[Ipg-smz] Ugly new Twitter interface

Mac McCarthy mac.mccarthy at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 19:07:55 UTC 2019


Otoh they may be trying tobaddress issues from users other than us.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:59 AM Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> On 7/25/19 11:34 AM, Jaikumar Vijayan via Ipg-smz wrote:
> > I hate it. 'If it ain't broke don't fix it' is clearly something many
> tech
> > companies don't believe in.
>
> Look at it from the other side:  If Twitter didn't make changes, how
> could the programmers earn their princely salaries?  How would the
> executives justify their existence?  And their paychecks?
>
> And don't forget monetization.  Many "improvements" are done to increase
> the income to the company, not to please the existing eyeballs.
> (Remember that adage?  If you aren't paying for it, you are not the
> customer, you are the product.)
>
> I don't use Twitter at all, which means I can look at the situation from
> an unbiased viewpoint.
>
> You can throw brickbats now.
>
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