Twitter’s its latest tinkering with its members’ timelines appears to be ticking off more than a few tweeters. The experiment opens timelines to tweets members’ followers have tagged as favorites, as well as to some popular tweets gleaned from their followers’ timelines. “Changing the rules of engagement for users without notice is very Facebookian of you Twitter,” tweeted Peter Singer, Boston Celtics senior director for digital media. “Please reconsider the ‘favorites’ experiment.”
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Twitter Experiment Elicits Howls of Disapproval
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. August 18, 2014 05:40 PMTwitter’s its latest tinkering with its members’ timelines appears to be ticking off more than a few tweeters. The experiment opens timelines to tweets members’ followers have tagged as favorites, as well as to some popular tweets gleaned from their followers’ timelines. “Changing the rules of engagement for users without notice is very Facebookian of you Twitter,” tweeted Peter Singer, Boston Celtics senior director for digital media. “Please reconsider the ‘favorites’ experiment.”