DISQUS

Louis Gray · 1 month ago

That's one of those posts that keeps on giving. I didn't expect it to be as accurate as it is, but it's not only served to chronicle the process you and I go through, but it's helped to be a reminder to me to avoid acting like the stage 4 and stage 5 person I can be. When things get tough, I use it as an internal check to avoid looking like... what do you call it... an arrogant baassttarrrddd? :)

A service like FriendFeed is a combination of technology and community. The technology is beyond measure, in my opinion. The community that is there has grown and become great on that platform. That it has changed over time is without question. Much of that has accelerated following the awkward and quiet Facebook acquisition. But the truth is that if every single person left, and kept their feeds intact, it would still have value for me.

I am working with a few sites that have interesting technology and interesting communities to see if they can fill the perceived void. But I don't think Twitter or Facebook are 100% the answer yet. We'll see!

Rahul Aggarwal · 1 month ago

@louisgray What can we do to get you beyond the discovery phase with Arktan? What can we do to improve?

Eoghann · 1 month ago

Just curious. Do you feel you would be as excited about Twitter right now if you had been made aware of the features, but hadn't had what was in effect an informal pitch from Twitter's top man?

Scobleizer · 1 month ago

Yes. Actually on Friday I had a talk with NK, who wrote the object database underneath these new features and the new list features and I'm even more excited now.

Sheamus · 1 month ago

I'd be excited if Twitter concentrated on finding solutions to existing problems - such as people missing from replies, implementing a proper blocking system and their complete lack of an abuse policy - and *then* looked a little ahead. Otherwise we're just mounting more problematic code and poorly-considered modules on top of the old ones.

Otherwise: I'm psyched! ;)

Scobleizer · 1 month ago

Sheamus: yeah, I gave @nk crap for blocking not being consistent. I don't think their philosophy allows them to go back and fix design mistakes. Sigh. I hope they do, though. People missing from replies? Is it getting better or worse lately? I haven't noticed that, but then I have so much coming across my screen I wouldn't notice a few missing @replies.

Sheamus · 1 month ago

Essentially it's lots (tens of thousands, I would guess) of folk missing from Twitter search, which means their replies don't show up in a lot of Twitter clients. Nor can they participate in hashtags (and any memes therein) and stuff like that. Documented here: http://twittercism.com/fixtwittersearch/ Twitter are aware of the problem but it's ongoing and has been an issue for months.

Scobleizer · 1 month ago

Twitter search has always been messed up for me, which is why Louis and I still love FriendFeed's technology. But even there I'm hearing major changes to Twitter's search are coming. It's just taken them some time to rebuild the technology stack underneath (Twitter's @nk told me Friday they rebuilt the database underneath Twitter from scratch, which is letting them build new features at a pretty quick pace now).

Louis Gray · 1 month ago

Feel free to use the chart, BTW. http://www.louisgray.com/graphics/earlyadopters...

Scobleizer · 1 month ago

Thanks!

SEO basics · 1 month ago

I agree, there would be a lot more happy people if they fixed what was already broken.

Sardar Mohkim Khan · 1 month ago

I quite agree with it. But as you point out, this can always restart and go all the way back to discovery. i always wanted to have a more manageable Twitter and the Lists feature makes that possible. I might be following a thousand folks but can always filter the most useful tweets by taking advantage of this list~

lizmclean · 1 month ago

Great post and interesting source post - would love to know more about how the research was conducted to come up with the data behind the pic?