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Forcing the typing a command character on a ten-digit phone pad might have caused enough friction to have put Twitter on a very different trajectory early on. G
by SoftwareMaven 14y ago
Forcing the typing a command character on a ten-digit phone pad might have caused enough friction to have put Twitter on a very different trajectory early on. Given how long Twitter has had this feature and how little issue it's caused, I would argue it was good product design.
- hesselink 14y agoPerhaps duplicating the first letter would have been a good idea. So 'gget', 'ffav' etc.
- treetrouble 14y agogood design implies that there's some advantage to its use
- tedunangst 14y ago? I can use a simple command to request tweets on my dumb phone. How is that not an advantage?
- treetrouble 14y agoIs it not still simple with a single character prefix?
- tedunangst 14y agoDepends on your userbase. Completely in band normal English command messages probably fits many users' mental model.