Great takes on Twitter from Bloomberg’s Tae Kim

Twitter is easily my preferred platform. Easy to use, fun to interact on and its simple interface makes it perfect for news and other types of stories and multi-media stuff.

Bloomberg’s Tae Kim has some solid insight today on the state of the platform. I’ve cut and pasted his opinion piece below. Follow him here, and me here.

Enjoy. And, here’s a full link to the story.

Super Follows’ slow start

There’s a joke on Twitter about Twitter that goes like this: The biggest innovation the company achieved after spending billions on research and development over the last five years was doubling the character count of a tweet.

That characterization isn’t exactly fair, but there’s enough truth in it to make it funny.

In the face of such criticism, early this year Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey promised a different mentality. At the company’s analyst day he vowed that Twitter would “double development velocity” of features to achieve its long-term financial goals. The message was clear: Twitter was on a new course, headed for rapid-fire innovation and game-changing product rollouts.

But now that the early returns are in, a lot of people are still using Twitter in much the same way they did five years ago. And unless the social-media platform fundamentally rethinks how it develops products, that may not change anytime soon.