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Making the UX not shit is a great start. Twitter is really an unpleasant site to use for following discussions of any sort. When I click a thread-view for a p

Making the UX not shit is a great start. Twitter is really an unpleasant site to use for following discussions of any sort. When I click a thread-view for a post, I want to see a clear tree-view of all of the posts and replies like any other sane website, not the current flat-layout bullshit wherein you have no clue what the chronology of anything is, or who is responding to what. There are a lot of good ideas in this thread for how twitter can refocus and monetize itself, but I think before all that you need to make it a site that more people enjoy using beyond its original use case of "waiting at the airport -- hmu".

paulgb 10y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a Chrome extension to provide a tree view: https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse/ https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse/ (It's more a visualization style than a reddit-like threaded conversation interface, but it might accomplish what you are referring to)
- erikig 10y ago
  Thanks for sharing - this is pretty good. I'd recommend including the actual text next to or below the user's avatar instead of in a separate view.
marssaxman 10y ago
I've never been a twitter user myself, but every now and then I end up following a link to a Twitter discussion, only to bounce right off again because I can't figure out what's supposed to be happening. Who is saying what to whom, in what order, in response to what? I can't tell. I imagine that there must be some context-literacy I don't have, which regular Twitter users somehow pick up on; or, possibly, Twitter only makes sense if you're following the stream of posts in real time.
- kbart 10y ago
  Exactly the same for me. Every time I wanted to use Twitter I ended up confused by all that mess and closed it. Is it so hard to add tools (filters, permissions etc.) for more advanced users to create the experience they want? Twitter makes a wonderful media to follow interesting persons and getting breaking news, but probably 99.9% of its content for me is spam or uninteresting, annoying mess that I have no convenient way to avoid.

paulgb 10y ago

Shameless plug: I wrote a Chrome extension to provide a tree view: https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse/ https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse/ (It's more a visualization style than a reddit-like threaded conversation interface, but it might accomplish what you are referring to)

erikig 10y ago
Thanks for sharing - this is pretty good. I'd recommend including the actual text next to or below the user's avatar instead of in a separate view.

marssaxman 10y ago

I've never been a twitter user myself, but every now and then I end up following a link to a Twitter discussion, only to bounce right off again because I can't figure out what's supposed to be happening. Who is saying what to whom, in what order, in response to what? I can't tell. I imagine that there must be some context-literacy I don't have, which regular Twitter users somehow pick up on; or, possibly, Twitter only makes sense if you're following the stream of posts in real time.

kbart 10y ago
Exactly the same for me. Every time I wanted to use Twitter I ended up confused by all that mess and closed it. Is it so hard to add tools (filters, permissions etc.) for more advanced users to create the experience they want? Twitter makes a wonderful media to follow interesting persons and getting breaking news, but probably 99.9% of its content for me is spam or uninteresting, annoying mess that I have no convenient way to avoid.