Twitter Scrambles For Next Big Feature, Bets On Merging Tweets, Hashtags, Moments (adweek.com) 47
Twitter is introducing a long requested feature: A better way to discover people, events and trends.
The company is introducing Explore, a tab that the company says will be a home for the most popular and relevant content on the platform. From a report: In a blog post today, product designer Angela Lam said the addition will house Trends, Moments, Search and live video. "Over the past year, we've been exploring different ways to make it simpler for people to find and use Trends, Moments, and Search," Lam wrote. "During our research process, people told us that the new Explore tab helped them easily find news, what's trending, and what's popular right now." Explore -- which will begin rolling out for iOS today and for Android within the next few weeks -- is similar to what Twitter has been testing with some users a few months back. The news also comes just a few weeks after CEO Jack Dorsey used his own account to crowdsource suggestions for what users think Twitter could do to improve the experience.
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I can't wait for the Y2038 bug!
Translation: more centralized advertising (Score:5, Insightful)
I've pretty much quit social media so lemme know it it goes, 'mkay?
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I think the later type has moved onto Instagram.
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But if everyone leaves Facebook, how will I continue to convert SO MANY PEOPLE to my ways of thinking by repetitively "Sharing" articles about my political beliefs?
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Twitter was a huge graffiti wall for obscenities, insults, fun and telling celebrities and politicians to fuck off - oh and getting into 140 character petty arguments over bullshit.
Then the professional victims moved in and whined until Twitter gave in - started banning people who were fun and deliberately fucking with hashtags to hide things that SF hipsters didn't approve of.
I've no sympathy for them. They didn't understand their users, their experience and what made it fun. They listened to those crying
Um, No (Score:1)
Seriously, no.
Nobody wants that.
We do want to edit our own tweets, though.
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Isn't that three words?
You mean the Bots will be better able (Score:5, Interesting)
Everything is Snapchat (Score:2)
Wow sounds exactly like the stories tab in Snapchat... and should be just as much a wasteland. The strength of Twitter is in the diversity of communication, trying to boil it down leaves a bland and (probably literally) tasteless residue.
Does Snapchat get a bonus every time the industry follows them like little puppies?
Scope creep. (Score:3)
Stuff like this will be the undoing of twitter.
New features will require a lot of coding, testing, promotion, and tweaking down the line. All of which costs money, which drives more advertisements, and eventually drives people away.
If they had just remained a simple, streamlined service to let people share pithy quips and unironic hashtags, they could easily pay their server costs with a few unobtrusive ads, and remain a relevant (if niche) product for a long time. As it stands, I'll be surprised if they survive another year or two.
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They have to do something. They're not profitable as they are and slowly becoming obsolete. They can't do nothing. Maybe it will work, or maybe it will speed their demise. Either way, they need to take risks at this point.
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As it stands, I'll be surprised if they survive another year or two.
As long as it's the primary communications conduit for POTUS, I don't think it's going any where. That's the only reason I use it.
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I don't even know what the fuck you are talking about and that makes me really happy.
Fuck Twitter.
Best feature they could get (Score:2, Offtopic)
By far the best feature that they could possibly get would be remove their political bias. Twitter routinely censors or bans views that don't match their political views. Who seriously thinks excluding a significant portion of the population is a viable business?
Unfortunately they would rather burn their own house down than be politically tolerant. Political correctness strikes again....
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They do allow hate speech and threats against other peoples lives. Twitters double standards on hate speech are well documented:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01... [dailycaller.com]
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/... [breitbart.com]
http://www.truthrevolt.org/new... [truthrevolt.org]
http://www.dailywire.com/news/... [dailywire.com]
http://www.redstate.com/diary/... [redstate.com]
When you get to define hate speech as speech that disagree with than everything quickly becomes hate speech.
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Agreed, need more punching of nazis
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I have a suggestion.. (Score:2)
#RT@qwertyuiop~122312[aaa (Score:2)
Wrong approach (Score:3)
What I want in Twitter (Score:2)
TWTR (Score:2)
Because I see this business going downhill quickly.
Twitter is introducing a long requested featur (Score:2)
> Twitter is introducing a long requested featur
No. This wasn't requested by most of the users.
An edit function, which is still missing, is requested since years.