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@flyosity This is what I always wanted too. I think design had some concepts drawn up similar to this a long time ago, but they were lumped together into a “What you’ve missed” section. Sprinkled into a chron timeline would be good too.
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@martymadrid @jw I had a couple this morning. So they’re not completely out. Still no where near what my wife sees in her timeline. Counting my blessings while I’m spared.
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@jw Someone shipped code right before they left.
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@jw What’s strange is that I can’t remember the last time I saw an ad on Twitter. I just scrolled through 100+ tweets to check, and not a promoted tweet in sight.
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@kfury There are companies that exist solely for this purpose. They come in and take all the excess furniture, cut the downsized company a check, then resell them or supply other offices. Probably for not as cheap as you’d think.
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@ow @somefinetweets I can see this setup working really well when certain types of dishes need more frequent cycles than others.
We tend to run thru glasses and bowls faster. But plates and coffee cups (we have lots of) could spread out over more days. Silverware is a toss-up.
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@shuckle I really miss that density and variety of authors you could see at once.
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@ThomasSndbk @chockenberry @tamashii @Twitterrific I can’t find a definitive list or timeline of clients. Craig may have a better memory, or even know of such a list. I used to have an entire folder on my phone of Twitter iOS apps. I considered it part of my job to stay up on those. But they didn’t make it thru multi migrations.
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@blaine By the time I started in 09, I’m pretty sure we widely talked about the limit bring 15 chars. But I just accepted that as established. Once the colon and space were added after the username, I was always curious why not use the 3 rem chars that could have gone to the username.
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@blaine @chockenberry @tamashii @Twitterrific Lol. Of course you bring the receipts. Glad that 10-word+ whatever of a description Jack used never became a thing. I can imagine Biz taunting him about that. Curious if you recall Biz’s initial reaction to tweet, and how long it took for him (if anytime at all) to come around?
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@TVPaulD I don’t remember why we paired a heart with the new like word. I just remember conversations about not wanting to replicate FB’s thumbs up, because it was offensive in multiple countries.
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If you’re interested in the backstory behind the word “tweet”, Craig broke it all down almost 10 years ago. twitter.com/chockenberry/s…
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@f Think of all the characters you helped save!
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@stop @tamashii @chockenberry @Twitterrific Earliest example I can find (on Wayback) of Twitter using a bird on the homepage is 1 Nov 2007, which follows the launch of Twitteriffic (15 Jan 2007) by at least 9 months. web.archive.org/web/2007110102…
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@tamashii @chockenberry @Twitterrific It was certainly the best looking bird out of all of them.
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@tamashii @chockenberry @Twitterrific I knew someone might bring this up, and is correct iirc as well. Though I thought I remembered Twitteriffic calling them twits first. Biz was definitely not the first in the Twitterverse to call them tweets.
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@JeremyLittau Same. I just noted this morning you can still get that same feel with the Federated timeline on Mastodon. Similarly eccentric, serendipitous, and weird, just like the Everyone timeline.
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@stop Which is one reason why short usernames were so prized back then. You could literally fit an extra word or two into a reply to a short username.
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@stop Also, 140?!? How the hell did we (users) manage that for so long? I had trouble fitting some of these concise memories into 280 characters.
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@stop The bottom of the logged-in Home feed featured a “more” button to load in more updates, and a short list of tasks that Twitter suggested for new users to complete. Infinite scroll didn’t show up until #newtwitter in 2010.
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@stop The SUL was dramatically overhauled and split into multiple categories during the launch of #newtwitter in 2010, and further refined based on algorithmic interests a year later. I have no idea if it still exists in some type of form today for new account signups.
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@stop The accounts here were all from the SUL, or Suggested User List, which helped jumpstart new user accounts back then. The SUL became controversial, as many users wondered how it was composed. It was viewed as king-maker because users on it rapidly gained lots of followers.
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@stop In the feed, conversations/threads did not yet exist. Nor did any icons to take actions on each update. You had to click the timestamp to get to the “permalink” (the permanent URL) of each update.
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@stop Twitter actually supported an RSS feed of updates, and linked to it back then. Imagine the speed at which that would’ve updated, possibly crashing some RSS readers of the day.
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@stop Timestamps below updates were relative up to a certain n days ago, if I remember right. And after every timestamp was the source app used to push the update, which was a cool way back then to discover other 3rd party apps people were using for Twitter.
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@stop Profile avatars were still square. Without even any rounded corners yet. And we showed quite a few of them on your Home timeline, and on the profile page. So you could just click from profile to profile discovering new users without opening up follower/following lists.
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@stop Further down in the right column, was the “Everyone” timeline, where you could go to see every single status update from every single user (if you refreshed fast enough). Even in 2009, you rarely could track a single update between refreshes, because volume already was so high.
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@stop Updates you liked were called “favorites” and used a star icon. Some used them as signals to the original author, some used them as bookmarks to come back to later. “Favorite” was eventually deemed too strong, and we changed to “likes” and the heart to conform to other services.
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@stop At the top, “Find People” had prominent position as the only search you could do on twitter.com at the time. Twitter had just acquired Summize, and hadn’t yet completely integrated status search (they weren’t called Tweets yet!) into Twitter core yet.
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@stop Right below those stats were little definitions to introduce new users to tech and terminology on the platform, both from internal features, and from developers doing cool stuff with the API.
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@stop Note the three stats across the top right (following, followers, updates). One of my first tasks as CD was to figure out how to fit 7-digit numbers plus 2 commas into that column as @aplusk and @cnnbrk raced each other to a million followers. cnet.com/tech/services-…
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@stop The logo back then was just text, no bird. We didn’t start using a bird as (or in) a logo until we launched #newtwitter in 2010, which placed a bird next to the wordmark as a transition. We knew we eventually wanted a solo Twitter bird to be as iconic as the swoosh and the apple.
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@stop Also, the button was labeled “update”, because it *updated* your status, and the timeline was a bunch of status updates. Biz started calling them “tweets” on Twitter’s blog in 2008. But it wasn’t until about 18 months later when we started calling them Tweets in the UI.
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@stop The status update field included the 140-character countdown to keep you aware of how much space you had left. Max length of 140, because status updates were originally delivered through SMS, which had a limit of 160 characters, minus room for the 15-char username plus spaces.
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@stop First and most obvious to *me*, is the “What are you doing?” prompt. Twitter was still mostly a way to update your status, but was starting to convert to more of a pulse on what was happening throughout the world. We changed the prompt to “What’s happening?” about 4 months later.
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@stop Here’s a little tour and a bit of history around the eccentricities of that design for anyone who wasn’t around then. Or for anyone who just wants to nod in a “yep, remember that” kind of way.
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@dustin Oh yeah, I remember that. But maybe more because the same illustration was on our wall at the Bryant St office.
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@Malarkey I tweeted about it a couple times in those first few days. Some were just curious what I was using it for.
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@dustin Possibly one of these two? Which I think is the stock bird Biz used for a while. I think these are the only two that are anywhere close to your descrip.
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For posterity, here’s a screenshot of Twitter’s home timeline after creating a brand new test account during my first week there in 2009. I went looking for this to recall the name of the Everyone timeline. I have a whole folder of these from an audit I did that week.
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@jw Black Mirror ahead of you.
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@rogie @simplebits I also love the type-work (obviously Dan’s), and how the letters are getting all up in each other’s bizness.
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@benblumenrose @jessicahische @jina I haven’t jumped on the elephant yet. But someone pointed to this as a way of finding some of your friends. fedifinder.glitch.me