Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left

Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by jakelarkin on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:31AM (#12083881)

"But there's Twitter. All these years, it has stayed remarkably close to the original concept of microblogging."

right, they only added photos, video, FB style profile pages, link shortening, location metadata, algorithmic timeline, moments, messaging, and extensively developed mobile apps but otherwise yes exactly the same as when they were an 140 char SMS broadcast service.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by niftich on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:47AM (#12083930)

I knew this was going to be challenged, and you're not wrong. But Twitter still feels closest to the original incarnation of 'here be a (roughly) reverse-chronological list of text-message length posts'. They had the timeline, the "friend feed" first, and most enhancements affected only the payload of their messages. Moments was a big innovation, and it's presented as a separate offering on their website.

Whereas Facebook's primary function went from a carefully-curated yearbook-style personal and interest page to an... algorithmic timeline of friend's status updates and tumble-blog reposts.

Snapchat went from an app that sends disappearing photos to a general-purpose multimedia messaging app that happens to still put a timer on photos.

Instagram went from a photo and selfie-sharing app to a general-purpose social network with an algorithmic timeline, sponsored posts, and private messaging.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by krisdol on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:35AM (#12085361)

Twitter switching away from a chronological see-everything timeline was a massive departure from its original idea, on the same scale as many of your other examples. To me that was a core feature and not having it just makes Twitter much less interesting to open.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by udkl on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @02:28AM (#12084250)

Why are we putting a premium on 'retaining it's original features' ?

This looks like a logical fallacy.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by coldtea on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @06:21AM (#12085130)

Because a lot of radical changeovers in other services are not user needs driven and look more like bait and switch.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by sneak on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:17AM (#12084435)

> (roughly) reverse-chronological list of text-message length posts'.

Twitter went algorithmic timeline not too long ago, sadly.

Fortunately, it can still be turned off - but is on by default.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by majewsky on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:27AM (#12084751)

> it can still be turned off

Where? I unchecked every setting that I found, but I still get that "While you were away" and "#something is currently trending" bullshit.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by denzil_correa on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:26AM (#12085937)

Here is how you do it.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/164083#settings

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by coldpie on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @10:50AM (#12086558)

You can't get rid of the dumb "while you were away" thing, but you can block it. With ublock origin, add this to your "My Filters" settings:

  twitter.com##has-recap

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by te_chris on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:25AM (#12084473)

You can turn it off??? This is the best news I've heard in ages.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by denzil_correa on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:27AM (#12085943)

Of course, you can.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/164083#settings

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by macintux on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:13AM (#12085846)

FWIW, as far as I know it hasn't infected 3rd party clients, or at least Tweetbot is still unaffected.

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by detaro on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @02:30AM (#12084259)

A lot of that is different from the original, but IMHO not against the "concept of microblogging".

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