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Nice Here’s my #1 rec for @twitter: realize that quote tweets are a killer feature of your product. Add it as a separate part of notifications besides All and Mentions. And separate it from RTs. Ie make it “likes, RTs, QTs”. Sounds radical? It’ll push this game into hyperdrive https://t.co/sVuqnoC13t
Imagine if you could click on one of your tweets and see all the quote tweets of it. You can kinda do a clunky attempted workaround by searching for your tweet via URL but that’s a crappy UX and sometimes just doesn’t work Which is my most self-QT’d tweet? I don’t actually know
“Ok I’m imagining it. Umm 5 people quoted my tweet? Cool! So what?” no! 5 *instances* of your tweet being quoted. You can start doing threads *in reverse*. With different threads that lead to the same *destination*. completely different way of thinking https://t.co/CJK4AZc67Q
Assemble the desire-path mindcity!!! 🕸 https://t.co/RxDCpECJOh
Now that more of us are playing the threading game: As we compete+collaborate effectively articulate things we all care about, And weave each other’s thoughts into our respective webs, The desire paths will assemble a mindcity paved with the best individual thoughts
We can go forwards *and* backwards; everything is connected, https://t.co/5rYLZeueio
Micah gets it!! Let’s get meta - when you go to his tweet, you should be able to click “see quote tweets” or “1 QT” or whatever and find *this* tweet. But you can’t. Yet. https://t.co/ns8xjuUDfL
@visakanv But this already applies to replies, no? I would say in principle (not sure if this is currently so) someone who you've blocked shouldn't be able to QT you. It should at most show up as just a raw hyperlink to your tweet, with no backref-like-this-proposal.
Please add a tab for QTs @jack Maybe only after you have 1,000 followers, if it would be too confusing for beginners Or suggest it when a user first gets a tweet quote-tweeted more than 10 times https://t.co/1bjHqVzH6p
I'd also like to request a tab in notifications just for quote tweets. bc right now they only show up in All, but not in Mentions? so if I want to respond to quote tweets, I have to scroll past all the follows, likes *and* mentions? losing track of QTs breaks my user experience https://t.co/HcD8ovN8eC
thus apparently ends the golden QT era of Twitter (2020–2023) https://t.co/zzIG0xVz2d
@visakanv I would be so curious to know whether this was intentional or just oversight like did a bunch of people made a bunch of decisions and not realize that they severed connections that are vital to the collective consciousness on here? https://t.co/81LegWkBCS
@visakanv for now we can still do it, hopefully they don't remove this too https://t.co/3f8Yb5TZq3
@visakanv @Twitter Oh man I totally didn't see this until now. Very relevant to the #TwitterReplacement idea I've been musing about for awhile. I think if @jack is serious about incentivizing collaborative conversations, this QT thing is a key move. https://t.co/AQEO73y4rM
@visakanv @Twitter @jack Seriously how do we get this in front of Jack? https://t.co/HcliX1ZoSI
@visakanv @Twitter @jack Ofc, QTs are being one way among our peeps, but my impression is that elsewhere they have a a bad rep? https://t.co/i0dZXep2Fh
@Malcolm_Ocean @Twitter @jack https://t.co/bmSzgcxbx6
@visakanv @Twitter @jack This is of course because people don't understand that amplifying something you disagree with is still amplifying it. (See this thread of Visa's on this topic) https://t.co/ydb8Xi8NPM
@Malcolm_Ocean @Twitter @jack https://t.co/maay5XJPls
@visakanv @Twitter @jack Oh! I am realizing that the first 3 times I read that tweet by PG I misunderstood what he was saying and thought he was saying the QT feature was bad. Seems he's just saying it's bad for giving feedback, which is basically true.
@visakanv @Twitter I had a further thought that I wanted to plug back into this thread about QTs-as-killer-feature. The tweet composer needs a really solid UI for searching for tweet to embed https://t.co/R8MHHm6hMg
@visakanv @Twitter For an related UI/UX flow, consider the linker in google docs, which lets you paste a link but also automatically searches the web for whatever phrase you're linking. It obviously wouldn't work the same in Twitter, but I think the underlying inspiration is basically the same! https://t.co/dG2BAS9pdN
@visakanv @Twitter Whoaaaaaaaa. The ‣Headings field here (which I literally didn't notice existed until posting that tweet) is making me think it would be cool to be able to reference a tweet from the very storm you're composing, which you can't usually do because it doesn't exist & have a url yet
@visakanv @Twitter A further thought on the design of this: https://t.co/nWBAXg531d
@QiaochuYuan Because obviously there's a limit to how many different accounts one can make a quick search for from:ACCOUNT. If I were designing this it would probably have one hotkey that would open the search from:SELF and another from:_____ and another with no from: param.
@visakanv @Twitter Another thought I wanted to add to this thread for reference: For QTs to assume their rightful role as killer feature, their text needs to be embedded in full, not sometimes (and inconsistently!) truncated. https://t.co/P0HTCHjvMW