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> Innovation rapidly plateaus Twitter shipped more features in the last 6 months than in the last 10 years. And that’s with a quarter of the staff too.

DoesntMatter22 4y ago
I know. What innovation has twitter done in the 5 years prior? Not too much
- nicenewtemp84 4y ago
  Someone above was genuinely impressed by allowing alt text on images.
- nemothekid 4y ago
  Wasn't Spaces under the previous management? That said, I don't know what bar for "feature over the last 6 months" is actually meaningful. The problem with Twitter was never the user-facing product, it was the thing that actually made them money - the ads. Twitter usage exploded under the Trump years while revenue lagged. The product that Twitter should be innovating isn't user facing.
  - drexlspivey 4y ago
    They just added ads in the tweet replies (as opposed to just the main feed) and will be giving a percentage of the revenue to the person starting the thread.
- drexlspivey 4y ago
  I can only think of Spaces, doubling the character limit and something about NFTs on profiles.
ctvo 4y ago
Do we count turning on something half-baked, finding bugs, turning it off, it wasn't really off, turning it back on later with 3/4th the promised feature 5-6 feature releases? Or maybe we're counting a feature that was developed but not released for N (reasonable) reasons, now discounting those N reasons and releasing it anyway as a signal that there's some sort of innovation occurring?
scarab92 4y ago
Indeed. Shipping new changes is actually the reason these glitches are occurring.
nimih 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you're wrong even just going by (edit: pre-2022Q4) features listed on the wikipedia page[1], and that appears to leave out a number of cool and useful things such as polls and the extensive support for image alt-text. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Twitter
DonHopkins 4y ago
Like the emergency kill switch that shut down all of Twitter Spaces for the entire platform when Elon was asked a single pointed question he didn't want to answer. https://fortune.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-shuts-down-twitter-spaces-for-the-entire-social-media-platform-after-arguing-with-journalists-on-one-twitter-space/ https://fortune.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-shuts-down-twitter-...
Aperocky 4y ago
there isn't a much better analogy to the interchangeability of bug and feature than this comment.
piva00 4y ago
So innovation is just shipping new features? Don't really believe that's a great metric to track something so subjective, I believed innovation had a bit more weight than "let's do something and ship it! Whatever!".
- drexlspivey 4y ago
  Please explain how the old twitter innovated by your definition
  - piva00 4y ago
    I didn't state anywhere that old Twitter was innovating, that's your strawman to beat :)
amitrip 4y ago
and you believe that right? jesus

DoesntMatter22 4y ago

I know. What innovation has twitter done in the 5 years prior? Not too much

nicenewtemp84 4y ago
Someone above was genuinely impressed by allowing alt text on images.
nemothekid 4y ago
Wasn't Spaces under the previous management? That said, I don't know what bar for "feature over the last 6 months" is actually meaningful. The problem with Twitter was never the user-facing product, it was the thing that actually made them money - the ads. Twitter usage exploded under the Trump years while revenue lagged. The product that Twitter should be innovating isn't user facing.
- drexlspivey 4y ago
  They just added ads in the tweet replies (as opposed to just the main feed) and will be giving a percentage of the revenue to the person starting the thread.
drexlspivey 4y ago
I can only think of Spaces, doubling the character limit and something about NFTs on profiles.

ctvo 4y ago

Do we count turning on something half-baked, finding bugs, turning it off, it wasn't really off, turning it back on later with 3/4th the promised feature 5-6 feature releases? Or maybe we're counting a feature that was developed but not released for N (reasonable) reasons, now discounting those N reasons and releasing it anyway as a signal that there's some sort of innovation occurring?

scarab92 4y ago

Indeed. Shipping new changes is actually the reason these glitches are occurring.

nimih 4y ago

I'm pretty sure you're wrong even just going by (edit: pre-2022Q4) features listed on the wikipedia page[1], and that appears to leave out a number of cool and useful things such as polls and the extensive support for image alt-text. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Twitter

DonHopkins 4y ago

Like the emergency kill switch that shut down all of Twitter Spaces for the entire platform when Elon was asked a single pointed question he didn't want to answer. https://fortune.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-shuts-down-twitter-spaces-for-the-entire-social-media-platform-after-arguing-with-journalists-on-one-twitter-space/ https://fortune.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-shuts-down-twitter-...

Aperocky 4y ago

there isn't a much better analogy to the interchangeability of bug and feature than this comment.

piva00 4y ago

So innovation is just shipping new features? Don't really believe that's a great metric to track something so subjective, I believed innovation had a bit more weight than "let's do something and ship it! Whatever!".

drexlspivey 4y ago
Please explain how the old twitter innovated by your definition
- piva00 4y ago
  I didn't state anywhere that old Twitter was innovating, that's your strawman to beat :)

amitrip 4y ago

and you believe that right? jesus