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Re: Twitter's new timeline feature

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Post by tenpies » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 4:17 AM UTC

distances wrote: post #34

jeffisabelle wrote: post #20

> We've already seen that people who use this new feature tend to Retweet and Tweet more, creating more live commentary and conversations I really don't like this trend. The same thing happened with facebook with notifications. They looked at the data and figured that when people have notifications they tend to open the app more. Then started to send tens of unwanted notifications every day. (Which comes from eg. gro…

> Result: hard blocking notifications from the mobile OS level. For me the result was uninstalling Facebook. The app was showing daily notifications for people it thinks I could follow, with no options to disable the feature. This was fixed at some point, so I guess the user feedback got through.

Ditto. The minute the official Twitter client started sending irrelevant notifications I uninstalled and switched Twitter clients.

Interestingly enough one of their 5 things this quarter is going to be "improved developer support". I wonder how they'll balance this with third-party Twitter clients that intentionally filter out official marketing efforts.

Re: Twitter's new timeline feature

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Post by fivre » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 4:29 AM UTC

lukewrites wrote: post #57

I think twitter would be better off embracing lists. I follow relatively few people because of the firehose effect. My attitude towards the people I follow is that I like seeing their tweets, but I don't really care if I miss them. News would be a good example of this. It's great to get news or sports tweets in the moment, but they're probably not tweets I'm going to go back through later to find out what happened. O…

Maybe more tags than lists--the current UI for adding lists/adding users to lists is clunky as hell. I would be able to make more use of it if I could just open an account and add personal tags to it without having to go through the current several menus/popups needed to manage lists.

Re: Twitter's new timeline feature

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Post by coldpie » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 1:16 PM UTC

davidpatrick wrote: post #104

yolesaber wrote: post #62

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That's what lists are for. I follow over 400 people but have them segmented into lists and its never unmanageable for me.

I feel like lists need more attention. It is such a pain to navigate to on mobile. A lot of people don't even know they exist.

You're right. I have never heard of "lists" on Twitter. I do use a third party client, Twidere. I wonder if it supports the feature.

Re: Twitter's new timeline feature

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Post by sangnoir » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 4:03 PM UTC

alextgordon wrote: post #130

sangnoir wrote: post #110

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I think there are 2 types of twitter users. The first type follows many accounts and skim through the tweets with no effort to go through all of them. This feature is a Godsend for them. The second type of twitter users, like myself, follow a short list of people, and we actively curate this list so that we can read all the tweets in our timeline. I have just realized that it is in Twitter's best interest if everyone…

Back in 2009 the developer of Tweetie got so frustrated with the second group he made this site: https://web.archive.org/web/20090218122324/http://twitterisn...

It's preposterous for him to prescribe how others should use twitter. Besides, I don't read each and every email I get either.

The thing is I do not trust an algorithm (or popularity) to accurately tag what an "important" tweet is to me. So I tend to follow single-purpose accounts with high signal to noise ratio - if I follow you for your insights in algorithms; serial-tweeting your cat pics will get lead me to unfollow you. I know I miss out on a lot of C.Sci wisdom from people who tweet prodigiously, which is a shame

I wish twitter had user-defined 'channels' like @user/cuda and @user/cats so I can selectively follow a specific channel that interests me...

Re: Twitter's new timeline feature

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Post by Kiro » Fri, Feb 12, 2016, 12:24 PM UTC

blorgle wrote: post #100

Kiro wrote: post #93

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How is it terrible exactly? Works great for me.

As one current example: I just logged in to fb (Android app) for the first time today and was shown a post shared by a friend. I left a commmment and was shown a weird message "will be shown once online". Never seen it before, but no problem I just need to check my comment went through. Too bad! That shared post is no longer in my feed, even after dragging to refresh 3 or 4 times, each time showing completely differe…

Sounds really annoying but isn't that a corner case?