X or Twitter



 


I found X particularly easy to the use. I was able to easily pin items of interest to my homepage like Huddersfield university and sports Journalism, because I’ve done this, I can keep a closer eye on my interests than what I usually do. The ability to go directly to certain users from the homepage just overall, made it a lot simpler and easier to use. The fact I’m able to do this in a relatively fast pace just made my user experience far better. In comparison to Facebook the account making process was significantly easier takin mere minutes as it only required a valid email, and didn’t ban me after I made the account like Facebook did.

X’s main USP being the ability to directly @ people has allowed me to directly address my friends in the past and has allowed for far faster conversations amongst us in a group or even having secondary chats just amongst a few of us. This feature in my opinion just creates a far more friendly user experience, however I could maybe see drawbacks if you have a significant number of followers your homepage could become congested with conversation which are little to no interest to you.

The ability to separate your own tweets into threads is a useful idea, as you can see directly your own opinions on a specific subject directly underneath one another so that you can easily access and share information in a far less confusing way. The negative I found was that if I made the post without originally pressing the plus button to create the thread there was little ability to recover it without directly remaking the first comment, which was a bit of a hassle but once I got used to it, it was easy to do and required little effort whatsoever.

Another negative is the 280-character count, this did stop me rambling on and forced me to get straight to the point of my piece, but I feel like this could be easily increased and could be if I wanted to spend money on it. The fact its restricted to characters and not words I found quite frustrating just because trying to cut down specific words is just a mess, so I feel like it would be far easier to use a word-based limiting system so that way I could say exactly what was on my mind.

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