I think the real core value prop of Twitter is the niche communities people can build around their interests. It's about the interest graph. I posted this in another article on the front page today, but I'll do it here also. I think they need to double down on growing communities within Twitter. It's just too hard right now.

Here's my proposal:

Twitter Rooms: https://medium.com/@danielrakh/twitter-rooms-e6f34e843e9a

What Twitter is lacking more succinctly is a thought pg expressed when talking about startups:

Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent.

Twitter's strategy is to have lots of people to like it rather than to have a smaller group love it.

I really do hesitate to say this, but this looks an awful lot like IRC.

Twitter itself reminds me a lot of IRC actually, albeit with a fancy interface draped over it and a a low character limit.

Yes, there has been a single change that has improved things. Changing stars to hearts. The data shows that it's an improvement, presumably to engagement (as stated in the Twitter blog post).

Now, whether you consider that an improvement, is just your irrelevant (irrelevant to Twitter) opinion. I think we really need to draw a distinction between opinions that are thrown around and decisions that are backed up by data, and give benefit of the doubt.

Newer stuff I like:

  * The “While you were away” list of tweets
  * Auto showing images
  * The analytics being available for everybody
  * Muting accounts 
  * Blocking retweets (but allowing normal tweets) from specific accounts.

However I note that the Trends list on the main web interface no longer was a short summary of what each trend is. I guess whoever was doing that got let go.

In what sense are they successful? I mean, they've never turned a profit. Maybe the time has come to declare the experiment a failure.

Completely agree. Twitter needs a real user perspective, not a Facebook or non-user one.