Twitter has been making several changes as of late, including changing "favorites" to "likes," displaying popular posts whether or not the user is following that person and allowing longer direct messages. However, these changes have met a variety of reactions, few of which are positive.
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| One of the milder reactions to recent changes... |
Personally, I am not a fan of the algorithm option. On Facebook, I find it confusing and, frankly, annoying. I have always been a fan of the way that I could follow an event as it was happening on Twitter and the idea of that changing is quite upsetting. To me, it seems like Twitter is sacrificing efficiency for the sake of boasting that it is "high tech" or "innovative" with relatively no input from their users. I am sure that, if Twitter had reached out and asked whether or not users prefered the chronology versus an algorithmic interface, fans would have preferred them to stick to what they already had.
At the end of the day, if something is not broken, there is no reason to fix it.
Until next time!
Kathryn
Like most people, I was shocked the day I went on twitter and saw that favorites had been swapped for likes. I liked that Twitter had a sense of individuality by using the term "favorite" instead of "like" and in the end the change seemed mostly pointless.I agree that Twitter going to an algorithm based feed like Facebook will take away from its uniqueness. I also completely agree that Facebook is annoying because I can click on an article to read it and then once I go back to Facebook, my timeline is completely different and I'll have no luck finding the same post twice unless I am able to remember who posted it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not excited about this at all. We have facebook already. We don't need another version of it. The whole point of twitter is to see updates as they happen. UGH!
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