[Ipg-smz] Ugly new Twitter interface

[Christine Hall]

The whole purpose of this seems to be to switch users to the "Top Tweet" 
list, which makes it much more easy for them to monetize the site. For 
$99 monthly, Twitter is now offering a program that will expose your 
tweets even to people who don't follow you without marking them as 
"sponsored tweets," and the "Top Tweets" listing makes this possible. It 
looks as if they've been studying Facebook.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/25/19 3:07 PM, Mac McCarthy via Ipg-smz wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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