Less than 24 hours after making a major change to the way that Twitter works, the company has reversed the change and thanked users for “helping us discover what’s important!” The new new policy may be just as confusing as the old new policy, but we offer a chart below explaining just how this all works. (Update: See below, this may actually not be a substantive reversal.)
This is no small matter – this is a fast unfolding story about the technical and social texture of the real-time social graph. To read our original coverage of the issue, and why it’s a big deal, see our post Twitter Puts a Muzzle on Your Friends: Goodbye People I Never Knew. For our speculation on the technical and social rational behind the change, see our post from this morning, Is This Why Twitter Changed Its Replies Policy? For a chart explaining it all with arrows and a picture of a drunk bird, see below.
This Isn’t Insanity, This Is The Future Being Figured Out
