Nothing is certain except death and taxes. Oh, and that Jack Dorsey will find a way to make Twitter suck harder.
CEO Jack Dorsey said Twitter is looking to change the focus from following specific individuals to topics of interest, acknowledging that what's incentivized today on the platform is at odds with the goal of healthy dialoguehttps://t.co/31FYslbePA
— Axios (@axios) April 16, 2019
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The bottom line: Dorsey said he’s not worried that those changes could mean people will spend less time on Twitter. “If more relevance means less time on the service, that’s perfectly fine,” he said, adding that if people are having conversations, Twitter “can still serve an ad against that.”
It’s good that he’s not worried about people wanting to use his product less, because that’s likely what’s going to happen if the changes he’s proposing are implemented.
Just when you think he’s come up with his worst idea yet, he surprises you. ? https://t.co/9BKKXb66Mf
— Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) April 16, 2019
Nobody:
Twitter: yes, we can fix that.
Everybody: huh? https://t.co/OfO35owz6j— Pouncing Coder Brad (@bradcundiff) April 16, 2019
If Jack Dorsey wanted us to believe that he’s trying to destroy his baby, he couldn’t be doing a better job.
So… Turn it into… GOOGLE PLUS? https://t.co/rKBBMuDvlb
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) April 16, 2019
What a great way to make Twitter completely worthless. https://t.co/vwOGEoQTGw
— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) April 16, 2019
This is a horrible idea which is, of course, why Twitter is planning on doing it. https://t.co/G7oA9jY1uk
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) April 16, 2019
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This is perhaps the worst idea in the history of Twitter, and Twitter is run by a guy who tweets out pictures of his mosquito bites https://t.co/Y02WsjQJ5D
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 16, 2019
The final proof that @jack's real goal is to kill his own creation. https://t.co/hXIj0ZxSiZ
— Dodd, Not Eric Swalwell (@Amuk3) April 16, 2019
These aren’t the moves of someone with good business sense. Or good sense, period.
"Healthy dialogue" is code for "things I agree with"
— Coach O Hummer Drip (@CoachOHummuh) April 16, 2019
Shifting from individual voices to a buffet of officially authorized tropes will certainly save this site https://t.co/dbE5VwVpiU
— James Poulos (@jamespoulos) April 16, 2019
One of the few things that keeps me on here is being able to observe individual journalists making their corrupt sausage in real time. https://t.co/U0q3sKoGPs
— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) April 16, 2019
and so people who are using social media in an unhealthy way are suddenly going to use it in a way that is healthy by following topics rather than people? https://t.co/aBzPR7XxFi
— Kevin in ABQ (@KevinInABQ) April 16, 2019
I really beg to differ, based on experience with the kinds of topics that tend to trend.
— Kevin in ABQ (@KevinInABQ) April 16, 2019
If they do make this change, I will be very disappointed. The value in twitter for me is following individuals that interest me and interacting with individual folks that have shared interests or something to say. https://t.co/fVSrFGx4MV
— Melanie Friedlander (@Girlsurgeon) April 16, 2019
good god i just want to see tweets from people i follow. this isn't rocket science. give people the option of following certain topics, but don't force it on everyone
— go canes go (@boredflyerafan) April 16, 2019
the whole point of twitter is to follow the voices of people you are interested in. if i wanted to follow a topic, i’d use a news aggregator… you know, like i already do.
ps- you look like an idiot, @jack. you are in your 40s. stop with the 90’s goth/grunge thing.
— this coup isn’t funny anymore (@maison21) April 16, 2019
And yet this platform constantly switches my feed — without permission — to "top tweets" so I can see the trolling and stupid tweets of people I don't want to follow. I think they need to think harder about all of this. https://t.co/6AdC4vASSA
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 16, 2019
This is all part of a long-term plan to make "Basic Twitter" so untenable for power-users that they can get power-users (like many of you reading this) to pay for "Premium Twitter," which will just be the good old reverse-chronological feed from followers only plus allowed RTs. https://t.co/ooAenuzgDe
— Fallen Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) April 16, 2019
Seriously. All I want is one button that puts my feed in reverse-chronological order with the only thing showing being tweets from people I follow and RTs from the ones I allow to RT.
I will accept advertising as the cost of doing business. That's it.
— Fallen Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) April 16, 2019
Is that really so much to ask?
Just put us out of our misery. https://t.co/Xjmwq69AoB
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 16, 2019
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