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rurcliped | 3 years ago

Landing page - the primary problem I had was trying to understand what your product does. The phrase "shared by your Twitter friends" implies that you have introduced a new concept ("friends"), perhaps a group of like-minded individuals who are curating Twitter on behalf of one another. In other words, unless a Tweet is shared by at least one member of my "friend" group, I will NEVER see that Tweet in my email. This is potentially very valuable to consumers who have a limited amount of free time, and only want to read manually vetted content. However, I think your product doesn't actually do that. Instead, your product provides "A summary of your Twitter home timeline" - and that may, in general, include niche topics that are very important to me but not relevant to any of my friends. This is also valuable but has a different audience. Ideally, the landing page would make it clear which of these product variants I'm actually buying.

Other comment - I think https://murmel.social/top violates the Twitter brand guidelines, and the Twitter company will eventually object. Their guidelines specify "credit Twitter by using the our logo" (from the https://about.twitter.com/content/dam/about-twitter/en/brand... page). Every Tweet must include the bird picture. Your https://murmel.social/top page is too easily misinterpreted to mean that some of the content is sourced from Twitter but other content is sourced from elsewhere, because the bird picture appears intermittently.

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p5v|3 years ago

I agree - friends is totally the wrong term here. It implies a bi-directional relationship (like the ones founds in social networks, e.g., Facebook). What we really mean here are the people one follows on Twitter. So, in a way, it is what you think it is - a summary of one's home timeline.

If you have a better suggestion to replace "friends" with, we'll totally take it. I mean, "people you follow on Twitter" would also work, but feels a little verbose, IMO.

P.S. Good point about checking the Twitter guidelines - we'll have a look and make sure to comply. To be fair, though, none of the competing services (including, Mailbrew, the leading one), actually do that either.