"We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline."
Significant benefits like increasing the adoption rate for third-party twitter clients, perhaps.
"Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this."
I tapped it once by accident while trying to swipe to see if I could delete it.
If twitter want to turn a spammy feature into a useful one, they need to start asking users about their interests, or else attempt to determine them algorithmically.
I don't know if one can count the IM client as a tested-then-removed feature. It was shut down for "maintenance" or something and never brought back to life…
[+] [-] modernerd|15 years ago|reply
Significant benefits like increasing the adoption rate for third-party twitter clients, perhaps.
"Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this."
I tapped it once by accident while trying to swipe to see if I could delete it.
If twitter want to turn a spammy feature into a useful one, they need to start asking users about their interests, or else attempt to determine them algorithmically.
[+] [-] justinxreese|15 years ago|reply
I can't remember any features that were tested publicly and weren't kept. Can anyone help me out here?
[+] [-] remi|15 years ago|reply