Part of the problem is the sheer amount of racism and harassment. How many times do twitter eggs and other hate speech peddlers get reported without anything happening? Why does Twitter drag their feet over this? Nobody will miss the neo-nazis.
Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
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#52> Twitter began investing heavily in video, aiming to draw a more mainstream set of users and premium advertising deals What's with this whole "pivot to video" trend among websites? Why is it preferred to text which is probably easier to write, needs less network and is more accessible than a large number of videos (which don't have captions)?
Video ads pay much more.
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#53Twitter is so disappointingly annoying to use. Reply threads are a pain. Tweetstorms get old. And all too often there is way too much spam. However, there are amazing communities of people sharing interesting content and having great conversations. Twitter needs to realize that there value prop is the community using it and not the app itself. They need to make radical design and product changes to make for a better…
Scrolling is very inefficient on Twitter - to read the equivalent of a single screen on reddit or HN means to scroll 20x more on T. When reading comments I have to be very careful not to click outside the column because it gets closed and position lost. Another big one - you can't filter out the political crap from the domain specific stuff.
When reading comments I have to be very careful not to click outside the column because it gets closed and position lost.
That's also my experience - I have to be very careful not to click on anything, lest I lose my position on the thread. I don't understand how the developers themselves don't get frustrated about this, frankly.
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#54Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers. I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" che…
> Anyone still actually having a good time on this service?
Not good time but there are some communities and social graphs active there that you cannot avoid if you work in specific fields. For example, computer security.
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#55Twitter is amazing, but it needs to ditch the 140 chars, improve discoverability, and get more modest in its expectations. Twitter is an interest network, where you follow interesting people and read what they write, re-tweet what they write and sometimes interact with them. Given that a lot of people don't have that much interest in things that can be expressed in Twitter form, Twitter has a low ceiling on how big i…
I think I'd probably stop using Twitter (the only social network I use) if they ditched the 140 character format. I don't want to see long form facebook style posts there, its literally their differentiation.
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#56Are there any desktop or self-hosted tools designed to archive my Twitter feed? Every time I remember seeing something useful it is nearly impossible to get back to.
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#57> Twitter began investing heavily in video, aiming to draw a more mainstream set of users and premium advertising deals What's with this whole "pivot to video" trend among websites? Why is it preferred to text which is probably easier to write, needs less network and is more accessible than a large number of videos (which don't have captions)?
Video ads pay much more.
And autoplay video jukes the stats to make it look like the consumers are more engaged in video ads than they are in banners.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean interact is a strong term here. You send 0-140 characters towards them and they get to send 0-140 back. Yes I'm sure sometimes meaningful conversations happen, but I doubt that is the norm. I get to interact with a rock star if I hang out near the exit door after the concert. I can shout at them and (s)he might say something back. If I'm lucky and it's a cool musician we might be able to have a brief conversat…
You've clearly never used the product in a while because you can DM more than 140 characters. Who is to say the value of "meaningful" is dependent on the number of characters? You have no idea what you are talking about. Go to a speech? What if you're in another country? What if their email isn't publicly available? What if they prefer to communicate via twitter precisely because its so low-stakes and informal? I kno…
Personal attacks are not allowed in HN. Your last line crosses over what's acceptable here.
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#59Twitter needs to: 1. Charge businesses that tweet $20/month. ok, so you are a small business and can't afford it? nobody will miss you and you will contribute less noise to Twitter anyway. 2. limit the number of links you can tweet a day based on your overall popularity. you can still post an unlimited number of replies and tweets with no links. 3. show less tweets from unverified accounts that never reply or interac…
How do you filter "businesses" from individual users, small, non-commercial groups or anything else, really? Ask people to register their identity with the government and then double-check? Good luck!
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#60Twitter is so disappointingly annoying to use. Reply threads are a pain. Tweetstorms get old. And all too often there is way too much spam. However, there are amazing communities of people sharing interesting content and having great conversations. Twitter needs to realize that there value prop is the community using it and not the app itself. They need to make radical design and product changes to make for a better…
Does anyone know what the status of the Twitter API is?
I remember there being a kerfuffle about Twitter placing limitations on it, but is it still possible to make a custom client that unifies, say, Twitter and Mastodon?