Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by abc_lisper on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:13PM
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No shit! They should charge companies and news agencies, and anyone representing companies per tweet(1k per tweet or similar). They provide a valuable service - why should they give it to corporations for free?
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by mkagenius on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:36PM
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fb doesn't do that. Twitter can follow what fb does. Right now twitter is very light weight, un-cluttered. It can change UI/UX to advertise more. Of-course there has to be value for advertisers as well - which I think is there (350M users).
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by abc_lisper on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:58PM
(#12567090)
Yeah. Twitter is a broadcasting platform. It is different from FB. FB feed has your mom and their friends' posts. Twitter doesn't, unless you explicitly ask for it. Not everything should be about advertising. Twitter can stay as it has, and just charge people with money, money.
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by gaius on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:28PM
(#12567293)
The feeds of both are whatever the algo thinks - which will be some compromise between what you want and what the owner of the algo wants.
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by tkxxx7 on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:40PM
(#12567384)
What is algorithm-driven in my twitter feed? The 'While you were away' stuff at the top? Other than that, as far as I know it's always been a chronological feed of whoever I want.
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by gaius on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:58PM
(#12567519)
Are you sure? http://fortune.com/2016/03/20/twitter-algorithm-social-marke...
If you don't even notice it, the algo has got you...
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by msravi on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:14PM
(#12569264)
Wow, didn't know that either. But I don't "follow" people. Rather, I simply add them to different lists (finance, news, science, tech, right, left, etc.) and use tweetdeck to follow the multiple lists.
I wonder if they're also messing with the lists... In any case, as far as I can tell, I seem to be getting all the tweets of people in the list in chronological order.
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by tkxxx7 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @07:48PM
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that's a good point too, I have a couple lists I look at for close friends and such and only go onto the timeline every now and then
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by tkxxx7 on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:06PM
(#12567559)
Oh, wow. Does this effect third-party clients as well? I use Echofon almost exclusively.
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by gaius on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:15PM
(#12567619)
I can't imagine not - would Twitter give people an easy way to avoid sponsored content etc? That's one reason they cut off all the devs.
Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S...
by digi_owl on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:42PM
(#12569056)
Twitter's basic problem is that they opened up to third party clients back while they were still growing, and those third party clients quickly outpaced them in new usage features.
Twitter has been trying to reign that in since (various things their official client can do is not accessible via the public APIs), but they can't just drop their third party support or they would see the usage rates dwindle in no time flat.