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Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by reaperducer »

throwaway724 wrote: post #14

I 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…

What exactly are these people doing all day? I can't point to a single notable product innovation they've had in years.

Maybe Twitter is less caught up on the SV "gotta change/break something user-facing today to justify my job" treadmill than other tech companies. Or maybe the changes they make are on the back end. It's been a long time since I've seen a fail whale.

Considering the global societal impact that Twitter has, I'm surprised it has only 5,000 employees.

Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by aeturnum »

OedipusRex wrote: post #5
Zenst wrote: post #2

Interesting, 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…

You cannot prevent that and it cannot be policed.

It seems pretty trivial (though perhaps not scalable) to do some kind of image recognition that looks for the Fleet format and flag it for review / policing.

Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by celeritascelery »

anticensor wrote: post #39
throwaway724 wrote: post #14

I 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…

Editing tweets is against the core concept of Twitter.

I would consider “stories” against the core concept of twitter as well.

Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by chanmad29 »

anticensor wrote: post #39
throwaway724 wrote: post #14

I 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…

Editing tweets is against the core concept of Twitter.

why not have a edit history but still show the most recent tweet at the time?

Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by dang »

mdszy wrote: post #3

This 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.

That's in the article title. The problem was that it's longer than HN's 80 char limit. The submitted title was "Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' which disappear after 24 hours", which is a perfectly good way to shorten it to fit the limit. But maybe mentioning Stories is more important than mentioning 24 hours, so I've adjusted it for the time being.

Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

I wonder how much research went into the name "Fleets". To a lot of people, the first thing that comes to mind after "Fleets" is "enema" as in "Fleets enema".

I am not sure Twitter wants to evoke that image.

Then again, maybe this is Twitter acknowledging the toxic nature of Tweets and why they should be flushed out of the system quickly.

Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by bchillman »

throwaway724 wrote: post #14

I 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…

A lot of features never make it past experimentation and never see the light of day. The lifecycle of these experiments can last months and multiple code paths on mobile clients have to be carefully maintained. Failure to catch regressions on experiments cause unclean data and prevent experiments from re-starting until the new client reaches app stores.

Re: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

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Post by vcoelho »

TLLtchvL8KZ wrote: post #25
throwaway724 wrote: post #14

I 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…

I think all 5000 of them are busy "moderating" complaints. My account was suspended for 7 days for telling a youtuber (one I'd spoken with back and forth many times) that she had some clothes fluff in her armpit on pic she posted. Apparently that falls under harassment of a sexual nature and my appeal was denied within 15 minutes.

Without the context, I can see that remark being made by a creep
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