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Twitter is awful (slow, loses scrolling position all the time, breaks common functionality like copying URLs or opening in a new tab) but that's due to bad engineering and user-hostile design and not a flaw of PWAs.


> loses scrolling position all the time

I managed to convince myself that I'm not using twitter website correctly because it happens to me all the time - after digging into some comment/thread I want to return to 'main' thread and it returns to the beginning, after that I often give up and just close tab, this is incredibly frustrating and infuriating!

I'm pretty sure that's somehow my fault because it would be insane that one of most frequently used service in the world and company which employs most skilled 10x workforce is unwilling or incapable to deal with problem like this.


Twitter's criteria for using the Twitter website correctly is to be looking at ads. Seeing useful content in between the ads is a side-effect only necessary to keep you there so you can look at ads.

They have absolutely no incentive in making your usage of Twitter more efficient as it would 1) decrease the "engagement" metrics and 2) give you less opportunities to look at ads if you just see the content you want directly.

Social networks need to strike a fine balance between extracting the maximum value out of the user (profit) while giving them the least possible value (expense). They believe the current system achieves this balance, which I sadly have to agree with because the average user's bullshit tolerance is orders of magnitude higher than ours and they will put up with a lot of shit without leaving the platform.

> which employs most skilled 10x workforce

There are still scammers replying to high-profile accounts with obvious spam such as fake cryptocurrency giveaways, something which can be filtered out with simple regular expressions. I would like to add a very big "[citation needed]" to Twitter having significant skill in house, whether it's engineering or management. Whatever skill they had when they initially built & scaled the platform seems to be long gone.




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