{"id":6806,"date":"2017-05-04T17:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:56:43","slug":"linked-twitter-live-and-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/linked-twitter-live-and-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Twitter, Live, and Luck&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3039,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2017\\\/twitter-live-and-luck&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250721122257\\\/https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2017\\\/twitter-live-and-luck\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 02:24:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-01 03:10:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 13:38:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-24 14:13:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-19 23:43:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 07:29:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 23:05:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 14:06:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 19:12:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 19:12:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2017\/twitter-live-and-luck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Stratchery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The shareholder letter above is an example of exactly what I mean; Twitter is still selling the exact same value the service offered back in 2006 \u2014 \u201clive commentary, live connections, live conversations\u201d \u2014 and the only product ideas are to do what old media like television does, but worse: becoming the first screen for what is happening now means a screen that is smaller, more laggy, and, critically, in the way of seeing the actual tweets one might care about.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s also an example of the worst sort of product thinking: simply doing what was done before, but digitally. The classic example is banner ads: back when we viewed content on paper, the only place to put advertisements was, well, on the paper, next to the content. And so, when the web came along, folks just mimicked newspapers, putting advertisements next to content; the result was web pages that suck and an industry in crisis.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it a good or bad thing that Facebook moved away from live stream-of-consciousness design? Given their success, I assume they have no regrets but Twitter is the only mainstream and free platform that allows anyone with an email address to post what they\u2019re doing, experiencing, seeing right this moment and allows people to subscribe and see that moment without any fancy algorithms. Twitter has made some design changes to their web-interface that show you what\u2019s a top-tweet from that user but you can toggle an everything view quite easily.<\/p>\n<p>My point is, Facebook during an award show is boring. The algorithm can\u2019t keep up. Things you\u2019re most likely to click on bubble to the top and posts about what your friend ate for breakfast are hidden unless you go directly to their page.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter doesn&#8217;t do that. When something happens, Twitter blows up and you can see it not only in your timeline but via the hashtag search as well. Maybe this was the wrong approach that will lead to Twitter\u2019s demise but it\u2019s why I loved Twitter and simply tolerated Facebook. Once they removed the ability to see the news feed based on chronological order (most recent), I was done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Stratchery: The shareholder letter above is an example of exactly what I mean; Twitter is still selling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-05-04T17:55:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"5ad402eb-d98e-4eed-bb41-292e0c7989e2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-05-04T17:55:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWtQC69mOTu27QSkuDHmJ4g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1LM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6707,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/linked-indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":6806,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via KickStarter \/ Micro.blog: Do you remember how the web used to work? 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