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Comment by talaketu | Hacker News Reader

Do you really believe twitters product managers did not considered people might be cramming to tweet?

Twitter only used to show you tweets from people you followed, in chronological order, each tweet exactly once. Those product managers then decided to pepper your timeline with tweets you "may have missed", tweets from people you don't follow but that were liked by others and passed a randomized test, and all this out of order and with duplicates. Of course you cannot turn any of this off (except by using another than the official web client).

So no, I wouldn't trust the product managers to make intelligent decisions.

Why would someone use any app or page from twitter though? Great alternatives have existed from the very beginning, and they are still much better than the official clients. I haven't noticed any commercial messages, any "suggested" tweets etc. Just nicely rendered chronological timeline (I use tweetbot for iOS)

They don’t support all of twitter’s features, like group DMs, thanks to twitter closing off their API. It’s quite annoying.

Right. I never used any other features than the original twitter features (read a firehose of chronological tweets and reply/post from time to time). I did notice that when they introduced the "Poll" feature, it's not in the API though. Third party clients just show the question but not the alternatives (Makes you look kind of dumb replying in text to the question too which is annoying).

Honestly for me it's because they (desktop replacements) all seem to split everything into multiple columns. I dislike that design and just can't seem to gel with it.

As for mobile I've actually not had any problem with the official iOS app after setting my account to display tweets chronologically

No, we believe that the product manager is voluntarily not talking about it.

Thank you, someone who gets my point. I'm sure Twitter are smarter than this, but why do they assume their readers lack critical thinking.

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