Twitter's Complexity

created on Sat, Feb 27, 2016

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/02/20/twitters-missing-manual/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11171643

It takes thousands of words to explain how to use a service that permits only 140 characters.

This is a space that is ripe for disruption. Someone or something could create a much simpler "discussion" engine that would probably gain significant traction.

The hard core Twitter users, such as media people, would not leave Twitter for a new service.

But some Twitter users might migrate, and the new simpler discussion service may attract people who never used Twitter, or who only dabbled with Twitter.

It was good to see that a couple people in the related Hacker News thread mentioned Twitter's horrible web UI/UX.

In the past, I have jokingly assumed that Twitter intentionally made its web experience frustrating in order to encourage users to install a native app.

Twitter's mobile and desktop/laptop web experiences break multiple, long-standing, and basic web principles.

I don't use any Twitter native apps. I don't log into Twitter. But occasionally, I like to access the Twitter feeds of users or see search results for a topic. And I'm always impressed by Twitter's bad web experience. It must make sense for hard-core users. But the bad UI/UX