Vimoh Live 🎙️Nov 13, 2019

Here are some features Twitter DID NOT have when it began in 2006.

- Search
- Mentions
- Replies
- Retweets
- Lists
- Permalinks for tweets
- An algorithm

All of these features came when users demanded them.

The search function was actually built by folks who didn't work at Twitter. It was a service called Summize that eventually got acquired by Twitter and integrated into the service.

Retweets started when users began sharing other people's tweets by adding an "RT" before the text.

Show threadDiabolic Preacher ♒Nov 13, 2019
@vimoh those days of "listening to users" are so long gone!
Show threadVimoh Live 🎙️Nov 13, 2019
@dpreacher Oh they are listening. How can they not? But they will not act. And that's a purely numbers game.
Show threadDiabolic Preacher ♒
@vimoh well i implied action too. :( it's good to see such detailed thread here after a long time since I made myself scarce on bird site
Nov 13, 2019 at 12:15pmWeb