[tarancato]

Semi-offtopic: this is what the front page of Twitter looks like for me.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s5LeMVvmcJ0/V_UeJYgxG6I/A...

There's this and two more tweets, in rotation. They are three sports-related Tweets from two years ago, with that shit image quality, and what's even more amusing: since I'm based in Spain, they believe I'm interested in Argentinian football, probably because I speak the same language (but Spaniards usually know absolutely nothing about sports from South America, neither are they interested in that).

Even better, the cookie use banner moves the tweet down, making it overlap with the footer.

And this has been like this for two years already. I guess nobody ever logs in in the company?

[sulam]

The logged out user experience was a topic of discussion since before I joined, and I spent over 4 years there and have been gone for almost 2. This is the real problem Twitter has internally -- lots of interest in improving things, but no intestinal fortitude to ship things, especially if they don't A/B test well. The logged out home page you see tests very well at one thing and one thing only: getting people to login. What it doesn't test well at (and no alternative demonstrated better performance at) is getting people who don't care about Twitter to try it.

My personal hypothesis is that Twitter is a ~500M user niche social network. Which sounds absurd to me, because when I started using the Internet there were ~15M people online, total. But there it is.

[Aaronn]

I wonder if that is a Spanish thing. For me, in the US, the Twitter front page has looked like this since Nov 2015 (https://web.archive.org/web/20151101000851/https://twitter.c...).

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sjFY1xcd8zjgSkpU_3AF1UP7vm...