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The New Failwhale: Twitter Homepage

22 points by tortilla 17y ago

redorb 17y ago
I like your popular tags better. Twitter went away from "tell us what your doing" - to a more - "share what is happening anywhere in the world" - I think they and everyone is tired of "Froot loops were great this morning, now in I-40
- feverishaaron 17y ago
  Still, the whole point of the service is to broadcast "you" to the world. That is, what's happening around you, affecting you etc. To that regard, I think this guy's redesign conveys that message better to someone who has no idea what twitter is. People who already have a twitter account will almost never see this page. Thus, it should be focused entirely on acquiring new users.
  - jfornear 17y ago
    Like Mystalic said above, Twitter is purposely trying to get away from the status updates.
    - feverishaaron 17y ago
      Then, what is Twitter without status updates? I don't see how they can "get away from them". An Iranian at a rally is just as much "updating their status" as they 35 year old who hasn't left their basement all day.
Mystalic 17y ago
The author completely misses the point of the redesign. The point is to brand Twitter AWAY from being a tool to update your friends and towards being the world's cultural epicenter. There's a reason Twitter deliberately took away the "you" and focused on the world. They're trying to convince the people who don't think they have anything to say to join. It's easy to not use Twitter because you have nothing to say. It's harder to ignore Twitter if it's THE place to go for all of the world's events.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  There is precious little news that I want to receive in real time, for me the s/n ratio on twitter is simply too large. Even the 'best' twitterers can't seem to control the urge to spout junk on a fairly regular basis. Too much stream-of-consciousness for my taste. Better filtering would go a long way towards making twitter more usable for the general public.
  - eli 17y ago
    shrug My colleague does a twitter search on his subway stop every morning. A bunch of tweets complaining about crowded platforms means he takes a different route. I like the redesign. It's about time they recongized that using the great twitter feed is more useful to most people than personal microblogging.
grandalf 17y ago
I like the new home page, but why don't I see it when I'm logged in? It seems that someone might be confused by twitter since the search focus disappears after you create an account.
fyates 17y ago
The search is absolutely useless without the status updates. I don't mind them getting away from the status updates some but they cannot completely abandon them.
clemesha 17y ago
He says this makes Twitter more confusing for new users, and I'd argue that is becoming less important. My Grandma knows about Twitter, which puts the total number of websites she can list offhand to 2, the other site being Google.

22 points by tortilla 17y ago

I like your popular tags better. Twitter went away from "tell us what your doing" - to a more - "share what is happening anywhere in the world" - I think they and everyone is tired of "Froot loops were great this morning, now in I-40

feverishaaron 17y ago
Still, the whole point of the service is to broadcast "you" to the world. That is, what's happening around you, affecting you etc. To that regard, I think this guy's redesign conveys that message better to someone who has no idea what twitter is. People who already have a twitter account will almost never see this page. Thus, it should be focused entirely on acquiring new users.
- jfornear 17y ago
  Like Mystalic said above, Twitter is purposely trying to get away from the status updates.
  - feverishaaron 17y ago
    Then, what is Twitter without status updates? I don't see how they can "get away from them". An Iranian at a rally is just as much "updating their status" as they 35 year old who hasn't left their basement all day.

Mystalic 17y ago

The author completely misses the point of the redesign. The point is to brand Twitter AWAY from being a tool to update your friends and towards being the world's cultural epicenter. There's a reason Twitter deliberately took away the "you" and focused on the world. They're trying to convince the people who don't think they have anything to say to join. It's easy to not use Twitter because you have nothing to say. It's harder to ignore Twitter if it's THE place to go for all of the world's events.

jacquesm 17y ago
There is precious little news that I want to receive in real time, for me the s/n ratio on twitter is simply too large. Even the 'best' twitterers can't seem to control the urge to spout junk on a fairly regular basis. Too much stream-of-consciousness for my taste. Better filtering would go a long way towards making twitter more usable for the general public.
- eli 17y ago
  shrug My colleague does a twitter search on his subway stop every morning. A bunch of tweets complaining about crowded platforms means he takes a different route. I like the redesign. It's about time they recongized that using the great twitter feed is more useful to most people than personal microblogging.

grandalf 17y ago

I like the new home page, but why don't I see it when I'm logged in? It seems that someone might be confused by twitter since the search focus disappears after you create an account.

fyates 17y ago

The search is absolutely useless without the status updates. I don't mind them getting away from the status updates some but they cannot completely abandon them.

clemesha 17y ago

He says this makes Twitter more confusing for new users, and I'd argue that is becoming less important. My Grandma knows about Twitter, which puts the total number of websites she can list offhand to 2, the other site being Google.