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Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by cloudjacker on Friday June 03, 2016 @12:34AM (#11828323)
yeah no, snapchat was never a timeline and thats what was good about it

you want to be connected with someone because you are friends but don't like the random shit they post but don't want to unfriend them? thats a problem for a different social network but not snapchat

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Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by themagician on Friday June 03, 2016 @12:39AM (#11828342)
It is a timeline though. I open Snapchat and I see all the messages and stories, in order—sorted by time. It's not jumbled, there's no features. There's no "Featured" or "Top Stories" or "Retweets". It's just a timeline of content. From people I follow or people I know who have sent things to me.

My Snapchat looks just like my Twitter did in 2008, except with a few more boobs.

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Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by cloudjacker on Friday June 03, 2016 @01:24AM (#11828504)
ok

by definition of timeline correct, by UX of timeline no. it doesn't show you what it is without you explicitly diving into that story

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Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by themagician on Friday June 03, 2016 @01:28AM (#11828512)
What are you talking about? I open Snapchat and it's literally two timelines, a private one and a public one. They are in order and timestamped. By definition and by UX. It is perhaps a quintessential example of a timeline of content.
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Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by themagician on Friday June 03, 2016 @01:41AM (#11828566)
You are the one being pedantic in this case.

Sorry a list of content sorted by time is a timeline. I don't know what else you call that.

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