Should Twitter Change Its Premise?
When Twitter launched in 2006, it asked users the question, “What are you doing?” People were given 140 characters to respond. These days, you will be hard pressed to find a Twitter user who consistently follows the original premise of the website. As I looked back to my Twitter front page just now, I noticed that only 1 of the 20 tweets shown answers the question “What are you doing?” The rest are either links to blogposts, random comments, or @Replies. Twitter has essentially evolved into a news feed/IM application.
So the question I ask you all is, “Should Twitter change its premise?” Most of you are probably asking yourselves, “Why does it even matter?” Well, to the current Twitter user, it doesn’t. It’s more of a technicality that could possibly help to draw-in new users who are unfamiliar with the brand. A question like “What is up?” is more open-ended and would help new brand users to understand what exactly Twitter is.
What do you guys think? Should Twitter change the question it has been asking its users to answer for years?
(Note: Sorry about the lack of spacing between paragraphs. For some reason Tumblr won’t allow me to add more spaces. Might have to switch to a new blogging site)
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