Twitter changes: 20 hits and misses from the social network's history
This article is about Twitter changing features on the site, which normally cause a debate. they announced a new application development called fabric. The changes impact Twitter users which then causes debate on Twitter about the site itself. Changes such as verified accounts, hyperlinked hash tags, retweet buttons and Twitter lists have in the past created topics to talk about and triggered criticism.
- In 2014, some people think it’s rude to manually re-post someone’s tweet with an RT at the start, rather than just tapping the retweet button. So it might be strange to think that once, all retweets were done in this way.
- In the first half of 2014, Twitter made $503m from advertising.
- This is one of the Twitter experiments that many people have forgotten. @EarlyBird was a new form of Twitter ad, but also an account that people could follow, tweeting out exclusive offers from advertising partners.
- BlackBerry was actually first to get an official Twitter app in April 2010, thanks to a partnership between Research In Motion and Twitter. But the same month, the company signified its intentions by buying popular iPhone app Tweetie, rebranding it as Twitter in May – by which point there was also an official Android app.
In my opinion Twitter is designed and made changes to according to what the consumers want, if they suggest something it would be taken into consideration. This is because even though Twitter is a large scale company, to keep consumers interested by using it they will make it more intriguing for users. This I believe is a good way to maximise profit for them.
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