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People who don't use Twitter won't use Twitter to get status updates. There are many bad things about how Musk is running Twitter, but the UX for people not lo
by delecti 3y ago
People who don't use Twitter won't use Twitter to get status updates.
There are many bad things about how Musk is running Twitter, but the UX for people not logged in is pretty low on the list.
- muglug 3y agoI think it's pretty high actually? If I'm a random person who just heard that Joe Biden tweeted something, I can't see that tweet by going to his Twitter page. That's a pretty goddamned terrible experience right there. It's also not clear that I'm just seeing the most popular tweets — no other social network has that experience for logged-out users.
- delecti 3y agoIf I've heard someone tweeted something, it's almost always in the context of a news article which embeds the tweet. Even if the embed doesn't work, the direct link to the tweet should. I agree wholeheartedly that Twitter shouldn't be the primary vehicle for official communication from just about anything (except maybe Twitter itself).
- sirn 3y agoIn Japan, it’s not uncommon for companies or governing bodies to announce something _only_ on Twitter. This can be anything from websites announcing maintenance to a public safety announcement. For example, the district I live has a disaster announcement account on Twitter. At least for people here, using Twitter only for status updates while not logged in is a very common thing.
- JohnFen 3y ago> In Japan, it’s not uncommon for companies or governing bodies to announce something _only_ on Twitter. Not just in Japan. But the practice, much like the one of using Facebook or other such service exclusively, has always been a Very Bad Idea. Perhaps such entities will finally abandon it entirely.