Twitter just lobotomized itself
One of the strengths of Twitter was the ability to see people that your friends replied to. For example: I follow Seth. Seth follows Brad. However, I don’t follow Brad. I could turn on an option that saw Seth’s replies to Brad. I like what they’re talking about so I follow Brad. There was a setting in Twitter that allowed you to see the people your friends replied to. I loved it. I found new friends that way like @samtaters because she was talking with @tapps about #actb. Had this feature not been available, I never would have become friends with Samantha.
Now Twitter calls this feature ‘confusing’ and removed it. REMOVED IT. Twitter, are you f’n STUPID? The whole POINT of your service is to find others with like interests to connect with. Now you’ve removed that feature and all of a sudden, I don’t have any more Samathas or Brads to find in my stream. This makes Twitter about half as useful as it used to be.
Not only that, but Twitter hasn’t gotten a true business model yet, and already you’re pissing off the users. A stupid financial move if you ask me.
If anyone from Twitter is out there reading this, you made a horrible move. Put that feature back, or make it ‘advanced’ if you think people are too ‘confused’ by it.
Either way, FIX IT.
You can read their logic behind this here: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/small-settings-update.html
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And they call it a “small” update. -_- imbeciles!