Twitter has been hard at work to improve the user experience on its platform. Not only does the company want to promote meaningful content and lower the amount of spam floating around, but it also wants to become a more “conversational” platform.
Sara Haider, Director of Product Management at Twitter, uncovered two new features that are currently being tested as a new approach: threaded replies (kind of like what Facebook already does) and status indicators (again, much like what Instagram and Messenger are already offering.)
https://wersm.com/twitter-is-testing-new-features-to-improve-conversation/
Here are 5 lessons for improving UX that brands and marketers can borrow from the UI of popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/content-marketing/5-ux-lessons-from-the-ui-of-facebook-twitter-and-linkedin/
Twitter announces its latest efforts to build trust and encourage healthy conversation on the platform with the removal of locked accounts that may result to a change in the number of followers displayed on many profiles. Most people will see a change of four followers or fewer; others with larger follower counts will experience a more significant drop. Follower counts on Twitter is a visible feature, and Twitter wants everyone to have confidence that the numbers are meaningful and accurate.
Over the years, the company has locked accounts when sudden changes in account behavior were detected. In these situations, Twitter reaches out to the owner of the account and unless they validate the account and reset the passwords, Twitter will keep them locked with no ability to log in. This week, the company will be removing these locked accounts from follower counts across profiles globally.
A few important things to note about this update are as follow:
http://www.marketing-interactive.com/improving-user-experience-twitter-to-remove-non-credible-follow-counts/
orget the nightmare of cropping your photos so they look good on Twitter. The platform is now using AI to always show the best parts of your photos.
Here is a great example of what AI and machine learning should really be about: bringing a solution to things that can ruin the user experience, like badly cropped images on Twitter.
https://wersm.com/twitter-is-using-ai-to-show-the-best-parts-of-your-photos/
The lure of machine learning isn’t always about big new features; often, what it does best are small tweaks that subtly improve user experience. So it is with Twitter’s use of neural networks to automatically crop picture previews to their most interesting part.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/25/16931632/twitter-machine-learning-auto-image-cropping/
