Re:Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams
by corin_ on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @07:32PM
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The activity stream just feels pointless for me. Favourites, I don't care, if it's worth me reading then they can retweet it. Retweets, they show up in my stream, if I want to see them specifically I could under the old system thanks to the specific retweets page. Who my friends start following just isn't interesting, and just wastes the space.
And I disagree with TechCrunch's "oh, people hate change, they're not thinking rationally" theory. When newtwitter beta launched last year (I guess 11-12 months ago, can't quite remember) I thought it was cool for about ten minutes, then hated it, and switched back to original twitter, where I stayed until the move was forced last week. In the week I've been using it solidly, I still hate it. And I'm not exactly on my own, EVERY friend I have that uses twitter either moans regularly about newtwitter, or has switched to an external client to avoid using it. Sure, that's a bunch of specific cases not an overall study, but it shows it's not a rare opinion to have.
And I disagree with TechCrunch's "oh, people hate change, they're not thinking rationally" theory. When newtwitter beta launched last year (I guess 11-12 months ago, can't quite remember) I thought it was cool for about ten minutes, then hated it, and switched back to original twitter, where I stayed until the move was forced last week. In the week I've been using it solidly, I still hate it. And I'm not exactly on my own, EVERY friend I have that uses twitter either moans regularly about newtwitter, or has switched to an external client to avoid using it. Sure, that's a bunch of specific cases not an overall study, but it shows it's not a rare opinion to have.