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I wonder what they will do once people start using http://the.links http://to.write.longer http://messages
Twitter's job right now is to figure out how to make their UX less niche and grow market share before they lose ground to the Whatsapps and Snapchats of the world, not to police edge cases that are better managed by simple social norms.
I wonder what they will do once people start using http://the.links http://to.write.longer http://messages
Anyone wanting to bypass the 140 limit is already doing so using an image with text in it. And anyone who spams really long messages using URLs is going to see their followers count drop pretty rapidly.
yep....
This is long over due. Can they fix this... When a Tweet starts with a @username, the only users who will see it in their timeline (other than the sender and the recipient) are those who follow both the sender and the recipient. ".@someone Hello I want to respond to you but in public!"
This is long over due. Can they fix this... When a Tweet starts with a @username, the only users who will see it in their timeline (other than the sender and the recipient) are those who follow both the sender and the recipient. ".@someone Hello I want to respond to you but in public!"
I agree because most people use Twitter where they replace a person's name with @personsname so they get a notification of it. Referring to people should work like this in my opinion. Honestly it should notify you even if an @ wasn't included similar to how hashtags essentially don't matter anymore. Edit: seems people disagree with me. You can't create a feature that limits natural parts of speech. It's just simply n…
In a 140 character limited context, they're already doing that.
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It wasn't really a blog though, right? Maybe it began as "a real-time blog aggregator, where blogs only have titles". I believe nowadays it's the network effect that keeps them, not the technology itself.
It was originally a blogging service - people would use it as an online diary (like livejournal) and follow personal friends. The broadcast/aggregation aspect came later.
But maybe this is discussed. I haven't RTFA.
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oblig pointing out of incorrect oblig correction. network effect[0] is absolutely correct. edit: for the downvotes- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
parent made an edit from affect to effect, so I guess my recommendation was taken to heart :)
The fact that it took this long for them to make such an obvious change speaks to how afraid they are (were?) to challenge core assumptions about the product.
Imo, it shows that, like many of us, they don't really understand why Twitter became so popular. That being the case, they don't know what they can and cannot safely change.
The fact that it took this long for them to make such an obvious change speaks to how afraid they are (were?) to challenge core assumptions about the product.