Comments on: Twitter: don’t worry, not even its inventors understand it http://www.republicpublishing.co.uk/2009/05/13/twitter-dont-worry-not-even-its-inventors-understand-it/ Brand Communication through editorial Wed, 12 May 2010 16:45:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Liz http://www.republicpublishing.co.uk/2009/05/13/twitter-dont-worry-not-even-its-inventors-understand-it/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Liz Thu, 14 May 2009 16:59:19 +0000 http://www.republicpublishing.co.uk/?p=7374#comment-123 It's a shame they saw something so valuable as a "one-sided conversation." They should think of it this way. Suppose I'm following @BarackObama and he was actually active & using this account. I'd want to see all of the messages he was sending out, not just messages to people I also follow. If I want to see what he was replying to, I can click on the receiver's name and see their Tweets. The point is not that the conversation's were one-sided, it's that I want to see everything that @BarackObama tweets, no matter who it's addressed to. I can already do that on the web interface by looking at their profile page but by choosing all @replies, it meant that they came directly to me in my Tweetstream. Now, I have to go out and search for them. Also, I follow some people who mainly write @replies instead of original Tweets. This change means that I see only a fraction of their Tweets since it is unlikely we are both following the same group of people. So it's almost like I'm not following them at all. It's clear that the folks at Twitter use the the network in a very different way than some of their core users. It’s a shame they saw something so valuable as a “one-sided conversation.” They should think of it this way. Suppose I’m following @BarackObama and he was actually active & using this account. I’d want to see all of the messages he was sending out, not just messages to people I also follow. If I want to see what he was replying to, I can click on the receiver’s name and see their Tweets.

The point is not that the conversation’s were one-sided, it’s that I want to see everything that @BarackObama tweets, no matter who it’s addressed to. I can already do that on the web interface by looking at their profile page but by choosing all @replies, it meant that they came directly to me in my Tweetstream. Now, I have to go out and search for them.

Also, I follow some people who mainly write @replies instead of original Tweets. This change means that I see only a fraction of their Tweets since it is unlikely we are both following the same group of people. So it’s almost like I’m not following them at all.

It’s clear that the folks at Twitter use the the network in a very different way than some of their core users.

]]> By: This is Why I’d Never Want to Run a Social Networking Site http://www.republicpublishing.co.uk/2009/05/13/twitter-dont-worry-not-even-its-inventors-understand-it/comment-page-1/#comment-120 This is Why I’d Never Want to Run a Social Networking Site Thu, 14 May 2009 14:11:10 +0000 http://www.republicpublishing.co.uk/?p=7374#comment-120 [...] Twitter: don [...] Twitter: don

]]> By: The Ongoing Mystery That is Twitter | Technologizer http://www.republicpublishing.co.uk/2009/05/13/twitter-dont-worry-not-even-its-inventors-understand-it/comment-page-1/#comment-115 The Ongoing Mystery That is Twitter | Technologizer Wed, 13 May 2009 23:49:33 +0000 http://www.republicpublishing.co.uk/?p=7374#comment-115 [...] Lots of other Twitter users were as dumbstruck as I was. They tweeted up a storm of protest, and Biz responded with a blog post this morning acknowledging their ire (and suddenly saying that Twitter made the change in part for technical reasons, a factor he didn’t mention in the first post). And in a follow-up post this afternoon, he reiterated that technical issues forced the change, and that seeing @replies to people you weren’t following was confusing. But he did say that the company is working on building better sharing options, nd he did throw a short-term bone to unhappy users: …we’re making a change such that any updates beginning with @username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon) will be seen by everyone following that account. This will bring back some serendipity and discovery and we can do this very soon. [...] [...] Lots of other Twitter users were as dumbstruck as I was. They tweeted up a storm of protest, and Biz responded with a blog post this morning acknowledging their ire (and suddenly saying that Twitter made the change in part for technical reasons, a factor he didn’t mention in the first post). And in a follow-up post this afternoon, he reiterated that technical issues forced the change, and that seeing @replies to people you weren’t following was confusing. But he did say that the company is working on building better sharing options, nd he did throw a short-term bone to unhappy users: …we’re making a change such that any updates beginning with @username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon) will be seen by everyone following that account. This will bring back some serendipity and discovery and we can do this very soon. [...]

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