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Twitter keeps ignoring what its users want, and pushing ridiculous features nobody asked for. Keep the timeline chronological! Instead of injecting 12 hour old

by Zikes 10y ago

Twitter keeps ignoring what its users want, and pushing ridiculous features nobody asked for. Keep the timeline chronological! Instead of injecting 12 hour old tweets into my timeline randomly, give me a tab of popular tweets by people I follow. Give me more options to discover interesting discussions. Let me subscribe to or follow hashtags. Give me more options for filtering out the noise. Let me provide hashtags or keywords I don't care about. Back before Twitter made the decision to transition from a service to a platform, there were Twitter apps and clients that provided all kinds of great ways to interact with Twitter. But Twitter shut them down, and never bothered to integrate the things that made them great into the official Twitter platform or apps. Twitter's greatest potential is as a firehose of live data. Give users the tools to use and personalize that data and Twitter will become an indispensable part of people's daily lives.

rdiddly 10y ago
It does rather boggle the mind how staunchly they refuse to get the basics down. Recent initiatives are misplaced. It's like they're building a bicycle that has heated hand-grips, an espresso machine and a stereo system, but no seat. And then mr. visionary there, instead of noticing the failures in delivery of the core experience, instead starts asking "are we limiting our users' transportation options by making them be on a 2-wheeled self-propelled device?" In other words, hey let's reconsider the ONE THING WE'RE ACTUALLY ABOUT... the Tweet. I mean if you want to kill off the company there are easier ways.
cgag 10y ago
I found a tweet from 2015 via google and wanted to see the surrounding discussion. I couldn't find a way, so I tried just holding page down on the feed, trying to infinitely scroll my way to it. After around 5 minutes it stopped loading tweets. Oh well. edit: I meant this to be a reply to the "failure to handle the basics" post.
- Zikes 10y ago
  There's no way to refresh a tweet in the Android app to load new replies, either. Even if I leave that tweet and come back to it, it often only pulls up locally cached replies. And the replies are often neither chronological nor threaded in any meaningful way. I know the 140 character limit strongly discourages meaningful discussion, but I'm starting to think they believe that every single tweet should stand alone. That replies, likes, and retweets are nothing more than a metric to judge the quality or interestingness of an individual tweet.

by Zikes 10y ago

rdiddly 10y ago

It does rather boggle the mind how staunchly they refuse to get the basics down. Recent initiatives are misplaced. It's like they're building a bicycle that has heated hand-grips, an espresso machine and a stereo system, but no seat. And then mr. visionary there, instead of noticing the failures in delivery of the core experience, instead starts asking "are we limiting our users' transportation options by making them be on a 2-wheeled self-propelled device?" In other words, hey let's reconsider the ONE THING WE'RE ACTUALLY ABOUT... the Tweet. I mean if you want to kill off the company there are easier ways.

cgag 10y ago

I found a tweet from 2015 via google and wanted to see the surrounding discussion. I couldn't find a way, so I tried just holding page down on the feed, trying to infinitely scroll my way to it. After around 5 minutes it stopped loading tweets. Oh well. edit: I meant this to be a reply to the "failure to handle the basics" post.

Zikes 10y ago
There's no way to refresh a tweet in the Android app to load new replies, either. Even if I leave that tweet and come back to it, it often only pulls up locally cached replies. And the replies are often neither chronological nor threaded in any meaningful way. I know the 140 character limit strongly discourages meaningful discussion, but I'm starting to think they believe that every single tweet should stand alone. That replies, likes, and retweets are nothing more than a metric to judge the quality or interestingness of an individual tweet.