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About a month ago, Twitter rolled out a new feature<\/a> that would show you a bunch of random shit in your notifications tab.<\/p>\n For example, if a couple of people that you follow liked a tweet, it\u2019d show up in your notifications tab. If someone followed someone else, boom! There it was in your notifications tab. If people you follow start tweeting about the same topic or article\u2026 well, you get the gist.<\/p>\n I get it. Twitter is desperate for engagement. The company posted 328 million total users for Q2 2017, which happens to be the same amount of users the company reported in Q1. Stocks fell 12 percent. It was a very bad day<\/a>.<\/p>\n So it\u2019s not surprising that Twitter would look to Facebook, which does the same thing and only continues to growh, and wonder \u201cWhat if?\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m positive that Twitter\u2019s engagement is up because of the switch, which translates to them as: random-ass notifications = good<\/em> thing.<\/p>\n If people are engaging, they must<\/em> love the new notifications, right?<\/p>\n No.<\/p>\n Most social media use is narcissistic. You post content, like other people\u2019s content, and they like yours, and so the cycle continues.<\/p>\n There are unselfish reasons to get on Twitter. Boredom is a big one. I\u2019m also instantly drawn to Twitter during real-time crises or events. But the most powerful reason to open up Twitter, at least for me, is a push notification about someone interacting with my tweets.<\/p>\n From what I\u2019ve seen since the roll-out, Twitter\u2019s \u2018random\u2019 notifications feel a bit more cautious than Facebook\u2019s, which seemingly include all<\/em> the activity of one\u2019s Facebook friends, from posted a picture, to made a comment, to changed a profile picture, etc.<\/p>\n Still, there is an easy alternative to clogging up Twitter notifications with stuff about other people: the Instagram way.<\/p>\n Instagram is not without its own engagement-seeking flaws \u2014 I still loathe the algorithmic feed<\/a> \u2014 but the notifications tab on Instagram is separated into two tabs: me and following. Following shows the activity of folks that you follow, such as their likes, their new follows, and comments. The \u201cme\u201d tab shows stuff that has to do with you and your posts.<\/p>\n Another gripe: it\u2019s one thing to put notifications about other people in the notifications feed, and it\u2019s a totally different (and outrageous) thing to put in a push notification.<\/p>\n That said, Twitter has at least implemented a way to \u201cSee less\u201d of these types of notifications, which you can access by clicking the down arrow in the top right corner of the notification.<\/p>\n Knowing full-well that this plea will fall on deaf ears, I march onward:<\/p>\n Twitter, I beseech you. Don\u2019t dilute the notifications tab of your platform. You refuse suspend or expel 45 (whether for the right<\/a> or the wrong<\/a> reasons), and he must<\/em> be helping your engagement. Don\u2019t use something as sacred as the notifications tab to get better engagement. Don\u2019t punish those of us who regularly use your service. Use him, instead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Article source: http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunch\/social\/~3\/YWRs_Gx0qEY\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About a month ago, Twitter rolled out a new feature that would show you a bunch of random shit in your notifications tab. For example, if a couple of people <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,7,14,15,6,12,11],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-update","tag-computer-news","tag-downloads","tag-microsoft-download-news","tag-networking-updates","tag-technology-update","tag-wordpress-plugin-download","tag-wordpress-theme-download"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/bdcb9_giphy-7.gif?resize=240%2C196&ssl=1\")
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