I'm pretty sure you're wrong just going by features listed on the wikipedia page[1], and that appears to leave out a number of cool features such as polls and the extensive support for image alt-text.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Twitter

Indeed. Shipping new changes is actually the reason these glitches are occurring.

Do we count turning on something half-baked, finding bugs, turning it off, it wasn't really off, turning it back on later with 3/4th the promised feature 5-6 feature releases?

Or maybe we're counting a feature that was developed but not released for N (reasonable) reasons, now discounting those N reasons and releasing it anyway as a signal that there's some sort of innovation occurring?

I know. What innovation has twitter done in the 5 years prior? Not too much

Someone above was genuinely impressed by allowing alt text on images.

Wasn't Spaces under the previous management?

That said, I don't know what bar for "feature over the last 6 months" is actually meaningful. The problem with Twitter was never the user-facing product, it was the thing that actually made them money - the ads. Twitter usage exploded under the Trump years while revenue lagged. The product that Twitter should be innovating isn't user facing.

They just added ads in the tweet replies (as opposed to just the main feed) and will be giving a percentage of the revenue to the person starting the thread.

I can only think of Spaces, doubling the character limit and something about NFTs on profiles.

Like the emergency kill switch that shut down all of Twitter Spaces for the entire platform when Elon was asked a single pointed question he didn't want to answer.

https://fortune.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-shuts-down-twitter-...

there isn't a much better analogy to the interchangeability of bug and feature than this comment.

So innovation is just shipping new features? Don't really believe that's a great metric to track something so subjective, I believed innovation had a bit more weight than "let's do something and ship it! Whatever!".

Please explain how the old twitter innovated by your definition

I didn't state anywhere that old Twitter was innovating, that's your strawman to beat :)

and you believe that right? jesus