Re:Twitter: It is too late for it to become the giant people...
by dasil003 on Friday September 16, 2016 @01:28PM
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I agree, Twitter's management definitely has to take the blame here. It was their responsibility to manage the narrative, and I remember early on all the rumors of management squabbles. It's clear that those inside the company who wanted to build a cool dev platform lost out to those with dollar signs in their eyes who wanted to go for a moonshot.
I can't help but feel there was a third path which is to say: we've now outgrown our free-for-all dev roots, and we need to standardize the experience so we can improve it unilaterally, but let's do so with the acknowledgement that we have something special, something which may be worth more than 10x growth or 100x growth achieved by a tremendous cash burn. Obviously hindsight is 20/20, so I can't hold it against them too strongly, but it still really makes me sad.
Re:Twitter: It is too late for it to become the giant people...
by krat0sprakhar on Friday September 16, 2016 @12:27PM
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> I loved it until they started manipulating my timeline
FWIW, in the iOS app (at least) you can turn this feature off from the settings menu.
Those institutions are equally responsible for the historical hype Twitter has received.
>This demand for growth is also why Twitter's management took their eye off the ball and failed to recognize and improve the core problems that hurt the product and community.
This isn't the fault of anyone but Twitter management. No one forced them to take outside investment or go public. When you do that, investors want a return. If that isn't in your plan, and you want full creative control, don't take the money.
>by and large they've put together a super interesting product.
I loved it until they started manipulating my timeline, making it difficult to read streams chronologically. I haven't opened the app for months. It's too bad, because I agree, it was a great product and my goto aggregator.