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Ask HN: How can new LinkedIn features replace Twitter?

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Find that use and appreciate LinkedIn so much more than Twitter. Curious how it could replace Twitter with a new feature or three. What would you add? Personally I’d love shorter form updates on problems and challenges that people are working on to crowdsource shared thoughts and collaboration.

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I personally wish LinkedIn would STOP trying to be a social platform. Their UX changes make it feel more instagram-ish with engagements, impressions, etc. I also DO NOT want to have media feeds...it's a frigging professional network.

I have talked to several influential recruiters in my area, and they have all said that LinkedIn has a MASSIVE identity problem...in one hand they sell our data to recruiters and on the other hand they are trying to drive engagement with these gimmicky engagement products.

They seem desperate to grow revenue with all these wonky product launches. Whoever was responsible for the A/B testing on those products to gauge market adoption really should be reprimanded.

Guess MS is finally expecting some ROI from their expensive acquisition....

LinkedIn has already become social media. There’s constantly instagram-ish photos near some text related to some tech, marketing or sales.

Personally, I do not understand what photo of huge cleavage has to do with “eshops should start using email marketing properly”

Agreed...also don't get me started on when ppl start to post highly political or controversial topics. I typically remove them from my network immediately.

It's a professional network...act accordingly?

Geopolitics/politics - that’s debatable. Those things effects business and our lives in the long run.

As for highly controversial - I would have agreed until last week, when I saw bunch of people, saying, that sexism isn’t big of an issue in workplace - and that was few days after one CEO, whos known for sexual abuse, was blantout sexist and homophobic on national TV. You can just imagine what kind of environment is to work there - and IMO it’s beneficial to everyone to discuss that, so people can easier decide wherever they can work at particular workplace

This is where I would argue other sites like Glassdoor and others come into play.

I prefer not to blur the lines, but I guess in today's digital world that isn't possible. Just to be clear, I agree that we need to hold one another accountable in our actions...just not sure what makes the most sense.

Unfortunately, it’s not localised nor for mine, nor for most countries.

Exactly why I like it more than any other social platform. People have to be more accountable and so those posts are much rarer.

Cleavage photos are still rare (I hope amount just decreases), but everything else, including “lol (insert tech-stack) is lame” are majority (atleast in Europe) :/

It’s a social platform for me, and I don’t get the sense they are trying to drive revenue apart from justifying its existence in a public company. If anything it seems like MS is willing to subsidize at a cost and I’m surprised we have seen many more efforts tied to the office software suite.

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