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I think this is very true. Creating a Twitter account is like being force-fed the experience. They should move away from the step-by-step wizard idiom and instead do a tutorial mode... after creating your account in one step, they should just show little inline tips for getting started and then have a button to permanently stop showing the tips.

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Having worked on various versions of this flow, I think this is backwards. Taking the user step by step to follow their first people teaches them the important of following and starts them on the path of that as a long term habit. Simply dumping them into the product with a few pointers and tips is a much worse experience. Most companies miss the power of onboarding as a teaching experience by walking new users step by step through the actions that will matter long term in using a product

> Taking the user step by step to follow their first people teaches them the important of following

This bugs me about post-2010 Twitter and Facebook. Why do they now bias towards following instead of leadership?

i don't understand this comment. I was referring to following others on Twitter as a way to get information.

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