If you were the CEO of Twitter, what would you do in 2017 to make Twitter great again?
Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
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Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#2Get rid of the multimedia content types
Revert it back to pure text, which can include any type of url
Make the tweets always load chronologically
Make the interface faster loading and less JavaScripty
open up the API
basically, turn it back into #OldTwitter from 2010
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#3Get rid of the multimedia content types Revert it back to pure text, which can include any type of url Make the tweets always load chronologically Make the interface faster loading and less JavaScripty open up the API basically, turn it back into #OldTwitter from 2010
I'd leave the multimedia content types - they can be useful.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#4Get rid of the multimedia content types Revert it back to pure text, which can include any type of url Make the tweets always load chronologically Make the interface faster loading and less JavaScripty open up the API basically, turn it back into #OldTwitter from 2010
I'd leave the multimedia content types - they can be useful.
Can they really afford it?
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#5I want to watch the superbowl from twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/technology/with-nfl-deal-...
I have no idea how to watch the superbowl and I tried several apps. I had cable tv for like 1 year of highschool, and haven't felt any reason to purchase for myself since, but some things, like the superbowl / Olympics / World Cup etc. would be really great to be able to watch - no I'm not going to deal with cable / buying a TV just for 1-3 events yearly.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#6- Keep it as a pure and simple timeline. Don't show me tweets I may have missed. Make me chase them down.
- No character penalty for URLs
- Let people play with the data and metadata, exposing fake accounts is good for all
- Encourage bots to be bots
- Stump the chumps. Make this type of charade harder to pull off: @rea1DonaldTrump vs. @realDonaldTrump
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#7Limit restrictions on free speech as much as possible.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#8Charge $0.01 per tweet and this also suggest people be more succinct and thoughtful in their posts to make the service a little better
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#9Focus on engagement. Twitter's value is LIVE, but they've never leveraged push notifications and text messages in a way that makes sure you never miss out when important/relevant conversations are happening, so how are you supposed to know when there's interesting content to engage with?
Right now you can turn on notifications for a user's tweets, but that gives you push notifications for all of their tweets which is super annoying. Also, 99% of users don't know that exists.
Their recent move to make trending topics and search more visible in the iPhone app is a step in the right direction but they're a long ways off.
FOMO and live is how they're different from Facebook. I can always go back to Facebook at any time and they'll show me what I missed and I can still engage with it. With Twitter, the discussion has come and gone and I'm left out if I don't know it's happening.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#10Put more effort to engineering.
Facebook isn't great because of how it looks, but because they have React, hiphop (or what's the name now), things like that; and that allows them to scale and build and iterate more quickly.
Twitter had Bootstrap and that was great investment IMO... now the Bootstrap guys all left. Why?