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Since I created my account in 2009, nothing really happened on Twitter week-to-week, month-to-month, even year-to-year. Fundamentally, the site was mostly the s
by cowsup 3y ago
Since I created my account in 2009, nothing really happened on Twitter week-to-week, month-to-month, even year-to-year. Fundamentally, the site was mostly the same, and most new updates were either logical or non-important.
We went from using a third-party service to upload photos (TwitPic) to being able to upload directly to Twitter. And we'd go from having a certain shade of blue, to a different shade of blue; or the icons changed to be slightly thicker and redesigned, to contrast better. Nothing interesting. The only real "shocking" change came when tweets went from 140 characters to 280 a few years back, and then early last year Twitter announced that you'd be able to edit tweets. Those two things, in my view, were the biggest changes pre-Elon.
Now Elon owns it, and a lot of things are changing, like paying for verification, prioritizing paid users in replies, disabling Direct Messaging from free accounts by default, and other changes that, in my view, are geared more towards short-term profits as opposed to long-term platform trust and survival.
But overall, it doesn't impact my enjoyment of the service. I get the news on there faster than anywhere else. Twitter's got a great secret sauce in their algorithm that has yet to be destroyed. The moment I can't get immediate useful information from there, I'm not going to use it nearly as much. Until then, change the logo all you like...
- penaazv 3y agoI think the user base continues to make a difference in the app's likability and usage pattern. And yes, it may have been a bit too stagnant in the past, and some of the new changes are kinda good. But things have gone too far now. Changing the logo and name (with several other consequent changes) does seem to be a big deal to me. It's good to think bigger and try new things, but why at the cost of wiping off the very foundation of something awesome and legendary? I had a conversation with my elder brother who was telling me how Twitter was the origin of many of the mainstream things like followers, likes and whatnot. This seemingly overnight decision (from the track record) is upsetting at the very least.