After days of not being able to change my Twitter background, I could do it.
I still have my van Gogh (Long Grass with Butterflies - the first van Gogh that I saw for real, and that still has a special place in my lil' heart), but it looks good again.
However...
Twitter has decided to force all their users in the entire world, all of Twitteropolis, to use their new profile layout.
First... they were raised in a barn (and SUCK at marketing... or think they're too big to fail - erm... MySpace, anyone???).
Then, that thing is one massive 'YUCK!!!': nasty new font, different sizes of tweets according to their so-called 'importance', and no more background photo.
Sorry, boys, but that profile is not me. It doesn't reflect who I am. That looks like a bad copy of Facebook, or Google+ or YouTube.
For once and for all, do read a few books and realize that uniformity is nasty and appeals only to very few people. Even low-tech users are growling right now (I've been monitoring the feed for "new twitter profile" for the past two days, coz reading that I wasn't the only one growling was making me feel better about the change, which I loathe ).
What's going to change? Zilch. Because someone has decided that the change was good and had to be forced down everybody's throats, whether Twitteropolis agreed or not.
I've read an article that compacted Twitter+Facebook into Twacebook. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too nice: it's Twatbook now, coz the Power-That-Be decided to do whatever they want without giving a damn (and believe me, I'm being super polite) about what their users, the people who are incidentally making this thing work, really want.
I can't speak for others, but my Twitter-time has been halved since I discovered my new (unwanted) profile.
Oi, Twitter Twatbook! I hope the bullet in your foot isn't too painful.
No love,
Dru
No comments:
Post a Comment