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Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by simonsarris »

AdrianB1 wrote: post #75
simonsarris wrote: post #33

That's really too bad. I don't tweet much, maybe once a day, but I really liked using fleets, and lots of people told me they loved seeing them, in DM or @'ing: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1415370626303504389 I want my timeline to be mostly thoughts and nice photography that people can go look at as they please, and I don't want to pollute it or waste follower's time with one-off stuff (like making pasta e…

What is a baseline for tweets per day per regular user? One tweet per day means 365 per year, it looks huge to some people.

I'm not sure about regular user, there's a huge spread. I see most big accounts tweet 5-10+ a day. 10x that for media people.

Paul Graham tweets about once per every other waking hour (though sometimes not for days). Patrick Collison tweets every 2-3 days.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by camyule »

cameronh90 wrote: post #44
leviathant wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be selective in who you follow, and if you're following someone who shares interesting thoughts but retweets too much, you can turn off their retweets. That in combination with being judicious on the block button makes Twitter one of my favorite social networks.

I am careful but Twitter still shows tweets that people I'm following have liked. And they always seem to be the most enraging tweets (presumably with great engagement). Basically I want my Twitter to be a politics-free zone, but I can't help it if some of the people I follow occasionally like political tweets. Also, today it has been sending me a push notification to the same race politics tweet repeatedly even afte…

Switch to “latest” view instead of “home” and you receive a chronological timeline without seeing the liked tweets. I can’t imagine using Twitter without this. See the instructions on how to switch on this Twitter support article: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-timeline

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by delecti »

cameronh90 wrote: post #44
leviathant wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be selective in who you follow, and if you're following someone who shares interesting thoughts but retweets too much, you can turn off their retweets. That in combination with being judicious on the block button makes Twitter one of my favorite social networks.

I am careful but Twitter still shows tweets that people I'm following have liked. And they always seem to be the most enraging tweets (presumably with great engagement). Basically I want my Twitter to be a politics-free zone, but I can't help it if some of the people I follow occasionally like political tweets. Also, today it has been sending me a push notification to the same race politics tweet repeatedly even afte…

Change your timeline to "latest" from "home", and you will stop seeing tweets liked by people you follow.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by npunt »

I didn't love Fleets personally, the medium was mismatched to Twitter's niche of a public social network. Ephemeral media is ideally paired with a small/private network to maximize personal expression.

The next question is will LinkedIn kill Stories? I'd guess they're probably noticing similar low usage levels, but operationally they might not be as open to killing experiments quickly.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by jacobmischka »

> Our Fleet ads test, which concluded as planned last month, was one of our first explorations of full-screen, vertical format ads. We’re taking a close look at learnings to assess how these ads perform on Twitter.

Glad I stopped using twitter a few months ago.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by fullshark »

ruined wrote: post #90
mdoms wrote: post #56

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Perhaps people are anxious about tweeting because a single tweet can ruin your life?

tweets can't ruin your life any more than talking out loud anywhere else. the long searchable record is certainly convenient for digging dirt, but public speech is public speech.

Easy to find "bad tweets", easy to immediately publicize the "bad tweets" to the entire planet almost instantly, easy to have it trusted that the bad thing was said as the twitter timestamp exists and a bunch of trusted people talking about a screenshot if you delete it confirms it's genuine, not to mention most people don't use twitter imaging themselves giving a rehearsed speech in a public square, merely as a way to share their amusing thoughts to the planet for some immediate validation, the dynamic is pretty different.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by quaintdev »

gonehome wrote: post #99
thallavajhula wrote: post #5

Twitter is great when it comes to transparency. I love how they included this >Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets and talk directly with others. We’ll explore more ways to address what holds people back from participating on Twitter. And for the people who already are Tweet…

Being able to set retention would make me feel better about tweeting. You can do some of this with third party tools, but it'd be nice to have it built in. I stopped liking Tweets though because it's actually impossible to remove more than 3k old likes. I was eventually able to do so, but it required contacting their DPO office and having them reset the cache each time so I could remove them in batches (entire proces…

What I do

1. Bookmark instead of liking tweet if info is worth coming back to.

2. Retweet if I totally agree and want to share my view with my followers

3. Add people to different curated lists instead of following them.

Twitter has some excellent feed curation tools but not many people are aware about them.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by bachmeier »

partiallypro wrote: post #86
bachmeier wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a real concern on Twitter's end with the conversation being dominated by those who are "good with Twitter". That's a big problem because it's kind of a snoozefest to read tweets by a small in-group that you don't know and that won't interact with you. Twitter serves no purpose without interaction.

Which IMO is why Twitter allowing users to lock their replies is actually damaging to Twitter. Now people just Quote Tweet it instead of replying.

I understand the motivation behind allowing users to lock replies, but you don't need Twitter for that type of content. Twitter sucks for just about anything other than interaction.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by hiidrew »

My biggest issue with their design was the horrible flow of clicking on someone's profile pic from a tweet that has a Fleet up, would pull up the Fleet instead of their profile

In general, I'd like to turn off stories on every social platform I'm on. By far the most addictive design for me.

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