For all those people who complain about my pictures of food, somebody else’s pictures of babies, Justin Bieber photos, and the like, here’s something to try: get rather.
This sounds like a handy tool for anyone who hasn’t been blessed with patience or can’t figure out the “unsubscribe” button.
Fixing Twitter – here’s a reasonable rant on what’s wrong with Twitter and how to fix it. Product managers and marketing people should definitely read.
Second–and this one is obvious to almost everyone–Twitter needs to focus on realtime events. When I open Twitter during a major debate in the US, or when a bomb has exploded in Bangkok, there should be a huge fиcking banner at the top that says “follow this breaking event.” It shouldn’t just search for a hashtag–it should use intelligent algorithms to show me all of the relevant content about that event. It should be the place you go to learn about what is happening in the world right now. When something major happens in the world/your country/your city, you should be trained to immediately and automatically think, “open Twitter to get updates.” This is so obvious to me that I wonder what Twitter’s product team has been doing—are they over-designing a solution to this? It’s so simple. 90% of the UI and 80% of the search functionality is already in the app.
Instagram blog reports:
Today, we’re excited to announce that — in addition to square posts — you can now share photos and videos in both portrait and landscape orientation on Instagram.
An end of an era …
.. visited Facebook in a single day! I have a hard time wrapping my head around that. I remember the Web before Facebook existed. I remember when Facebook reached a total of billion accounts. And now, we have a billion active daily users. Wow!
Apart from everything else, the amount of engineering that went into creating the platform, growing the features, and keeping it up and running is beyond comprehension.
0 to about 11,000 employees in 11 years. Wow!
I nearly had a heart attack … it took me a couple of seconds to realize that this was a prank…
@mamchenkov Are you talking about GNU+Linux ?
— Richard Stallman (@rmsthebot) May 8, 2015
Well played, well played …
P.S.: For those of you who don’t know who Richard Stallman is – shame on you. :)
P.P.S.: Easy for you to spot the “bot” part here, but I saw on this on the mobile app, which was more insisting on the name rather than the handle.