As usual, the ever changing social media platform Twitter
has done some updates again. It used to be that you had to click on the picture
on twitter to actually see it. Now, the picture automatically shows up in your
news fee ultimately making the social media platform more like its largest competitor,
Facebook. This is making twitter more
appealing to a more vast audience making it similar to its competitor. This decision
that twitter has made is one that I agree with. Twitter is known for a
text-based platform. It is important to adapt to changes so that there is a consistent
advancement and updating of technological advances. This is also taking a step
to make people spend more time on twitter because it will take longer for the
feed to load because there is more information for it to be processed.
On
Twitter, @kkjordan tweeted “In the
past 20 mins, I've had a bare ass, a penis and shirtless Burt Reynolds on a
bearskin rug show up on my TL. Web client is now useless”. Twitter does give an
option to turn this feature off through the setting on either the application
on your mobile device or on the actual settings within the browser. “In short,
Twitter just solved two problems that weren't actually problems. A massive
repair effort is underway on something that, for hundreds of millions of
people, wasn't broken.” This update was provided with no explanation which is
why some people are in an uproar. Even though there wasn’t necessarily anything
wrong with the how the picture and videos, updates are much appreciated once
they are explained.
Very interesting post LeNeé. I personally really like the Twitter timeline update. In particular I enjoy how the photos appear on your timeline without having to expand the Tweet. In addition, I REALLY like that you don't have to expand a tweet to favorite it.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, I have asked numerous members of my COMM 295 class about their feelings towards the new timeline and an overwhelming majority of the class hates the new layout. They also commented on the numerous instances of advertisements on their timeline. I personally enjoy them having an interest in the field but the rest of the class can't stand them.