More whitespace would be appreciated. One question: Are these replies still tweets?
hey Twitter. we've been playing with some rough features to make it feel more conversational here. presence and reply threading. still early and iterating on these ideas. thoughts?pic.twitter.com/3U3NvpHWPy
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noted! yes they are still tweets
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Also, what are those green dots? Online status?
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I have to admit, I always disliked apps showing online status. It's confusing to me. How do you determine who is online in a hyperconnected world?
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this is just a start, but one of the things we've been thinking about is how to signal specifically that you're online and looking for conversation
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Knowing when someone is online will have much bigger negative effects than positive ones. Pile-ons, targeted attacks, all that sort of stuff. Twitter works best because it’s asynchronous. It’s not your “friends” like Messenger.
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This a million times
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yeah, would definitely want you to have full control over showing your presence
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This is just a sample of replies to your tweet obviously, but so far I'm not really seeing any support for the online status indicator. If that's representative and Twitter did it anyway, my assumption would be that it was really for the sake of paid ads.
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this is just one early exploration. one of the (many) things I'd like to try to capture is an intent to chat. like, I'm at an airport for 45 minutes and I'm here to hang- show that I'm online to others. thoughts?
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Hm. Well you obviously have access to more user data than I do but I just don't see that as something users would be wanting. But also that's a really specific scenario while the indicator is really broad. If I'm not using the app on my phone but it's running in the background -
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- am I on? I have to monitor Twitter for my job, so my desktop pretty much always has it open. I see accounts sometimes tweet "I'm stuck on layover send me something funny". I guess I feel like tweets themselves serve the function you're describing.
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..as asychronous as you wanted it to be. Want to sit on the keyboard hammering replies? Fine. You want to tweet and go away for a week? Also fine. Don’t implement stuff just because you can. Consider the potential for abuse first and foremost, because we have quite enough of that
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Sara, many are asking if they can opt out of presence, but presence (if implemented) should clearly be an “opt in” feature. Privacy & safety should be top priority for
@Twitter; as noted on@jack’s thread, presence is concerning for targets of harassment.@TwitterSafety@gcluley -
it's an early exploration, but yes, would want you to have full control over showing your presence!
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Does “full control” mean opt in rather than opt out?
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