Well, since Snapchat is a glorified nude-sharing app, it makes sense for the use case.
Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
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Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
#12Interesting, will be interesting how they are received and utilised. Whilst they don't allow reshares, it is common for people to screenshot a tweet and share that screenshot - this won't prevent that and wonder how Twitter will police that. Also wonder if they will allow customisable expiration (up to a point), say 36 hours etc. Or allow shorter duration posts, say an hour for spot promotions - which would be a grea…
Snapchat has all these problems and people still enjoy the ephemeral nature of them.
Snapchat at least warns you that someone screenshotted it.
Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
#13Interesting, will be interesting how they are received and utilised. Whilst they don't allow reshares, it is common for people to screenshot a tweet and share that screenshot - this won't prevent that and wonder how Twitter will police that. Also wonder if they will allow customisable expiration (up to a point), say 36 hours etc. Or allow shorter duration posts, say an hour for spot promotions - which would be a grea…
Snapchat has all these problems and people still enjoy the ephemeral nature of them.
Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when someone screenshots their content, will be interesting to see if Twitter does the same.
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#14I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these people doing all day?
I can't point to a single notable product innovation they've had in years. And they continue to ignore the drumbeat of user asking for an edit button, and are completely unable to come up with any kind of reasonable solution to the abuse or bot problems.
I don't know Kayvon personally, but what exactly is wrong with Twitter that it's so bad and slow at product development? This should be #5000 on their list of things to do.
Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
#15This will be popular, and might even replace regular usage, as Stories have in Instagram. It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual. It will help counter Twitter getting increasingly LinkedIn-like.
I made an app called Blink that did exactly this a few years ago: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/blink. Build it and they will come, not :)
Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
#16This sounds almost like they're trying to replicate "Stories" from other social networks. - Shows up at the top of one's feed, more prominent. - Expires after a certain time.
Expiring tweets seem interesting, and it would be interesting to see how they handle that alongside their recent change to "remind" people about things they've missed.
I've just deleted my account because their notifications keep spamming me with reminders "Have you seen this tweet: ...". Those fake notifications are not things I care about, and are impossible to disable, the most you can do is say "Show me less of these" which never seems to actually result in a change.
Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
#17This will be popular, and might even replace regular usage, as Stories have in Instagram. It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual. It will help counter Twitter getting increasingly LinkedIn-like. I made an app called Blink that did exactly this a few years ago: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/blink . Build it and they will come, not :)
> It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual.
Which will, I suspect, drive analytics enhancements to help get under one's skin and/or sell users more junk. The tweet disappearing from the user-facing view will not prevent its being dissected and its information stored. And the point will be likely missed by most users...
Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
#18I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these people doing all day? I can't point to a single notable product innovation they've had in years. And they continue to ignore the drumbeat of user asking for an edit button, and are completely unable to come up with any kind of reasonable soluti…
They've done quite a bit on the product front, although it's fair to question the utility to average users:
- Increased tweet length to 280 chars
- Tweet threads
- GIF integration
- Multiple UI revisions of desktop and mobile apps
There's also been a fair amount of work on ads and security, although these changes will be less apparent to most users.
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#19what I would to see from twitter is something for "blog" tweets - a "single" tweet spread across 3-30 individual tweets. the structure of individual tweets makes them terribly hard to read, but I feel like I've seen enough of them to say it's something in their interest to support
Even series-tweets are more information dense than your average blog post. I think that's their main appeal really. Putting a blogging function on twitter which then ends up as long posts appearing between regular tweets might make it much less possible to quickly 'parse' Twitter for a dopamine hit.
I'm sure there are ways to counter my concern, but honestly why do it of things work well for them?
Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
#20I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these people doing all day? I can't point to a single notable product innovation they've had in years. And they continue to ignore the drumbeat of user asking for an edit button, and are completely unable to come up with any kind of reasonable soluti…
They've done quite a bit on the product front, although it's fair to question the utility to average users: - Increased tweet length to 280 chars - Tweet threads - GIF integration - Multiple UI revisions of desktop and mobile apps There's also been a fair amount of work on ads and security, although these changes will be less apparent to most users.
None of those things strike as 1) important or 2) indicative of a high-performing product development team given their size. But we can agree to disagree!