It took longer than it should have but Twitter has finally decided to kill the suggested user list – the one that automatically added 20 high-profile people to follow for all new Twitter users.
The list was sophomoric because it was all the cool people culled from a master list of about 500 celebrities, athletes and politicians on Twitter as opposed to provide new users with a useful tool that would help them find people who met their specific interests. In the end, all that suggested users really did was artificially promote the popularity of certain Twitter users such as Ashton Kutcher.
“That list will be going away,” Twitter co-founder BiStone said at a conference in Malaysia. “In its stead will be something that is more programmatically chosen, something that actually delivers more relevant suggestions.”
Translation: Suggested users was a terrible ideas, we’ve been bashed around for using it, and now we’re killing it.
To be honest, the recent introduction of Lists is a much better and more valuable way for Twitter to provide new users with people to follow because you can select lists that meet your personal or professional needs and interests.
For more on the death of suggested users, check out this story in the Washington Post.
RIP: Twitter’s Suggested Users
It took longer than it should have but Twitter has finally decided to kill the suggested user list – the one that automatically added 20 high-profile people to follow for all new Twitter users.
The list was sophomoric because it was all the cool people culled from a master list of about 500 celebrities, athletes and politicians on Twitter as opposed to provide new users with a useful tool that would help them find people who met their specific interests. In the end, all that suggested users really did was artificially promote the popularity of certain Twitter users such as Ashton Kutcher.
“That list will be going away,” Twitter co-founder BiStone said at a conference in Malaysia. “In its stead will be something that is more programmatically chosen, something that actually delivers more relevant suggestions.”
Translation: Suggested users was a terrible ideas, we’ve been bashed around for using it, and now we’re killing it.
To be honest, the recent introduction of Lists is a much better and more valuable way for Twitter to provide new users with people to follow because you can select lists that meet your personal or professional needs and interests.
For more on the death of suggested users, check out this story in the Washington Post.