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That's brilliant! I really wish Twitter had a better way of letting me follow the conversation between these two accounts without having to read through a few d

That's brilliant! I really wish Twitter had a better way of letting me follow the conversation between these two accounts without having to read through a few dozen tweets from other random people (and if there is one and I missed it, please let me know)

kranner 9y ago
See this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/treeverse/aahmjdadniahaicebomlagekkcnlcila https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/treeverse/aahmjdad...
- tangue 9y ago
  Not related but : This is why twitter is failing : poor UX that a lone guy could fix with an extension.
frik 9y ago
I always wondered why Twitter has so much friction in its UI. I suppose it's on purpose, right? But what are they trying to achieve - more page views? Following conversations is so hard, one has to click around so many times.
- barrkel 9y ago
  Because they've outlawed competing UIs?
- firasd 9y ago
  It seems like internally they have a lot of 'product paralysis', unlike say Facebook which is happy to experiment with totally random things sometimes. That said over the last couple years things have been improving on the 'shipping new product/product changes' front for Twitter. Also to be fair when Twitter's user-facing UI seemed stagnant they were building the ad system, etc.
jolux 9y ago
I think Moments are sort of supposed to solve that?
digi_owl 9y ago
I seem to recall a service that could stitch together a tweet chain into a single image. Someone used it on a Doctorow discussion at some point i think. Problem is that since then Twitter introduced this modified retweet that break said chains, and not every client do a good job of embedding what tweet people are replying to on sending etc. On a completely different note, i see now that Twitter is trying to drum up attention for longer tweets. Something that is highly ironic given that over at SMS, where Twitter got its beginnings, stitching together multiple messages into a single long one has been a long solved "problem". Edit: Back to the question at hand i think you will get a reasonable result with this: https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum/status/907934878955696130 https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum/status/907934878955696130 And scroll downwards.

kranner 9y ago

See this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/treeverse/aahmjdadniahaicebomlagekkcnlcila https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/treeverse/aahmjdad...

tangue 9y ago
Not related but : This is why twitter is failing : poor UX that a lone guy could fix with an extension.

frik 9y ago

I always wondered why Twitter has so much friction in its UI. I suppose it's on purpose, right? But what are they trying to achieve - more page views? Following conversations is so hard, one has to click around so many times.

barrkel 9y ago
Because they've outlawed competing UIs?
firasd 9y ago
It seems like internally they have a lot of 'product paralysis', unlike say Facebook which is happy to experiment with totally random things sometimes. That said over the last couple years things have been improving on the 'shipping new product/product changes' front for Twitter. Also to be fair when Twitter's user-facing UI seemed stagnant they were building the ad system, etc.

jolux 9y ago

I think Moments are sort of supposed to solve that?

digi_owl 9y ago

I seem to recall a service that could stitch together a tweet chain into a single image. Someone used it on a Doctorow discussion at some point i think. Problem is that since then Twitter introduced this modified retweet that break said chains, and not every client do a good job of embedding what tweet people are replying to on sending etc. On a completely different note, i see now that Twitter is trying to drum up attention for longer tweets. Something that is highly ironic given that over at SMS, where Twitter got its beginnings, stitching together multiple messages into a single long one has been a long solved "problem". Edit: Back to the question at hand i think you will get a reasonable result with this: https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum/status/907934878955696130 https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum/status/907934878955696130 And scroll downwards.