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Self Retweeting Enabled As Part Of Twitter’s Timeline Update

June 15, 2016 By Lori David Leave a Comment

A flock of Twitter-birds, symbolizing a tweet and its numerous retweeting.

Narcissistic users can now like their own tweet, before and after retweeting it.

Self retweeting is now possible on Twitter. Will the world be better, or worse, for it? Will it cause any changes at all?

Twitter is now allowing their users to be able to quote their own previous tweets either partially or entirely. While the community has received this with a wide variety of feelings, the feature was enabled as part of Twitter’s timeline changes.

Many users are simply labeling this as yet another step in the downwards spiral of humanity’s descent into the abyss. Others with a more optimistic view on things, meanwhile, have found some potentially useful uses for the feature.

First of all, self retweeting will allow users to claim authenticity with greater ease. If a user tweets something that just ends up being lost in the Twittersphere, it’s fine.

However, if another user tweets something similar (or the exact tweet, word for word, as it is often the case) much later and is given a lot of attention for it, the former user can now self retweet themselves as the latter’s reply.

Similarly, the self retweet can also be used as a “called it” tool for users who make predictions. Nevertheless, self retweeting is not meant to be a tool that helps users prove they were right or that others are wrong, it is intended to be a tool that streamlines and makes the process easier to view on the timeline.

It is also worth noting that a user can only self retweet a tweet once which means that people who really want to give that joke or jab a second try should really plan it for the best possible time.

And while speaking about planning, self retweeting could also be an effective means to fixing current scheduling issues that can occur, especially between continents due to timezones.

The Internet currently seems to see self retweeting as reminiscent of the selfie and of the massive uproar selfies caused before they started to part of today’s society.

It’s doubtful, however, that self retweeting will have the same effects upon the world as selfies did.

Along with self retweeting, Twitter will also be changing how the “@”, the main way of addressing other users, works within the timeline. Muting, blocking, and reporting users will also be a lot more accessible now, another feature which will streamline the content of Twitter’s timeline viewing.

Image Courtesy of Jisc.

Filed Under: Apps/Softwares Tagged With: Change, Retweeting, timeline, Twitter, Update. Narcissism

Twitter Investors Can’t Look Beyond Disappointing User Growth

October 28, 2014 By Brandi McCants Leave a Comment

Twitter investors still fear that the social-media company won’t be able to keep up with the growth of Facebook, its larger rival. It is true that Twitter reported on Monday that its revenue more than doubled once again in the third quarter, reaching $361 million, but investors still seem inconvincible.

Twitter’s users growth is what investors are interested in, and it seems that the numbers have slowed again in recent quarters

“We had another very strong quarter financially. I’m happy with the strategies and the quality of the work we’re doing but given our significant aspirations and the breadth of the opportunity in front of us, it’s more critical than ever that we increase our overall pace of execution.”

said Chief Executive Dick Costolo.images

The social-media company shares sank approximately 10% in after-hours trading on Monday, reaching $43,65. This took away roughly $3 billion in market value, in a drop that erased many of the stock advances Twitter made three months ago when shares had gone up 29%. As such, the San Francisco company had even more difficulty in convincing its investors that it is bigger than it seems, especially since Wall Street remains focused on user gains rather than money making. As they see it, the more users signing up and spending time tweeting, the more potential for advertising, which remains Twitter’s main revenue source.

Through September, the company added 13 million monthly active users, Twitter claimed, reaching 284 million worldwide users, adding up to a 4.8% increase. However, despite this increase, in line with some analyst’s expectations, investors still fear that the slower pace (inferior to the 6.3% added in the previous quarter) is not good news.

On Monday, Mr. Costolo described Twitter’s total audience as geometrically eccentric circles, saying that there are core users, those visiting the site without logging in and those seeing twitter content embedded on other sites. The latter group is currently the syndicated audience.

Apart from this one metric, it’s becoming less clear how “engaged” Twitter users are on the website. Timeline views, for instance, the company’s own measure of activity, has decreased 7% to 636 views per monthly active user. However, this metric fails to reflect other forms of engagement, such as shared tweets or profile pages visits.

“I don’t blame anyone who relies upon those metrics, but the long-term story will show that they aren’t good measures.”

Ken Sena, Evercore analyst said.

“We’re seeing good momentum behind Twitter from a demand standpoint, but it’s still early as a platform,”

Chris Amos, chief marketing at Ampush said.

 

 

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: revenue, third quarter, timeline, tweeting, Twitter, twitter posts, twitter quarter earnings, twitter users, user growth, users

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