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nickdouglas:
THANKS FOR MAKING DIRECT MESSAGES A PAIN IN THE ASS, TWITTER
Building a fancy graphical email to deliver a 140-character direct message is like giving someone a pair of scissors wrapped with a box and a bow. And leaving a typo in it (did you write your site copy on an iPhone?) is like using Christmas paper on a birthday gift.
Also it’s real convenient how you stuck some boilerplate text before the actual message so I can’t get a gist of the content on preview.
They fixed the ONE THING that wasn’t broken.
Amen! Now all auto-preview shows its “Hi, Joe Schmitt. You have a new direct message: [person’s name]” which is no use to me becuase the From line says who its from and the subject line says “Direct message from [person’s name]”. I guess user testing revealed people don’t read subject lines before opening?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/MlgRLzY1yn6ca0xbebaEhLfYo1_500.jpg)
THANKS FOR MAKING DIRECT MESSAGES A PAIN IN THE ASS, TWITTER
Building a fancy graphical email to deliver a 140-character direct message is like giving someone a pair of scissors wrapped with a box and a bow. And leaving a typo in it (did you write your site copy on an iPhone?) is like using Christmas paper on a birthday gift.
Also it’s real convenient how you stuck some boilerplate text before the actual message so I can’t get a gist of the content on preview.
They fixed the ONE THING that wasn’t broken.
Amen! Now all auto-preview shows its “Hi, Joe Schmitt. You have a new direct message: [person’s name]” which is no use to me becuase the From line says who its from and the subject line says “Direct message from [person’s name]”. I guess user testing revealed people don’t read subject lines before opening?
3 years ago
