Twitter C/D

twitter's fucked

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/22/how-to-get-new-twitter-profile/

Мдйї Ѕсђмїфт · Top Commenter
hey, heared the news? facebook copied it!
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ugh my bio looks gross as fuck now

http://hippocampus.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/hoos-tales-logo-without-edition.jpg

yeah that looks bad

Hah Karl

http://i.imgur.com/DUX3IFo.png

This is what I'm talking about although when I first started seeing it there were like 4 different font sizes & I would always have to open a favorite user's profile in incognito mode to get rid of it

Looks like they rolled it out to everyone now though

the hilarious thing about that "how to get to the new profile" article on Techcrunch is that I've had a gigantic banner ad on my browser for at least the past week that said "CLICK HERE TO TRY THE NEW PROFILE"

man that big text thing for clicks is stupid

its a totally standard way to highlight something like do u think headlines in a newspaper shd all be the same size, if it was directly proportional to likes or whatever it wld be dumb but its just a way to give a few popular tweets more visual prominence, u cld argue its against the twitter cascade ethos but it def makes more sense than the lol big banner image

yeah but its stupid

i can see how pop it is vis a vis RT's and favstars

waterbabies (waterface)
Posted: April 23, 2014 at 3:33:00 PM
yeah but its stupid

lol i luh u warerface

My position is that both the big banner image and the cascaded tweet font size both suck

Thank you very much for your time ladies and gentlemen

yr welcome

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i'd be all for it if more retweets/favorites meant that something was actually better. but most of the time the popularity of a tweet has nothing to do with the quality of it. some celebrity can say "hot dogs" and it'll get a billion retweets, and on a smaller scale, someone with 5,000 followers can post the exact same link and garner way more interest than someone with 50 followers. the system is already tilted to reward people who are already well known, and making popular people's posts larger just tips the scale in that direction even more. it would be like if big corporations somehow had to pay less in taxes than smaller businesses and people...oh wait

i heart u2 lagoonies

i should walk around schools, find the most popular kids, and give them megaphones

find the least popular kids and make them wear muffling masks

THIS IS TYRANNY
BAN TWITTER

FOUR RTS GOOD

what is needed is a lone employee at twitter who looks at every tweet and then gives it a quality rating from 1-10

in a strange twist, twitter chooses ken jennings for the job and he only gives 10s to really boring things

HOT DOGS

sorry, but i don't find that fascinating unless someone famous said it

or if chuck grassley misspells it

"HOT DOGS"--Karl Marx

https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/459000367259189250

Everyone @ internet 24s
look, Karl Marx thinks about hot dogs! RT "HOT DOGS"--Karl Marx

Expecting to see that tweet if I look yr page Dan

Karl Malone
Posted: April 23, 2014 at 3:43:33 PM
i should walk around schools, find the most popular kids, and give them megaphones

no but the tweets r only bigger when ur looking at someones profile so its all their tweets not comparing them to celebrities or w/e

you can't stop me from giving kids megaphones!

now will someone please direct me toward a cheap megaphone outlet

http://search.vzwwap.com/search?q=Mega+Phones+for+Sale&form=BRABAR&IIG=9f110ee9cee04f329bad13803312d560&kval=14.1&AppNs=mSERP

it's like giving the popular kids megaphones connected to a pair of headphones

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/vintage-megaphone

scrolling through ppl's followers/following looking for new ppl to follow sucks so much more now

hahahaha oh god

http://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/computer-accessories/iphonemegaphonespeaker.htm?variant=blank&gclid=CK_t8sSD970CFUVgMgod_zUAPw

you know if you buy 10,000 of those they're only $1.38 each! i could stock them by the register at my cool new knickknack store!

i got a free one at tech event last week it still in my bag i keep finding it

those things work surprisingly well

facebook doesn't even get profile photos right. look at the artifcats!

artifacts

not that they've ever been known for their design outside of, like, paper

or that redesign they never officially rolled out to everyone

"artifcat" is a very disappointing Google search

so is arf cats

barf cats is really good tho

don't search for fart hats

you're an idiot and i'm going to stop engaging you

not that they've ever been known for their design outside of, like, paper

― markers, Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imho facebooks design was one of the main things that made it successful, it was way ahead of its time, it started to get muddled as it tried to do everything in the world and serve ads etc, but it used to be pretty great from a ui/ux perspective