Twitter C/D

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

Yeah it ws!

I would not smash Facebook in any of its incarnations

Who was that dutch design outfit they bought? They were good i think..?

the twitter week in review thing is pretty cool

omg i just turned the new profile on and then said i didn't want it and there is STILL that huge ad saying try the new profile design on top of my TL, why?

they're going to force you to get it eventually, so you may as well just learn to like it now

such is the way of things now.

Also, I didn't even know about this story until today, but totally agree that Twitter is useless for "controlling the conversation"

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/24/opinion/robbins-nypd-twitter/index.html

well my mom just replied to my tweet

shut it down

@MAMAHOOS

please tell me you replied "thanks mom"

hoosmom the steenbirther

it was nice when I could easily read someone's timeline

please tell me you replied "thanks mom"

― Karl Malone, Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"thanks MOM"

its realy sad

Rule 3: Social media is often ruled by the haters

lol at the notification emails they're sending now

just shut another one off

Another Eulogy for Twitter: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/

Some of this rings true. It does feel a bit less fun to me, and a lot of the stuff that used to be fun to join, like shared shouting at the telly, seems to have stopped. I used to think it was just me/the people I follow, but maybe it's wider than that?

Also I'm pretty sure the continual fucking-around they're doing with the site and the apps is making it completely bewildering for new people, rather than a fun challenge like it used to be

Yeah I pine for the days of making pithy commments about x-factor with chris addison and caitlin moran and tracey thorn as well

Also I'm pretty sure the continual fucking-around they're doing with the site and the apps is making it completely bewildering for new people, rather than a fun challenge like it used to be

― stet, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:46 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup http://valleywag.gawker.com/twitter-is-losing-momentum-and-money-1569492846

or at least they have failed at making it easy to use

shd prob just admit they are a service for l33t users and cater to that

I'm glad I got Pet Shop Boys to retweet me before Twitter died

#BlessedEndGirls

I "get" that TWTR needs to make $ because it's public but it's such a sweet lil program it makes me sad that "people" think it's not worth anything and their developers keep trying to make it something its not

yes

If it were a program it could just be open-source and live forever, but it's a service. Expensive keeping servers running that can do everything we've come to expect in real time.

But yeah it's been product managed within an inch of its life.

looking forward to watching twitter burn

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/

forgive me, easier than cutting and pasting

http://i.imgur.com/wsokRHtl.jpg

insulted and hurt u chose not to include my thought leadership re that conversation

heds aint ready man

the twitter eulogy does resonate, have felt like that for a while, but there are certainly ways of making your own twitter better. mostly it comes down to not being boring and careerist

looking forward to watching twitter burn

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 16:46

are you trolling?

idk feel like its a balance like this morning i made room to RT some design stuff and also joke abt bob dylans death w lex

"I think the @ sign is scaffolding that makes Twitter hard to navigate. We need to push the scaffolding to the bkgrnd" -@dickc on @'s
https://twitter.com/elisewho/status/461542875021721600

This guy is a huge part of the problem. Trying to hide the scaffolding is what is making it so hard to use now

lol @dickc

thats fucking insane

how so?