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My 16 yr. old daughter explained to me two days ago why Twitter conversations are broken, how to fix them and that maybe we should design products together sinc
by Mc_Big_G 12y ago
My 16 yr. old daughter explained to me two days ago why Twitter conversations are broken, how to fix them and that maybe we should design products together since we can do it better than Twitter or that maybe she should send them her idea.
My response was, if you want to develop products together, let's do that. Second, Twitter probably has 50 product people who have all sat around and discussed her solution in detail and come to the conclusion that, for some reason we won't understand but that is probably better for Twitter, they shouldn't implement it. Most likely it has something to do with more views.
Then I welcomed her to the shitty reality that once a company gets the market share, they stop caring about a better experience for users and more about the bottom line OR maybe they're just stupid. After all, Twitter didn't have a single backup for something like the first year or two of existence.
- streblo 12y agoDon't just leave us hanging. What's the problem and how would she fix it?
- specialp 12y agoNot sure they are not caring or stupid. Perhaps they decided that Twitter is NOT a platform for conversations. I use Twitter as a real time platform for announcements, status updates, and just general sentiment. I do not really want to read debate there or conversations. If someone wants to discuss things there are other places to do that. As for their engineering problems at the beginning yes it was bad but then again they grew massively very quickly and they needed to come up with novel solutions at huge scale.