>> Here's how it works. You flip on the feature in your settings; then when you open Twitter after being away for a while...
That's perfect, I need to flip it on, just how things like this should be added to anything!
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#12> To check it out now, just go into the timeline section of your settings and choose 'Show me the best Tweets first'. Am I the only one who can't find timeline section in settings? http://i.imgur.com/kKedYcn.png
I cannot find it either...
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#13Is that the annoying "While you were away" feature that I have been closing several times a day in the past weeks? I would like to disable it forever but there is no such option.
It does sound like another shitty attempt to show only things they deem relevant. I only follow a small number of people on Twitter _precisely so that I can see everything they post_.
I think it might make sense when I look at some of the trending things though. Then they really need to apply filters, especially to the spammers.
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#14This will surely end up like Facebook's feed, full of sponsored content. I wonder if Twitter would market this to individual users instead of just companies. What to make sure all your friends see your Tweet? Then spend 1 Twitter Stamp. You can buy 50 Twitter Stampfor $5. You can market it as an equivalent to a real stamp. You pay to ensure that your mail gets delivered, right? Well now you can also pay for your Tweet to be delivered. When information and communication is free, its only time an attention that is scarce. So you should be selling that.
Its social media micro transactions. 95% of people would never use it, but that 5% might use it a lot. But you have to make it transparent. You should only push it to people who actively use it. If it gets pushed for every Tweet, it will only highlight the system, which will destroy it.
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#15>> Here's how it works. You flip on the feature in your settings; then when you open Twitter after being away for a while... That's perfect, I need to flip it on, just how things like this should be added to anything!
It's a setting for now, but they are almost certainly planning to make it the default for all users after some testing and refinement. And ideally remove the setting altogether and make it standard behaviour.
Should work well for most users if executed right.
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#16Ha-ha, "important" tweets :)
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#17This is a terrible change. Twitter has been trying this feature out for a long time and every time a sample of it has come up in my Timeline I Dismiss it and when they ask "Did you like this?" I said "No."
The strength of Twitter is that the timeline is always current whenever I bring it up, and I can follow back in time clearly as I scroll through.
Messing with that is a huge mistake.
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#18This will surely end up like Facebook's feed, full of sponsored content. I wonder if Twitter would market this to individual users instead of just companies. What to make sure all your friends see your Tweet? Then spend 1 Twitter Stamp. You can buy 50 Twitter Stampfor $5. You can market it as an equivalent to a real stamp. You pay to ensure that your mail gets delivered, right? Well now you can also pay for your Twee…
> I wonder if Twitter would market this to individual users instead of just companies.
They won't, they don't want user's pennies. It's hyper growth or bust.
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#19People should check out GNU Social. Lots of people have migrated over to it (quitter.se being the biggest instance) with the whole #RIPTwitter controversy.
It's entirely open source, has a twitter-like frontend you can install, and is federated across instances so even if one node starts with changes you don't like you can switch to another one and still talk to the entire network. quitter.se is moderated against hatespeech and nsfw...but other instances aren't, with ones like freezepeach.xyz being explicitally for freedom of speech. And you can talk to anyone on any instance from anywhere.
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#20> We've already seen that people who use this new feature tend to Retweet and Tweet more, creating more live commentary and conversations
I really don't like this trend. The same thing happened with facebook with notifications. They looked at the data and figured that when people have notifications they tend to open the app more. Then started to send tens of unwanted notifications every day. (Which comes from eg. groups that I never joined, or games etc.) Result: hard blocking notifications from the mobile OS level.
I hope twitter doesn't follow the same path. (Actually they already do this at some level with 'your friend x & y liked tweet z' notifications)
These retention things just kill the apps that I already love. But since the trend is this way, it is probably working out for majority of people and not for me.