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What has Twitter innovated on in the past decade? While I don't agree with the way Elon has been making this move, it's sure looking like he's trying to clear
by SkyPuncher 4y ago
What has Twitter innovated on in the past decade?
While I don't agree with the way Elon has been making this move, it's sure looking like he's trying to clear the place out so he can establish a new culture. These policy changes are likely to scare mobile, top-performers off to other companies. This likely clears out a lot of internal dissent and heal digging to make room for new "top performers".
I wouldn't be shocked if we see new "top talent" hires in 3 to 6 months then _actual_ new innovation in 6 to 12 months.
- CrimpCity 4y ago> What has Twitter innovated on in the past decade? They basically stole clubhouses’ thunder with spaces and tbh clubhouse has lost a lot of it’s shine. Now did Twitter actually innovate? I would say not really but they did reimplement the wheel and so far seems to be working for them. I’d say the execution still counts as being innovative.
- zen21 4y agoClubhouse lost its shine on its own. It simply didn’t scale on a social level and became a cesspool of crypto scams and conspiracy theorists looking for marks.
- CrimpCity 4y agoBoth things can be true at the same time. I dropped of CH because the synchronicity was too much for me. But apparently other people still use Twitter spaces.
- jansan 4y agoWhat has Twitter innovated on in the past decade? Bootstrap
- madeofpalk 4y agoPast decade. Bootstrap is 11 years old.
- ok123456 4y agoIt still gets updates.
- mrits 4y agoThat is kind of the opposite of innovating, no? The idea that the company is depending on prior innovation? Unless you are saying the updates contain innovation.
- madeofpalk 4y agoI don't think Twitter has had anything to do with Bootstrap for a significantly long time. fat and mdo left twitter 10 years ago.
- SkyPuncher 4y agoSetting aside the timeframe. Bootstrap is not a revenue generating function for them.
- jansan 4y agoI admit I had the timeframe wrong, but whether it generates revenue was not part of the question.
- SkyPuncher 4y agoFair enough. I should have stipulated my point as "customer innovation". It seems like Twitter is facing the same issue FB is. Behind the scenes innovation, but not customer facing.
- petsormeat 4y agoCan't tell if this is snark, but gotta hand it to the Twitter Bootstrap project for making off-the-shelf CSS libraries acceptable.
- antisthenes 4y agoThey increased the message size from 140 to 280 characters, allowing people to generate double the outrage with almost the same network load.
- kevinventullo 4y agoThey launched the predecessor to the current hottest social media app but killed it before it could gain any popularity. So that’s a new way to shoot yourself in the foot.
- rco8786 4y ago> They launched They bought Vine. Story still holds though.
- code_duck 4y agoTwitter acquired Vine before Vine launched. Okay, a citation: I didn’t realize this either, but there are many articles about it from 2012, such as: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-twitter-bought-vine-before-launch-raheem-m-abid https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-twitter-bought-vine-befor... “Why Twitter Bought Vine Before Launch” Or https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-acqui-hires-pre-launch-video-sharing-startup-vine https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-acqui-hires-pre-launch-v... “Twitter acquires pre-launch video sharing startup Vine”
- fdgsdfogijq 4y agoI agree, high performers can actually damage innovation by stopping it. Since they own major systems, they control how and what gets done.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoWhy would any competent engineer sign up to work in the environment Musk has created? I’ve seen no upside to employees offered, only brutal management and benefit reduction with a promise of hard work for less.
- hiq 4y agoWhy would it be any different from his other companies? I wouldn't apply, but if some people are willing to work at Tesla, surely some are also willing to work at Musk-Twitter?
- fnordpiglet 4y agoBecause Twitter isn’t building space ships or changing transportation, and the expected culture and benefits of a software media company vs manufacturing company are very different.
- boole1854 4y agoMusk attracts engineers by selling a vision. Reusable rockets to make humanity an interstellar species. Electric vehicles to free humanity from fossil fuels. Humanoid robots. Neuralink. And on it goes. For Twitter, the vision Musk is selling is that "it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence". [1] That might not be your cup of tea, or you might believe Musk is too petulant a leader to bring that vision to fruition. But it is an aspiration that will make some people excited and willing to put in the hard work Musk is demanding. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728
- rurp 4y ago>For Twitter, the vision Musk is selling is that "it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence". Unless you make fun of the owner, that gets you banned ASAP. Also, I don't think most people associate a massive increase in hate speech and harassment with a healthy town square. Threatening paying customers who show any reticence is an "interesting" way to grow a business. It's early still, but this has basically been the vision pitch so far.