Comment by ceejayoz

3 days ago

Long tweets: 2017 (https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/twitter-officially-expands...)

Subscriptions: 2021 (https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-launches-subscrip...)

Community Notes: 2021 (https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-bir...)

Native video: 2012-2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service) / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_(service) / https://www.videonuze.com/article/twitter-unveils-30-second-...)

Musk buys Twitter: late 2022.

That leaves… Grok.

Thanks for the reply, but you get a number of things wrong.

The 2017 "long tweets" are actually 280 characters. 4k characters tweets have been introduced in 2023.

The "subscription feature" is a content creator one, while I meant paid blue check.

"Community notes" had not been publicly launched before Musk did, renaming them from "Birdwatch".

The "native video" feature you mention is Vine, which had been discontinued.

Not saying that Musk innovated (doesn't take much to make blue checks subscription-based or to increase the length of tweets) but he did act decisively to introduce changes in the good old Twitter, something the previous CEOs had hesitated to do.

  • > The 2017 "long tweets" are actually 280 characters.

    So, longer.

    > The "subscription feature" is a content creator one, while I meant paid blue check.

    I consider the paid blue checks a negative, not a positive.

    > "Community notes" had not been publicly launched before Musk did

    As with the long tweets, this then becomes a pretty minor tweak.

    > The "native video" feature you mention is Vine, which had been discontinued.

    I mentioned three iterations. The last link, in 2015, is the current native video handling.

    If I, personally, went to my boss and rattled this off as a list of primary personal achievements in the past couple of years, they'd say "you're padding things"… and I'm a single developer.

Chronological feed by default with a setting that actually sticks, private favorites, new media gallery, "E2E" messages.

(side note: Birdwatch was a way better name than Community Notes)

  • > Chronological feed by default with a setting that actually sticks…

    Musk killed third-party clients, which all had that already.

    > private favorites

    To conceal the plunge in activity post-acquisition, and to soothe the owner. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-boosted-elon-musk-tw...

    > new media gallery

    We're not really calling a bit of a redesign "innovation", are we?

    > "E2E" messages

    Anything using Twitter for this in a scenario where said encryption is important is a loon, IMO. That's what Signal is for.

    • >Musk killed third-party clients, which all had that already.

      Irrelevant for the point but yes, API changes and killing TweetDeck was a shit move.

      >To conceal the plunge in activity post-acquisition, and to soothe the owner

      I don't care about your opinion on that, for me it's great and made me like more posts. I don't engage in politics on Twitter.

      >We're not really calling a bit of a redesign "innovation", are we?

      We are listing changes. Seems like you are just biased against Musk instead of engaging in a discussion.

      >Anything using Twitter for this in a scenario where said encryption is important is a loon, IMO. That's what Signal is for.

      Agreed but it's a new feature.