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What's curious to me is how Twitter made so few improvements so slowly during the past few years, when its Chinese counterpart, Weibo, could release waves of ne
by hintymad 7y ago
What's curious to me is how Twitter made so few improvements so slowly during the past few years, when its Chinese counterpart, Weibo, could release waves of new features in fast pace. Not that all the new features are good in users' eyes, of course, but isn't fast iteration a motto in the Bay Area?
- robbyt 7y agoDon't you think that scaling to handle global growth is a feature?
- celim307 7y agoSure, but how come other features can't be released in parallel?
- woah 7y agoUsers throw a huge fit any time the slightest thing changes on twitter
- windsurfer 7y agoNew features can be made without changing the base service.
- qxnqd 7y agoI don't blame them. I signed up in 2009 and I deleted my account a few years ago because, well... Twitter now is not what I signed up for. But I guess they have to move on. Things change, but that does not mean I have to like the changes.
- mendelmaleh 7y agoCorrection: Users throw a huge fit any time on twitter
- giarc 7y agoExcept twitters DAU has been pretty steady at around 300-315 million since 2015. https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly...
- hintymad 7y agoYeah, and Twitter’s user base has not increased much. Scalability is not really that much of problem.
- Solvitieg 7y agoReminds me of the first part of Zawinski's law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." Twitter could add features until it reaches feature parity with Facebook. But then it's no longer Twitter. What defines a platform is its feature set. And by changing that you risk changing the platform.