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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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