Stritar's chronolog

Twitter's User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:30:35 GMT

Twitter's new timeline is here, and it's all about the algorithm

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:43:49 GMT

The End of Twitter

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 06:28:51 GMT

Here's how Twitter's new algorithmic timeline is going to work

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:50:10 GMT

RT @papsl: How to add a number to another number in JavaScript? :) #javascript https://t.co/PNlW4ENRWv

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:06:54 GMT

Six Degrees of Separation? Facebook Finds a Smaller Number

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:12:21 GMT

Elon Musk personally bans blogger from buying a Tesla Model X

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:22:14 GMT

It's official. Software rules the world. $goog > $aapl https://t.co/ZVUkW5atc1

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:32:34 GMT

Apple's iPad Pro outsells Microsoft Surface tablets in debut quarter

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 08:36:58 GMT

Alphabet Becomes The Most Valuable Public Company In The World

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 08:28:45 GMT

$goog > $aapl #omg

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 22:09:40 GMT

@AndrazLogar dela pa 10b dobicka na quarter :)

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:38:35 GMT

Top tech companies by market cap #goodtoknow #nyse $aapl $goog $msft $fb $amzn https://t.co/mdhGD6GNtt

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:42:24 GMT

Google's Go Victory Is Just a Glimpse of How Powerful AI Will Be

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:49:07 GMT

RT @ljkucic: Ideal spletne medijske ekonomije: boti pišejo vsebine, ki jih klikajo agregatorski boti in jih prodajajo oglasnim botom. #whon…

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 20:05:29 GMT

RT @jure: Fifteen ideas for Twitter to transform into a profitable user-centered business https://t.co/OirLGOMSpz

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:12:38 GMT

@betmenka popeces na vrocem maslu al pa v frizer.

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:55:35 GMT

A New Business Model for Twitter

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:07:41 GMT

RT @rodpetrovic: Health in the IT industry should become a hot topic. https://t.co/8w2UlfWIsk

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:23:12 GMT

The problem with AI is that it has the potential to deliver SOOO much value. Remember the #matrix and #zeroone? https://t.co/inDPyu4uhf

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:07:50 GMT

Or: what happens when Google's and Facebook's AI directly confront each other, which will inevitably happen on different fronts?

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:56:25 GMT

As far as we know, Google's search AI may have already started running its own agenda. Nobody would even notice.

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:43:28 GMT

Facebook Climbs To 1.59 Billion Users And Crushes Q4 Estimates With $5.8B Revenue

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:49:29 GMT

Google's AI just cracked the game that supposedly no computer could beat

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:16:56 GMT

Guess how many iPhones Apple sold in 2015?

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 06:55:41 GMT

The G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶ Alphabet ($AAPL vs $GOOG) https://t.co/DYj1JNwkbY

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:04:32 GMT

Changing the Twitter Conversation

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:15:53 GMT

Ko bom velik, bom imel tisoč followerjev.

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:04:42 GMT

The Future Is Near: 13 Design Predictions for 2017

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:44:47 GMT

10 Creative Tweets That Will Make You Rethink Twitter

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:30:19 GMT

This is Microsoft's iPhone keyboard

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:36:22 GMT

P Vs. NP: The Assumption That Runs The Internet

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:08:26 GMT

RT @darylginn: The 5 stages of debugging: 1. What? 2. Why? 3. How? 4. Impossible. 5. Oh.

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:25:56 GMT

Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:23:49 GMT

The SaaS Manifesto: Rethinking the Business of Enterprise Computing

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:19:48 GMT

Tesla Model S dominates luxury car market

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:17:10 GMT

Apple needs a new hit or Alphabet will overtake it as the most valuable company in the world

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:44:21 GMT

[Blog] Twitter beyond 140 characters - it could work https://t.co/1cM5S9OGnb #twitter $twtr #socialmedia

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:55:25 GMT

40 countries are working on killer robots and there's no law to say how we use them

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:23:07 GMT

[Blog] Twitter beyond 140 characters (at first I was like #wtf but then i was like #yeah) https://t.co/1cM5S9OGnb https://t.co/GfrkmWr1E2

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 23:02:12 GMT

Twitter beyond 140 characters

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:20:41 GMT

Twitter is in big trouble. The user growth has stopped and the world is waiting to see if Jack Dorsey can turn things around. One of the latest rumors is that Twitter will soon resort to one of its biggest gambles yet, and remove its signature 140-character limit, which has always been of the key differentiators of the service. Can this be true? Does this even make sense?

Let's start at the beginning. In my opinion, Twitter’s two main competitive advantages (compared to Facebook) are:

real time stream, which means relevancy. I’m not saying it's better than Facebook’s filtered stream, but it certainly delivers a different way of consuming content.
density of information, resulting from the above-mentioned limit, which means speed. This, again, makes a big difference in examining information, compared to similar services.

The combination of the two is what makes Twitter Twitter. At first glance, it seems increasing the tweet limit to 10,000 characters would totally mess up this user experience. But this doesn’t need to be the case, if the expansion is done properly. Actually, people have already been adding more characters to tweets by embedding print screens of quotes or articles as pictures. Why should additional tweet text be any different? The solution is simple, this upgrade has to be in the form of a text attachment.

A simple workaround of adding text as a picture that everybody's been using.

A link uses 23 characters of a tweet. A picture takes 24, the same goes for a poll or a quoted tweet. This logic could be applied to "extended tweets" as well, and as since I'm a big fan of Twitter, I'm truly hoping this is the way Jack will go. Information on the web always comes in multiple components. Google use titles and (meta) descriptions in search results, emails have a subject and a body, Facebook embedded links use a similar information structure, ditto for articles on news sites, etc. This actually makes sense. The microblog becomes the blog, if required, and everybody's happy.

A simple solution that solves a lot of problems and doesn't change the core user experience.

But if I’m wrong and actual tweets will support 10,000 characters in a single text field, Twitter is probably done for it. Removing this character limit feature will simply make the service too generic and not useful for many cases it is used for at this point. Lately, a lot of power users have already left Twitter, and if the rest of them leave as well, there won’t be any good reasons for new users to come in the first place.

UPDATE (23.2.2016): Awkward... It seems Twitter's Jack Dorsey has been talking about the same thing a few weeks before this post, which I somehow missed.

OMG tale @jakasibicekaka ima pa še več Twitter profilov kot jaz :) #zasavje #ninja

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:10:42 GMT

Pol papirnate, pol plastične vrečke od kruha moram dati v:

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:46:49 GMT

RT @alivea: Internets https://t.co/xUBpI3O2o3

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:42:25 GMT

How much would it cost to build a Star Destroyer?

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:58:41 GMT

Oracle just revealed how much money Google makes from Android

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:53:04 GMT

ASP.NET 5 is dead - Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:21:57 GMT

Magical Night Photography Of Tokyo’s Streets by Masashi Wakui

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:27:44 GMT

$FB now worth around 23x more than $TWTR. O.o #socialmedia #perspective

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:39:26 GMT

A tole kej pove o #bric > #g7? OI 2014: Rusija. SP 2014: Brazilija. OI 2016 Brazilija. SP 2018: Rusija.

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:11:35 GMT