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interesting how Twitter is evolving from a 140-char microblog platform into a mishmash of different vaguely related and tenuously connected services/features:
by adamrezich 4y ago
interesting how Twitter is evolving from a 140-char microblog platform into a mishmash of different vaguely related and tenuously connected services/features:
- main timeline
- direct messages
- Spaces (audio chatrooms)
- Communities (sub-timelines)
- Newsletters (this still exists? will it, if Notes gains traction?)
- and now Notes
and probably more I forgot. I wonder if they'll eventually go full-circle and add a Podcasts feature. but I just use Twitter for its core timeline feature and rarely ever engage with the rest of it. I'm not sure if Notes looks like a necessarily appealing place to post longer-form content as opposed to Substack, Medium, etc.
- dariusj18 4y agoEvery walled garden needs to plant their own flowers. It's an unfortunate side effect of profit motive and keeping people on the platform rather than integrations and openness.
- quickthrower2 4y agoNot necessarily just the company’s profit motive. Individual careers require this sort of stuff to be done.
- adamrezich 4y agoexactly—why is Newsletters still a thing if they're working on Notes now? shouldn't those two be one and the same? walled gardens planting their own flowers is unsurprising at this point, but when one goes from planting its own flowers to planting competing plants in the same space...
- holler 4y agoAgree, but I don't think it necessarily has to be that way. All of these social sites have a core competency/use case, but once they start tacking on features as an effect of the profit motive, it starts to dilute the experience. Working on my own site and planning to keep it strictly focused on the core value prop.
- sydthrowaway 4y agoYou forgot porn, how much of their revenue is derived from adult content creators?