Eeek, it reverts back to the terrible UI if you reload. My eyes, ouch. Very hard UI to use on desktop. A desktop is a desktop for a reason. PLUS it reverts to "top tweets" AAAAARGH. @Twitter wastes time to make the site worse when there is so much to actually improve. AAARGH.
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@Twitter goes the way of snapchat's redesign. I've seen bad UI updates in my decades of computer use but this is one of the worst. I really really really thought it was a bug. Couldn't comprehend that it was intentional.8 replies 22 retweets 76 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted ennui way you want it
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Among other unusable things, I can no longer have an instapaper button? Bookmarks used to only work on mobile, but now it's on desktop but add tweet to moments has disappeared? The amount of bugginess of Twitter has always been amazing and needed fixing. So they introduced more.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Vordio
For example, there's no easy way to add a quote tweet (like I am about to do) to a thread. Anyone who uses Twitter regularly likely encounters this. We copy link to tweet, delete after question mark, blah blah. Twitter designers don't use Twitter part 897.https://twitter.com/Vordio/status/1153314441087332353 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Andy Boyan (boyan.eth)
I've noticed this over the years. Twitter people tend not to use it much. I've seen people high up in Twitter leave Twitter and ... they go silent on Twitter. They were never core Twitter users, did some tweeting while employed and very little afterwards.https://twitter.com/andyboyan/status/1153394264971317248 …
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Andy Boyan (boyan.eth) @andyboyanReplying to @zeynep @TwitterIf you go find and follow a lot of Twitter's Product Owners and designers, many post what appears to be a company requirement of tweets per week. Almost always about pets or food or travel. Infrequently interacting with real conversations.3 replies 6 retweets 27 likesShow this thread -
For example, direct message notifications are a total mess. Does it include "other" or only followed accounts? Depends if on mobile or not. Who the heck wants notifications for "other" accounts? No way to separate. Any actual frequent user would realize this. Not the design team.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted FBananapants
Again, most everything that the core, heavy users that produce much of the content for the site are screwed up in new UI. Twitter designers are not natural or core Twitter users. It may work fine if you don't actually use the site much except to read.
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Replying to @zeynep
Devil's advocate time: maybe they think that that's how most users do in fact use the service. Maybe folks like you and I are the outliers? Remember their survey, a year or two ago, which asked why folks use it, and didn't have a choice for "discuss issues"?
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Right, but they service has to support the needs of the people who produce the content—fine to have a simplified, read-heavy version as long as the product has the tools to make the necessarily chaotic experience (directed graph, necessarily chaotic) tolerable and usable.
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But do the heavy posters with the most followers use their tools at all? Or are they using some service that tosses their content over the wall, with little or no thought to interacting except via other custom tools? I agree with you, of course—but maybe we're a small minority.
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you can't be that small of a minority based on how many people I see complaining seriously and loudly (including in my house) every time they do any UI update
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