Things that should be added and removed from Twitter!!
Posted by Keos Intal on Monday, January 2, 2012
Twitter is the best social site I've ever know after MySpace. Why do I like it so much? Because of the simplicity they offer but without boundaries on your creativity. And it's much different from other social networking such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster etc. They're all using the same concept. Same features. Status updates, pictures uploads, video, browsing albums and they do look like blogs. If it's all about that, I'd rather stay with MySpace than create a Facebook account. Facebook and MySpace often stated: "This user only shares his/her info with people he/she know" where you can't view their profile. I fucking hate that crap! How do I invite somebody as my friend when I don't know anything about them?!! What's their interests, favorite musics, singers, hobbies or movies. I will add someone when I found something that same on me - same hobbies, same musics taste or otherwise. Anyway, here are some functions that should be added and removed from Twitter to make it better for us. Read it and send me your feedbacks!! :-D
Features that should be removed from Twitter:
- Direct message - Twitter is for sharing the news and updates to everybody so direct messages didn't needed in Twitter. And using the direct message function is too complicated when the user must be following you for you to send him/her a direct message.
- Following confirmation - it happens sometimes when you hit the "Follow" button and a message appear that stated the he/she only allowed specific users to follow her tweets. Even though he/she following you, it doesn't mean that you can follow her back seamlessly. It's very annoying for us to wait until a week or month for the user to confirm us as their follower. Like Facebook and MySpace. Confirmation is an essential for us to be friend. MySpace even worse, sometimes you need their email address to add them. Fucking annoying.
Features that should be added to Twitter:
- 200 limited characters - yes I know Twitter is simple and you need to shortened your words so it'll be simple to fit 140 caracters. But when you're struggling to make it fits 140 characters, we no longer call it simple.
- Its own URL-shortener feature - Yeah there's already URL shorterner on the web with the likes of Tiny URL but it's very slow and since it's the Twitter got very limited characters on pocket, they do really need their own URL-shorterner, a fast one so I don't need to open a new tab and use the other web.
- Shortforms dictionary - So many people use shortforms in Twitter because of its limited characters. We do understand a lot of them, but some are unrecognised and you don't be able to understand the whole meaning of what the Tweet is about. So Twitter should make their own English shortforms dictionary of common words being used. They can also create their own shortforms for us to use it and it could become a trend and being used widely in SMS and chattings.