I always see Stories as an engagement ploy. Come back every day... or else FOMO.
Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
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#72I 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…
Hanging out on the roof or in meetings, waiting for the day to end.
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#73I started using Instagram stories quite heavily a couple weeks ago. For reference, I have ~32k followers on Twitter and ~700 on Instagram. Way more people have come up to me in real life and talked about a story of mine in the last month than people have ever come up to me to talk about a tweet. YMMV of course but I am bullish on the format and cannot wait for Fleets!
I've noticed something similar between Instagram and Facebook. However, I get much more engagement on Instagram stories (300 followers) than Facebook stories (1.8k followers). Like, consistency 10x more views and engagement. So there's more to it than just the format, I think.
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#74Interesting, 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.
Why can't it be prevented? Doesn't seem like they should have much difficulty recognizing that it was a screenshot of a "fleet", but other commenters make it sound like it's too difficult. So I'm wondering what others are taking into account that I'm missing.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
This feature might not be available in 3rd-party clients, like polls and cards.
If it's not on the website it'll be DOA.
Facebook usage is > 80% mobile, and they often don't bother adding features to the website. Do you have reason to believe that Twitter is different?
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#79tl;dr: Twitter doesn't give a flying f..k about their users.
Users: Twitter, ban the Nazis please, and let us edit tweets.
Twitter: Here, we take the stars and replace them with hearts.
Users: Twitter, please ban the Nazis, and let us edit tweets.
Twitter: Here's a totally messed up "redesign" filled with bugs that is mandatory except if you pretend to be an older browser (hint: extension GoodTwitter does that).
Users: Seriously, just please ban the Nazis and give us an edit option
Twitter: Hey, we're introducing AI to penalize sex workers, and giving the Nazis a tool to report tweets that has no real recourse for you, and if you appeal a ban you can't do anything, not even DM, for weeks until we may or may not look at the "offending" tweet because we are understaffed and our moderation slaves only speak your language roughly and don't get cultural context!
Usrrs: ... WTF man
Twitter: Hey, we're rolling out a feature we saw on Snapchat first and then was copied by Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram and it mostly utterly sucks there!
Seriously, how utterly detached is their product development team from the user base? And when are they finally going to offer a real API again?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Snapchat has all these problems and people still enjoy the ephemeral nature of them.
Snapchat at least warns you that someone screenshotted it.
It's not like that can be enforced in general, there will always be ways to duplicate it without notifying.