My take on it is Twitter just isn't, as a company, very good at making software. This is from external observation and a couple of reports from friends who used to work there.
This is of course anecdotal, but a friend of mine worked as an engineer at Twitter, and she said there was more focus on appearing as though they were industry leading engineers than there was focus on actual engineering quality.
After Twitter got hacked by a 17 year old who obtained admin access to accounts...I don't think it's anecdotal anymore.
I can’t use snap chat but apparently it’s very popular!
I'm not sure if I'm just turning into an old man prematurely or what, but "social" sites and apps usually turn too confusing for me to use around their second or third iteration. Facebook c. 2010 was too confusing for me, so I bounced off (from descriptions of what it was like a couple years before that, I think I'd have enjoyed it then). Twitter's been too confusing for me to understand for years, I can barely follo…
Yep I agree. I find FB the easiest of them all but I had to log off b/c of the politics. I'd rather be ignorant.
How can there be room for so many social media apps? One option is that all of them carve up the social media demographic in such a way that they have enough users to be profitable, but no majority. Another outcome is that teens are fickle, but if the platforms move from content creators to individuals, then it is no longer a social media platform and just the new MTV(s). I have no idea how this is going to shake out…
I think influences, celebrities and other people that teens look up to have a massive effect on these platforms. Look at clothes, streetwear brands that celebrities wear instantly become popular and sell out. The purpose of social media is to interact with your friends but also see celebrities and their pages. Even if a platform is better or cooler than another, nobodys going to switch because none of your friends are on it and there's no point. But if your favorite artist and a couple of popular youtubers get on, you might make an account to see their content. And then you see that some of your friends have it, and start using it more. After a while, maybe people stopped posting on the old social media app and you delete it because the people you follow aren't active on it anymore.
The division they have helped foment in the US is pretty impressive.
People have been this divided for a long time. Social Media just helps exhume it better. Started in the 50s.
How do you figure the '50s? Times we've been more united than we are right now seem more the exception than the norm, to me, since the founding of the country. Hell we haven't even had an elected member of the Federal government kill or attempt to kill someone over a political dispute in a while.
People will flock in where other people are. Unless Instagram gets a decent competitor, people will just get used to it.
This is the issue that made Facebook to big to fail now. They got everybody and their mom on it and now even with all the security, tracking and countless competitors, its nearly impossible to get people off it because of this simple fact - its where everybody they know are now.
I don't know. In Facebooks case it might as well be hurting them with younger demographics. When everyones mom is there the younger people just might want to go someplace else.
You don't necessarily care that everyone is at some place, just the group you are interested in keeping up with.
WeChat has lots of things hidden behind low impression entrypoints. You can explore them when you want. Its primary features, chat and moments, are dead simple, like WhatsApp. Facebook on the other hand, are mixing lots of stuff into their main feed, making the experience horrible for everyone
Marketing/business side always demand prime real-estate to push 'features' instead of just blending them into the UI. This is extra-apparent on mobile apps but FB did it on their website for years (I haven't seen what it looks like recently). It's not easy to say no as a designer but the best companies are the ones most capable of keeping things as focused on primary UX flows as possible. TikTok figured this out by m…
Let’s ship features! To heck with what users may need or want!