Twitter's Retweets Feature: Too Loud, Turn it Down
Twitter's been rolling out its new Retweets functionality to users in batches, but pretty much everybody has the upgraded features by now. Seems like most people HATE how retweets work. Me? I just think it complicates everything again. Remember when Twitter turned off the ability to see your friends' replies to people you weren't following in your timeline without asking anyone and a bunch of people (including myself) got all bent out of shape about not being part of the decision-making process? Well, after about a week the consensus was that timelines were a lot cleaner overall and everybody sort of got over it.
My timeline is totally out of control again with all these stupid retweets. Ok fine, sometimes I'm like "hey that's kinda cool, I'm glad it got brought to my attention" but more often I'm like "ugh, that's do dumb, why would he retweet that?" I realize that I can choose to "hide" particular people's retweets (notice how @scobleizer always retweets @scoblemedia? KILL ME, KILL ME NOW, SWIFTLY), but that's still a lot of manual work on my end. I understand that Twitter's grown so much that there's a need to keep some order in the system, but I'm already missing the simplicity of it all.
Oh yeah, and then there's this. Sigh. I don't know what's happening, and quite honestly I don't really care.
My timeline is totally out of control again with all these stupid retweets. Ok fine, sometimes I'm like "hey that's kinda cool, I'm glad it got brought to my attention" but more often I'm like "ugh, that's do dumb, why would he retweet that?" I realize that I can choose to "hide" particular people's retweets (notice how @scobleizer always retweets @scoblemedia? KILL ME, KILL ME NOW, SWIFTLY), but that's still a lot of manual work on my end. I understand that Twitter's grown so much that there's a need to keep some order in the system, but I'm already missing the simplicity of it all.
Oh yeah, and then there's this. Sigh. I don't know what's happening, and quite honestly I don't really care.
