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Scott Stratten
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6 days ago
in Who’s Your Bubblehead? on Looking Glass Lane
I was totally gonna say Clark Griswald food additive, and you said it! +1 Internet and a pack of Big League Chew to you
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1 month ago
in Twitter: “We Screwed Up” on #fixreplies on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Yep, such a different way this would of went down if they went with the scalability issue from the get-go.
Saying you've change a "little used" function, even at 3%, hits over 200,000 users, most that used that function are active users, vs the dormant accounts, IMHO.
I for one didn't use this function, since it was going to add a huge amount of tweets in the main stream for me of a lot of "LOL!!" and "Thanks!" between two people. I still say it's more useful and focused for people not to use this function of saying "all @ replies" but understand the reasons why some ppl choose to use them
Saying you've change a "little used" function, even at 3%, hits over 200,000 users, most that used that function are active users, vs the dormant accounts, IMHO.
I for one didn't use this function, since it was going to add a huge amount of tweets in the main stream for me of a lot of "LOL!!" and "Thanks!" between two people. I still say it's more useful and focused for people not to use this function of saying "all @ replies" but understand the reasons why some ppl choose to use them
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AlexSchleber
Now you disappoint me, Scott Stratten (@unmarketing). You didn't want to see what your closest 25k friends were writing to others? :)
(Ironically the larger your following/follower set gets for someone such as yourself, the larger the % of @ reply tweets that will surface in your timeline even with the default setting.)
I am now seeing A LOT less of you, is that truly what you are arguing for? See, I used to click through a lot of your little "Well played Sir!" and "...and by XYZ, I mean..." type @ reply banter with peeps. Most of it is GONE now... If anything, Twitter should be integrating MORE conversation threading/visibility into the platform, not less. It already works on Search.twitter.com, so what gives?
The point is, it's better to have access to the full data set (which should also be less expensive database lookup-wise), and then filter down from there as you see fit. Twitter's spirit is openness (maybe a lot more open than its founders foresaw), why deny access to an entire class of Tweets out of hand?
BTW, I find Mashable's lauding here of Twitter's apology as "frank and honest" almost as Orwellian as Twitter's language in all of this from the get-go. They (Biz, et al.) still continue to try (rather clumsily) to tell us what to think. Propaganda that can easily be spotted is... 2nd rate propaganda.
Also agree with people further down that the 3% of users number feels "massaged". If it were % of active users it should be a good bit higher. Don't trust any statistic you haven't forged yourself...
(Wrote a longer retort here:
http://alexschleber.posterous.com/my-comment-on...
)
(Ironically the larger your following/follower set gets for someone such as yourself, the larger the % of @ reply tweets that will surface in your timeline even with the default setting.)
I am now seeing A LOT less of you, is that truly what you are arguing for? See, I used to click through a lot of your little "Well played Sir!" and "...and by XYZ, I mean..." type @ reply banter with peeps. Most of it is GONE now... If anything, Twitter should be integrating MORE conversation threading/visibility into the platform, not less. It already works on Search.twitter.com, so what gives?
The point is, it's better to have access to the full data set (which should also be less expensive database lookup-wise), and then filter down from there as you see fit. Twitter's spirit is openness (maybe a lot more open than its founders foresaw), why deny access to an entire class of Tweets out of hand?
BTW, I find Mashable's lauding here of Twitter's apology as "frank and honest" almost as Orwellian as Twitter's language in all of this from the get-go. They (Biz, et al.) still continue to try (rather clumsily) to tell us what to think. Propaganda that can easily be spotted is... 2nd rate propaganda.
Also agree with people further down that the 3% of users number feels "massaged". If it were % of active users it should be a good bit higher. Don't trust any statistic you haven't forged yourself...
(Wrote a longer retort here:
http://alexschleber.posterous.com/my-comment-on...
)
I was feeling pretty proud of myself after reading the first part of your comment, then I came to "Big League Chew." Son of A b$%&*. I can't BELIEVE I forgot about that. Is it too late to switch brands?
Jen/aka Bubblehead Champion