Facebook: v. To make changes to your users' experience without asking them and couching it in a "we know what's good for you" attitude.
Twitter recently made changes to their settings that seemingly will hide certain tweets from you. From Twitter's blog:
don't follow in your timeline is undesirable. Today's update removes
this undesirable and confusing option.
Now, the exact outcome of this is still a little murky to me as in the following paragraph @biz states:
Ummm…what?
There's already a lot of negative feedback to this changes based on the fact that #fixreplies is the top trending topic on search.twitter.com at the time of this writing.
The fact that the blog post is so murky is probably part of the frustration. For example, does this affect people who are using 3rd party Twitter apps, like TweetDeck?
In any case, the handling fumbling of the issue seems to be part of the problem. Why not make this a feature that we can turn on or off? Why force this change on us and tell us because what we're used to is too confusing for us? Just doesn't make sense.
Here's to hoping that Twitter's listening to their audience.
Rich Brooks
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