{"id":24711,"date":"2015-09-08T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=24711"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T10:03:03","slug":"fixing-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/08\/fixing-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fixing Twitter<\/a> – here’s a reasonable rant on what’s wrong with Twitter and how to fix it. \u00a0Product managers and marketing people should definitely read.<\/p>\n

Second\u2013and this one is obvious to almost everyone\u2013Twitter 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 f\u0438cking banner at the top that says \u201cfollow this breaking event.\u201d It shouldn\u2019t just search for a hashtag\u2013it should use intelligent algorithms to show me all of the relevant content about that event. It should be the<\/em> place you go to learn about what is happening in the world right now<\/em>. When something major happens in the world\/your country\/your city, you should be trained to immediately and automatically think, \u201copen Twitter to get updates.\u201d This is so obvious to me that I wonder what Twitter\u2019s product team has been doing\u2014are they over-designing a solution to this? It\u2019s so simple. 90% of the UI and 80% of the search functionality is already in the app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Fixing Twitter – here’s a reasonable rant on what’s wrong with Twitter and how to fix it. \u00a0Product managers and marketing people should definitely read. Second\u2013and this one is obvious to almost everyone\u2013Twitter needs to focus on realtime events. When I open Twitter during a major debate in the US, or when a bomb has … Continue reading Fixing Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fixing Twitter #social #twitter","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1152,1111],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-24711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t