[jsonne]

I think this is a good example of how optimizing for the power user, at a large scale, can actually be detrimental.

[xadhominemx]

How do you know that? The changes have not yet taken effect.

[Drumlin]

One of the main problems with Twitter is people sign up and don't know what to do with it - except message famous people. If Twitter prevents the plebs from shouting at the intelligentsia then it will make the platform even more irrelevant. The last time I used it, it was like talking into a void and that was with hundreds of real followers.