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Re: Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

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Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 1:47 PM UTC

rspeer wrote: post #189

mikekchar wrote: post #158

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I don't even need a search. Just give me a "Trending on Twitter" view. Then as I read through it, make the "Follow" button more obvious. As soon as I click "Follow" then sign me up (or get me to log in). Even when you go to a tweet from an external link when not logged in, 20% of the vertical height is taken up by a big blue "Sign up for Twitter (or log in)" thing. Just give me the content and lure me into hitting th…

The moment a topic becomes trending, it gets overrun with spam and shitposts by attention-seekers who know exactly where to find attention. That's not the best first impression.

Well then, that's another problem they've got to fix.

Re: Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

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Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 1:52 PM UTC

pinaceae wrote: post #151

why does twitter not have a default feed of the most favorited/RTd individual tweets? they only show trending topics/hashtag, but not a default feed. or have create a couple of curated best/of feeds. tech, sports, humor, etc. sort of like apple music, pandora, but for tweeters.

Single "most popular" feeds tend to the most mind numbingly banal. See G+ and its "What's Hot" problem. That stream is insultingly vapid.

A set of highly filtered feeds might be better. Still tough to pull off.

Re: Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

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Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

joaq wrote: post #23

Am I the only one who never really liked the whole concept of Twitter?

Neil Postman wrote everything that is wrong with Twitter in the 1980s. Jerry Mander in the 1970s.

I don't need it.

Re: Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

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Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

bluepostitnote wrote: post #75

icpmacdo wrote: post #11

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I think thats the main problem with Twitter, saturation. Its mainstream enough the regular people are not likely to jump on Twitter now if they already haven't.

And yet Facebook is still signing up users

My understanding was that FB growth stalled in the US./EU in 2012, slipping since. No?

Re: Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

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Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 2:23 PM UTC

Zigurd wrote: post #28

mmahemoff wrote: post #13

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Part of Twitter's challenge is that it's mainstream, but in a "write-only" way. Every celebrity, politician, religious leader, and journalist may be tweeting 24-7, but their followers aren't engaging in the same way they do on Facebook. A lot of users don't login, tweet, or spend much time on the site/app according to various reports. Chris Sacca said a lot about this recently. http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/…

Google will buy it because Google+ is Twitter minus the people.

G+ is a staggering number of peoole. 2.6 billion last I checked. Its simply that mist of them don't want to be there and say nothing. Engagement is by a fraction of a percent of the whole.

Re: Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

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Post by marcusgarvey » Sat, Aug 22, 2015, 12:18 PM UTC

Twitter has been a go-to for celebs and the powerful. The entertainment / fashion celebs are adopting Instagram in a huge way. Right now it's easy to have Insta. auto-post to Twitter, but it doesn't speak well of Tw growth. If other types of influential people follow suit, that will be another headache for Twitter.

Re: Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

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Post by thehal84 » Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 9:14 PM UTC

rspeer wrote: post #189

mikekchar wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't even need a search. Just give me a "Trending on Twitter" view. Then as I read through it, make the "Follow" button more obvious. As soon as I click "Follow" then sign me up (or get me to log in). Even when you go to a tweet from an external link when not logged in, 20% of the vertical height is taken up by a big blue "Sign up for Twitter (or log in)" thing. Just give me the content and lure me into hitting th…

The moment a topic becomes trending, it gets overrun with spam and shitposts by attention-seekers who know exactly where to find attention. That's not the best first impression.

Yep and sometime you just want the cliff notes on that trend without the spam.

This was why I put together our trending search feature @ http://theenginuity.com on the front-page.

We compile a list of social trends from our indexes of social data and make it easy to instantly figure out what's going on based on your language / region settings.