Info-density on the new Twitter feed design is yikes: just three tweets in a huge 1400pt vertical window.
(I use a third-party client for all except the timeline, but I actually quite like the algorithmic timeline!)
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I had to turn off media on my phone so I could see more than one tweet at a time. Also has the benefit of being less distracted by images/movies too, but it is wild to see how they've encouraged media attachments turn the service into something else completely
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You can only read one tweet at a time though and there's little to no coherence between tweets in the feed, so I think it's not a big problem (if you don't mind scrolling a lot). 😂
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That's not really how I use Twitter. If you were to eye-track me, you'd see an aggressive skimming action, jumping mostly to profile pictures and key words in tweets to decide which to read.
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i’m also surprised by the (lack of) horizontal density, and how the distance of mouse travel isn’t prioritized on desktop.
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e.g. here's my timeline in TweetDeck (~7 tweets)
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this screenshot is still more info dense than average due to the prominence of ’s daily drop
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Just wait until you see how many pieces of content TikTok has on the screen at a time
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algo timeline lovely, hope they add more accessibility options like Slack/Discord have done for theme-scale