The way I see it, Twitter was one of the last sites standing in the content curation game. Reddit’s great, but balkanised. HN itself is pretty good and broader but Twitter was the best product I used for kicking up stuff from around the web I might actually find worthwhile reading. Now it’s lost that function.
Was it a good business decision? No idea. But it’s made the product worse from this consumer’s perspective.
Was it a good business decision? No idea. But it’s made the product worse from this consumer’s perspective.