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What could be changed about twitter to make this better? The entire design feeds right into this. I've heard it said that it was intended to be a place for good
by vlunkr 5y ago
What could be changed about twitter to make this better? The entire design feeds right into this. I've heard it said that it was intended to be a place for good discussion, but I really don't believe that. Good discussion isn't had 140 characters at a time. The whole point of the site is to give everyone a megaphone.
- Domenic_S 5y agoWhen everyone has a megaphone you only hear the people who are screaming next to you.
- throwkeep 5y agoA good start would be: Remove the algorithmic feed Remove the Trending bar Increase character length Ban witch hunts
- anigbrowl 5y agoI have tweets come up in chronological rather than selected order, and it's still crap on a regular bases because people are crap. There's not much you can do besides unfollowing people who are consistently annoying or vapid. I think retweets/quote tweets are a bigger problem. I can understand why a large number of people I follow might tweet about the same thing, but I don't need to see that thing reproduced 10 times.
- prawn 5y agoUse https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ - normal chronological feed and no trending anything. Then prune your following. I don't see any witch hunts; my feed is generally very positive.
- Jorengarenar 5y ago> I've heard it said that it was intended to be a place for good discussion What? No. Where had you heard that? Twitter was meant to be SMS in the Internet - for quick comments, quick news, quick updates, short notices, short etc.