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I got on twitter on day two or three (I'm user 1019 I think) and... it was incredible boring back then. I mean really, really boring. I stopped using it immedia
by wiremine 11y ago
I got on twitter on day two or three (I'm user 1019 I think) and... it was incredible boring back then. I mean really, really boring. I stopped using it immediately.
Eventually I picked it back up, once there were more accounts I found useful/interesting.
Today they have the opposite problem: too much disconnected content: my feed is filled with 100s of random, disconnected headlines, links to top 10 lists, random comments from fiends, etc.
I don't feel overwhelmed, but it's hard to _casually_ engage twitter and feel edified by the experience.
I think to win the long run, Twitter has to be more valuable than just a seemly chaotic feed of information rushing by. They have never solved this problem well. At least, not for the casual user.
If they did, I think they would see their user adoption rate increase. That doesn't solve the monetization problem alone, but it would sure would help.
Update: fixed some spelling.
- Ras_ 11y agoThese best RT's of the day/week and other automated lists seem not unlike Facebook's excessive Game app messages. They were a proper nuisance until you became able to hide them. Twitter needs some tools for self-curating. For example some manual filter that you could teach which kind of messages to hide. Vast number of people will never adopt any third party options.