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What also worries me is that these changes suggest not only a difference in opinion regarding how a Twitter client should work, but also regarding just what the point is of Twitter as a service. The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character posts, you follow those people whose tweets you tend to enjoy, and that’s it. The Twitter service this new UI presents is about a whole lot more — mass-market spoonfed “trending topics” and sponsored content. It’s trying to make Twitter work for people who don’t see the appeal of what Twitter was supposed to be. It all makes sense if you think of the label under the “#” tab as reading “Dickbar” instead of “Discover”.
Daring Fireball: The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)
John really nails my own discomfort with the transformation of Twitter on the head here. I hate that Twitter is trying to reposition itself as a broadcast medium for celebrities and brands. I’d rather they just charged me $5 or $10 a month for an excellent Twitter circa 2009.
Note to self: explore Path and give Google+ another look.
Posted on December 9, 2011 with 1 note
Source: daringfireball.net
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Personal blog and research journal of Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D.
Christopher S. Rice is the Enterprise Architect for Academic Technologies and User Experience with UKIT and the Social Technology Strategist in the Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of Kentucky. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science with a Certificate in Social Theory from the University of Kentucky. He has, in the past, worked as Lecturer and Internship Director in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, Research Director of the University of Kentucky’s Appalachian Center and as Program Director of the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development. His current work focuses on the use of blogging, wikis, virtual worlds and other social media technologies in higher education programs and classrooms. His writing attempts to blend the development of critical political theory with the construction of political and digital ethnographies concerning issues of space and place. His dissertation, Discourses of Sustainability: Grassroots Organizations and Sustainable Community Development in Central Appalachia, examined the work of several grassroots and community-based organizations in promoting community sustainability in the region. His teaching interests include use of social technologies by political parties and political activists, pedagogy and social technologies, and modern & contemporary political theory. Currently, Christopher lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife and two young and energetic children. His oldest daughter graduated from college in the Spring of 2008 and doesn’t visit near enough.
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