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Twitter Ends Threaded Conversations Tests After Negative User Feedback

It was horrendous and i stopped repying and using the app.
 
Internaut said:
So Twitter wanted to be more like Reddit? When searching for stuff on inter webs, my default is to avoid Reddit. It just looks awful. How anyone can glean useful information from such a mess is a mystery to me.
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Reddit works just like a file browser. I don't understand how you could be confused by it.

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sw1tcher said:
Proof read what was typed out before tweeting?
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i’m going to assume you’ve edited plenty of things online after it had been posted. apply your logic to that and realize how dumb it is to suggest to never include an edit button, especially on a platform where immediacy is one of the core functions of the product.
 
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GeoStructural said:
I have never understood the appeal of Twitter. I only have an account as a placeholder for my business but I don’t even know how to use it, it is not the most user friendly or feature rich network.
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You know those people that, when you fix the filtering on their email client, they complain that they’re not getting enough emails? That’s the appeal. It’s just another service they sign up for to get a different kind of junk email.
 
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Kind of odd to listen to user feedback now. The platform long descended into a digital dumpster fire & was abandoned by most users because of the company’s refusal to listen to customer feedback. Too little too late, guys.
 
Fousthvk said:
Why not make it a setting? Don’t like it turn it off 🤷🏻‍♂️
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The 'negative feedback' probably didn't come from users. It was probably a measurable hit to the engagement and ad revenue.
 
farewelwilliams said:
so how can we voice our negative feedback about a lack of an edit button?
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They’re never going to add an edit button. Because this scenario would repeat tens of thousands of times a day:
  1. Post “like/retweet if you like puppies!”
  2. Wait for 10k likes/retweets
  3. Edit to “like/retweet if you like Hitler”
  4. Make social or political hay off all the people now caught liking Hitler.
Twitter would take so much flak for that - and be the subject of countless lawsuits all over the world in all sorts of jurisdictions, some of which would no doubt side with the plaintiffs.

The most common counter argument is “well, but only allow editing for a moment and/or if nobody has replied” - in that scenario, you can just as easily copy the text, delete the tweet, and paste the text into a fresh new tweet and edit to your heart’s content before hitting send. So no need for an edit button in that case. A third-party could even automate that procedure right now.

People have gotten used to tweets being indelible (well, erasable, it not changeable). Changing that now because someone’s embarrassed when they realize they misspelled a word yesterday, isn’t worth all the negative repercussions.
 
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CarlJ said:
They’re never going to add an edit button. Because this scenario would repeat tens of thousands of times a day:
  1. Post “like/retweet if you like puppies!”
  2. Wait for 10k likes/retweets
  3. Edit to “like/retweet if you like Hitler”
  4. Make social or political hay off all the people now caught liking Hitler.
Twitter would take so much flak for that - and be the subject of countless lawsuits all over the world in all sorts of jurisdictions, some of which would no doubt side with the plaintiffs.

The most common counter argument is “well, but only allow editing for a moment and/or if nobody has replied” - in that scenario, you can just as easily copy the text, delete the tweet, and paste the text into a fresh new tweet and edit to your heart’s content before hitting send. So no need for an edit button in that case. A third-party could even automate that procedure right now.

People have gotten used to tweets being indelible (well, erasable, it not changeable). Changing that now because someone’s embarrassed when they realize they misspelled a word yesterday, isn’t worth all the negative repercussions.
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that’s been mentioned so many times and plenty have come up reasonable workarounds for that.

MKBHD’s case for editing tweets at around 3:05

essentially you can limit it to the first minute, or limit to a max of 10 character changes all while providing an entire history of changes. just click on the dropdown and view the history of changes. plenty of sites allow for editing and they’ve worked out fine including Facebook
 
farewelwilliams said:
essentially you can limit it to the first minute, or limit to a max of 10 character changes all while providing an entire history of changes. just click on the dropdown and view the history of changes. plenty of sites allow for editing and they’ve worked out fine including Facebook
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And, again, if it’s in the first minute, just delete the damn tweet and paste the text into a new one. Same difference. The tweet only becomes valuable (in terms of keeping it that same tweet) at the point where people have read it, or liked / replied / retweeted, at which point it’s too late to edit.

And changing “puppies“ to “Hitler” is 7 characters.
 
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CarlJ said:
And, again, if it’s in the first minute, just delete the damn tweet and paste the text into a new one. Same difference. The tweet only becomes valuable (in terms of keeping it that same tweet) at the point where people have read it, or liked / replied / retweeted, at which point it’s too late to edit.
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no. it sounds like you don't have a twitter account with a large following

- I tweet something
- I get tens to hundreds of replies almost immediately
- I delete a tweet to fix a typo, like a scheduled date
- I see a question to my deleted tweet, so I start typing a response
- I'm unable to tweet the response because the question was deleted
- I have to search the new tweet for the original question so I can reply

This is such an awful experience. And this is only one scenario among many that could be resolved with editing tweets.

CarlJ said:
And changing “puppies“ to “Hitler” is 7 characters.
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1. Again, view the history of changes.
2. You can already do this on Facebook and Reddit. No outrage so far.
 
GeoStructural said:
I have never understood the appeal of Twitter. I only have an account as a placeholder for my business but I don’t even know how to use it, it is not the most user friendly or feature rich network.
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Twitter is still my favorite social network.

One way that I use it is real-time news. If there is an issue with a service (T-Mobile down in your city, iCloud, etc...). Chances are people are talking about it there before it’s even announced on the company website.

I read more than I post but I use it all the time
 
farewelwilliams said:
i’m going to assume you’ve edited plenty of things online after it had been posted. apply your logic to that and realize how dumb it is to suggest to never include an edit button, especially on a platform where immediacy is one of the core functions of the product.
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Immediacy that seems a lot more like Tourette’s.

COVID pales in comparison to the bigger global pandemic: diarrhea of the fingers.
 
Best new feature for twitter: removing alias and fake avatars to prevent armchair jackasses from raining lies and senseless evil down on in comment threads.
 
warp9 said:
Reddit works just like a file browser. I don't understand how you could be confused by it.

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I love threaded conversations like Reddit. But I hate treeview filebrowsers. Column view is definitely the best - I started work on a cross platform file browser that I could use on Windows and Linux but... I underestimated how complicated replicating the Mac's Finder would be.
 
i think i can see why people hated it.. Looks more like a maze than a chat session.

Apple mail conversions are more easier to read.
 
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