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Twitter is Pivoting
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#82An experienced Twitter user would know to add a “.” at the beginning of his message so that his followers would see it. Signed up for twitter on the day it launched(I think) and did not know that. Twitter is a painful product to use. It isn't made for humans. Twitter doesn't have to show a username in tweets; they can easily translate it to the name. Twitter doesn't have to require each reply to appear like an out of…
140 characters annoys me when I have something long to say, but overall it's something that I really like about it, and I know plenty of people who agree with me. I don't know if they'd do better by dropping the limit, but saying it's a bad limit is definitely subjective not objective.
Email annoys me when I want to have a real-time conversation with my mother - which is why, when that happens, I use the medium that's intended for that sort of thing.
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#83An experienced Twitter user would know to add a “.” at the beginning of his message so that his followers would see it. Signed up for twitter on the day it launched(I think) and did not know that. Twitter is a painful product to use. It isn't made for humans. Twitter doesn't have to show a username in tweets; they can easily translate it to the name. Twitter doesn't have to require each reply to appear like an out of…
Sorry, but it's painfully obvious from your post that you don't actually use twitter, at least not regularly enough to "get it".
- user names are a huge part of what makes Twitter interesting, imho it's not meant to be the type of service with real names
- replies do get grouped as complete conversations, and it's been that way for a while now.
- lists really aren't that hard to use, I don't know what your problem with it is
- and the 140 char thing is your craziest point... 140 chars is exactly what makes twitter so great and so interesting, if the messages were longer it would drastically affect how the service works and feels.
Basically what I'm getting at is that Twitter is already fantastic for users... unfortunately it isn't making them enough money, which is why they're changing so many thing about the service, but let's not pretend they're changing things because the user experience is so bad... if the experience was so bad, they wouldn't have the millions and millions of users that they have now.
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#84they're just gonna concentrate on content/media sharing via url, and that isn't necessarily big-company driven. people sharing links and talking about them etc.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/Why-do-some-tweets-have-a-per... i knew twitter was broken but this takes the cake. i have been using twitter for years and had no idea.
Before the rise of Twitter's own official client, it really was an elegant way to handle the problem of having a minimal interface (i.e. no reply button). But yes, it was basically something you wouldn't "get" unless someone told you, or you used twitter enough to eventually notice that someone's direct-tweet did not make it into your overall timeline. And the many screwups with direct-messages is pretty well known..…
Aha, until I read about the SMS issue, I'd forgetten how incompetent Twitter was in the past. The whole 'scaling' debacle, etc.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, maybe. Twitter got started after Facebook, but I don't remember seeing Twitter talking about Facebook.
That's because Twitter didn't know what they were or were trying to become. They probably didn't see themselves as a competitor to Facebook, but as a complement.
Facebook didn't try to become Twitter-like until later on, when Twitter was already becoming popular, IIRC. It was more of a "Twitter is social-network-ish, maybe we should incorporate Twitter-like features into our product."
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question: Why does Twitter need people connected in Hollywood?
Uh...because Hollywood is by far the biggest category of twitter traffic?
By what metric?
Sorry, I know I'm being dense, I just don't see Hollywood stuff in my feed very often at all.
And if Twitter is talking up Hollywood, doesn't that mean Hollywood needs Twitter more than Twitter needs a board member with connections into Hollywood?
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#88I hate to be that (negative) guy, but I'm starting to get really tired of Dalton constantly pissing all over twitter. Particularly because he's competing against them. I'm an App.net backer, and I think it's cool what he's doing, but FFS, let someone else carry the water, if it even needs carrying at all. This all just feels really petty and whiney, particularly when you're already at work solving the problem.
Agreed, these posts (have been far too many lately) are annoying for three reasons. 1) There are better apps to build with Twitter's api than boring twitter clients. 2) There are plenty other clients to build for other web services if that's your thing. 3) As repeated by many people before, if you use someone's API they have control of how you use it. No point in whining, it's not like there is anything hidden or har…
> if you use someone's API they have control of how
> you use it
Somehow I don't think this fits with the way the world works.
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#89I like that twitter forces you to be concise.
I have a theory that it was Twitter forcing people to be consise that was one of the major factors of the Arab Spring revolutions.
Think about it: Politicians who have been trained in the art of speaking in soundbites have been ruling much of the world since the advent of electronic media.
Those who can't phrase their arguments in bite-sized pieces for busy people to digest come across as being ineffective intellectuals.
Titter gives ordinary people the ability to communicate in soundbites. Sometimes less is more. This is society-changing powerful stuff.
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#90An experienced Twitter user would know to add a “.” at the beginning of his message so that his followers would see it. Signed up for twitter on the day it launched(I think) and did not know that. Twitter is a painful product to use. It isn't made for humans. Twitter doesn't have to show a username in tweets; they can easily translate it to the name. Twitter doesn't have to require each reply to appear like an out of…
I've had an account since 2007 and this is the first I've ever heard of this also. Here is the explanation: "Place a period before the beginning of the @ if you plan on beginning your message with a mention, or else Twitter will only send that tweet to people who follow both you and the person you are mentioning." http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/09/15/a-list-twitters-lan...
Why is this not documented on Twitter somewhere I would have seen it?