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Comment by hintymad | Hacker News Reader

What's curious to me is how Twitter made so few improvements so slowly during the past few years, when its Chinese counterpart, Weibo, could release waves of new features in fast pace. Not that all the new features are good in users' eyes, of course, but isn't fast iteration a motto in the Bay Area?

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Reminds me of the first part of Zawinski's law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."

Twitter could add features until it reaches feature parity with Facebook. But then it's no longer Twitter.

What defines a platform is its feature set. And by changing that you risk changing the platform.

Don't you think that scaling to handle global growth is a feature?

Sure, but how come other features can't be released in parallel?

Users throw a huge fit any time the slightest thing changes on twitter

New features can be made without changing the base service.

I don't blame them. I signed up in 2009 and I deleted my account a few years ago because, well... Twitter now is not what I signed up for. But I guess they have to move on. Things change, but that does not mean I have to like the changes.

Correction: Users throw a huge fit any time on twitter

Except twitters DAU has been pretty steady at around 300-315 million since 2015.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly...

Yeah, and Twitter’s user base has not increased much. Scalability is not really that much of problem.

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