I wish people would actually read the articles before commenting.
This references the various tools that led to the development of Twitter, but I’d rather you read the article than go by my attempt to tl;dr it here ;)
People react to the title; very few actually read the article. On reddit, I collaborated with media outlets to measure click-through rates a few times for high-profile content. It’s something like 2.5% on a good day.
As far as what you could do: the biggie would be to allow longer titles and auto-fill with a machine-generated summary, rather than use the original title.
Howdy neighbor. Well let’s not be disengious right: That’s not what the headline suggests.which is why I’m commenting.
And what you’re suggesting isn’t even accurate. Jack D, founder of twitter talked on a 60 minute segment saying the original inspiration came from cop radios talking about where they were and what they were doing. He then much later worked at a blog sort of company called Odeo and that’s where he passed around the idea.
Most importantly this article tries to push a narrative that Jacks coworkers at Odeo were anarchists and that had great influence on twitter. At best they were users of the platform.
TXTMob clearly pre-dates any “idea” Jack D. might have had himself and the early Twitter was obviously modelled after that. I don’t know how old you are, but I clearly remember how tied-in the early Twitter was with SMS… it was basically their whole shtick.
I wish people would actually read the articles before commenting.
This references the various tools that led to the development of Twitter, but I’d rather you read the article than go by my attempt to tl;dr it here ;)
People react to the title; very few actually read the article. On reddit, I collaborated with media outlets to measure click-through rates a few times for high-profile content. It’s something like 2.5% on a good day.
There’s an academic paper about it from back in 2017. Not much has changed since then.
As far as what you could do: the biggie would be to allow longer titles and auto-fill with a machine-generated summary, rather than use the original title.
Howdy neighbor. Well let’s not be disengious right: That’s not what the headline suggests.which is why I’m commenting.
And what you’re suggesting isn’t even accurate. Jack D, founder of twitter talked on a 60 minute segment saying the original inspiration came from cop radios talking about where they were and what they were doing. He then much later worked at a blog sort of company called Odeo and that’s where he passed around the idea.
Most importantly this article tries to push a narrative that Jacks coworkers at Odeo were anarchists and that had great influence on twitter. At best they were users of the platform.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/jack-dorsey-on-his-childhood-inspiration-for-twitter/
Origin of twitter https://penningtoncreative.com/the-origins-of-twitter/
TXTMob clearly pre-dates any “idea” Jack D. might have had himself and the early Twitter was obviously modelled after that. I don’t know how old you are, but I clearly remember how tied-in the early Twitter was with SMS… it was basically their whole shtick.
I’ll concede. Sure. Maybe I personally don’t like the idea of tying in anarchists to twitter. I still think its something of a stretch though.
If the title isn’t what the article’s about, that’s not our fault . . .