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Twitter being toxic is one flaw that would be very complicated to address, but I'm talking about flaws at the feature level. The character limit in combination
by fleddr 5y ago
Twitter being toxic is one flaw that would be very complicated to address, but I'm talking about flaws at the feature level.
The character limit in combination with a completely unusable threading system basically makes any non-trivial discussion impossible.
Reply counts are buggy, and make no sense. Notification counters are broken. There's obvious bot armies. Reporting doesn't really work. Verification is broken.
Discoverability for "common" users, the non-influencers, is a major problem. They're all basically tweeting to a wall.
I could go on, but can sum it up as Twitter being far less usable and robust than it can be.
- MetaWhirledPeas 5y agoThanks for answering directly. I agree that Twitter's UI is not great for contextual reading (and therefore discussion), but I wonder if it might result in a greater diversity of content when browsing? A "better" UI might lead people down more rabbit holes and echo chambers. I'm really just playing devil's advocate of course, but I do have a comparison to draw: Reddit and Slashdot. Reddit, which is heavily popularity-based, arguably has a friendlier UI, but Slashdot's, once you come to understand it, seems much better at avoiding landslides of groupthink.