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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 30 Oct 2013

    I assume Twitter did tons of A/B testing before turning into a photo-sharing service, but I find the photos drown out the text.

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      1. Adam J Schmidt‏ @adamjschmidt 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg @davewiner But they're worth a thousand words! Which is what, like 10 to 15 tweets?

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      1. Kyle Cronin‏ @kylecronin 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg 1000 words say more than 140 characters

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      1. Aquilino Peña‏ @Aquilino 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg you should try http://notegraphy.com  to blend your great content with beatiful typographies. The Notes really stand out in twitter!!

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      1. Joanna Gough‏ @thegentlesnail 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg I love that the photos are drowning the text. There's suddenly so much more to photo composition. Haven't felt that in a long while

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      2. Sherpa Capital‏Verified account @sherpa 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg would be great to toggle on or off.

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      1. Jared Martin‏ @jaredandmartin 15 Nov 2013
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        @paulg What if the photos are of text? JK

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      1. Rodrigo Bijou‏ @rodrigobijou 1 Nov 2013
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        @paulg You would assume they did similarly heavy testing on Twitter #Music but...

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      1. George Barnett‏ @gabthinking 31 Oct 2013
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        @paulg and some of the photos in-stream are truncated, creating hilarious unintended consequences...

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      2. Dan‏ @d_s_phillips 31 Oct 2013
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @5tuBC and the photos don't load 57% (estimated) of the time

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      3. Stuart Coleman‏ @hiimstu 31 Oct 2013
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        @danielsphillips I turned them off

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      1. Erwan KEZZAR‏ @ErwanKEZZAR 31 Oct 2013
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        @paulg Sure. Already want to get back to the text-only display. Reminds me the feeling before I migrated from @Delicious to @Pinboard #clone

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      1. Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek‏ @m_gol 31 Oct 2013
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        @paulg @mcbazon Fortunately there are alternative clients.

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      1. Krishna Srinivasan‏ @kr1shna 31 Oct 2013
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        @paulg @davewiner for the first time I've been compelled to switch to a 3rd party app. Too much going on in the Twitter app interface.

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      1. Richard West‏ @RiczWest 30 Oct 2013
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        .@paulg Easy, just use Tweetbot :-) Easilyworth the money…

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      1. Oran B.A‏ @OranB777 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg It takes a lot of courage to stay away from #photo #sharing these days.

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      1. elhector‏ @elhector 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg I think it depends on who you follow. Interesting move, forcing people to evaluate what 'signal to noise ratio' really means for them

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      1. Birgit Grossmann‏ @b_grossmann 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg I guess they think as everyone loves tumblr, it cannot be wrong... (dislike tumblr, personally)

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      1. Farshad Nayeri‏ @FarshadNayeri 30 Oct 2013
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        @paulg novel for the first 5mins then annoying. Wonder if this is paving the path to display ads.

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