Twitter Teases Hiding 'Likes' and 'Retweets' Counts, Color-Coded Replies in Biggest Set of Changes To Its Social Media Service Since it Launched in 2006 (nbcnews.com) 48
Twitter is teasing some of the biggest changes to its social media service since it first launched in 2006, aiming to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation." From a report: The company is also introducing new features to enhance pictures and video on the app in an effort to encourage users to make more use of the cameras on their smartphones, a move that adds features similar to those found on the apps of some of its main competition: Instagram and Snapchat. "We've really intentionally tried to make the images and footage that are captured on the ground at an event look different than other images and videos that you might attach to a tweet," said Keith Coleman, Twitter's head of consumer product. On Tuesday, the company offered the public its first look at a new prototype for the Twitter app, which the company is calling "twttr" in a nod to CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet, that includes a variety of changes to how Twitter looks and operates, centered on a new format for conversations and color-coded replies. The prototype also removes the engagement counts showing the number of retweets or "likes" a tweet receives. This change is designed to make Twitter a little friendlier.
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ORANGE MAN BAD
You people are such parodies of even the most absurd characterizations.
But how will people track ratios? (Score:5, Interesting)
Seems like it will take a lot of the (remaining) fun from Twitter, not being able to see the ratio of likes to comments...
I can't see a good case to hide either. Seeing how much something is liked can be really inspiring for some meaningful or heartwarming tweet (yes there are such things).
Similarly, seeing reply count is kind of nice as a metric of, should I even bother to reply, or read responses?
Seems like all changes are made to fight content Twitter dislikes. But all it ever does is make things worse for good content, and for Twitter usability...
A Twitter network outage would be great (Score:2)
Alternate Headline: Twitter Steps Up MiniTrue (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yup!
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"are being ratio'd into oblivion."
Honest question, can you explain what getting ratio'd means? I've looked this up on Urban Dictionary, but I'm still not clear. Are we talking about retweet to like ratio? Or are we talking about followed to following ratio? How are trolls and/or bots being used to change either of these ratios, and why would an average user care about those ratios anyway?
I'm not trolling, I'm really trying to understand. Thanks.
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"Ratio'd" indicates a post with substantially more comments than likes. Considering the relative effort that goes into a comment versus a like, a comment with more response comments than likes is taken as a bad comment. Despite the grognards' whining, there's no reason this should be taken as an SJW thing-the mechanism should be consistent throughout twitter across ideologies. It should be noted that unlike slashdot, "into oblivion" is hyperbole-unless the user is embarrased enough to delete the tweet under
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Since this pattern was first noticed, users on Twitter have reinforced it, often by piling on with short replies on tweets (or personalities) they find risible, in an attempt to drive home the poi
Back in the day (Score:1)
we used to have open protocols and you could make your client just so you liked it. And usually there were multiple clients to choose from, with all sorts of configurable options.
These days it's world news when a stupid company with a stupidly dumb "product" adds a few teeny basic features "in biggest set of changes since it launched". Makes one wonder what they've been up to in the meantime.
This you call progress.
But all it does is make me feel old and yearn for the days when USENET (and FidoNet, and so on
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Whenever I install mIRC, I still go to the about dialog and type "arnie".
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IRC servers with quality tech channels are still around
Hide more! (Score:5, Funny)
How about hiding tweets, and adverts too?
How glorious would it be if Twitter was just a blank page?
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And yet... (Score:3)
...still no Edit button. *sigh*
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I know, right? I think "color coding" of responses would have been waaayyyy down on my personal list of desired changes.
Yay (Score:1)
Finally! A platform not afraid to highlight wrongthink so I know to immediately disregard their information without further consideration. Thanks big daddy, Twitter.
4/1? (Score:2)
That's nice (Score:2)
Re: That's nice (Score:1)
velocity-vortex tuna melt (Score:2)
I reengaged with Twitter for about a month not long ago, a decade after emitting my first tentative Tweet, and for a few days I didn't entirely hate the experience.
At first I started small, but then I threw caution to the wind, and began following people from both the technological and the political side of the spectrum. Within two days of having technology and politics randomly jumbled into my feed, I had mothballed my Twitter account for another decade.
I can be highly asynchronous in my mental appetites,
Tweet this (Score:1)
Twitter is for twits.
It is what you want it to be. (Score:5, Interesting)
"In order to build a perfect society, you need perfect citizens." - Shirow Masamune, "Appleseed"
Twitter is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.