Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by prawn on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:35PM (#13226110)

Same. My thought for this, and I wanted to build a media industry specific alternative to Twitter using it, was to allow a tweet/story to have depth/paging.

So, imagine your timeline is a regular, vertical stream. But any tweet could have paging on the horizontal axis, and you'd hit next or swipe to continue reading. Anyone browsing could read the opening tweet and ignore the rest if they wanted. Subsequent tweets within the first could have a video, image gallery, etc. Analytics would show the writer how many people delved how far into the content.

So, for a sports story, some people might scroll past, or read the first couple of sentences, but a strong fan would read every detail down through the analysis and stats.

Not sure why they haven't tried this. They could supplant some news that currently exists as links outside of the app.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by madeofpalk on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:31PM (#13226604)

> I wanted to build a media industry specific alternative to Twitter using it

Considering really the only people on Twitter is just Media people...

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by prawn on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @05:33AM (#13228118)

Which is why I'm surprised that the media lap it up rather than collectively building something they have more control over. Of course, it would take an industry organisation to arrange that and in my experience those bodies aren't really capable of doing something at that scale.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by jpt4 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:46PM (#13226432)

Are you familiar with Ted Nelson's hyperorthogonal data structures [0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software)

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