[rewrew]

Moments is a prime example of how out of touch Twitter is. I've clicked on it three times to see, and each time the stories are celebrities or sports. They know enough about who I follow, what I tweet about and the hashtags that come up to target enterprise technology ads to me, why can't they use the same data to customize that page? It's utterly useless in its current form.

[kristianc]

Useless to you, but you're probably not in the target demographic for the feature.

Moments is about lowering the bar to new users of Twitter (the discovery problem) and get existing users more engaged in sharing content so Twitter is more valuable to them.

For those users, celebrities and sports is exactly what's going to draw them in. Twitter can then sell ads against those users.

I'd be surprised if it had any kind of algorithmic targeting any time soon, or if enterprise tech firms were looking to get involved in producing native Moments content in any serious numbers.

[justinsaccount]

Before Moments there used to be a tab that showed you tweets that your followers were replying to. I used to use that all the time to find new people to follow.

[will_hughes]

Way back in the beginning, when you followed someone you got all their tweets - including replies to people you don't follow.

Then they made it an option to not get these, then they took away that option and made it mandatory.

This, plus their really terrible behavior towards developers (still going on, as evidenced by their continuance of the 100K tokens limit per app) has seen me basicly stop using the service entirely.

[cshenton]

Especially when compared to Facebook's news sidebar. When it came out I remember it was similar to moments, lots of celeb and sports news. Now it knows only to show me politics and gaming news.