Just now Twitter announced its latest earnings report. This is a thing that Twitter has to do now that it's a public company and, let's be honest, the first couple of these were a bit fraught. The problem: Twitter had and continues to have a growth problem.
Some attribute this to the steep learning curve of Twitter's "onboarding" process and the amount of time and energy required for a user to build a feed that they want to come back to. It's not that there's a lack of interest in Twitter, it's that users aren't exactly sure how to proceed once they've created an account. To fix this, Twitter's done everything from executive shakeups to releasing a slew of new product updates that have included an instant, pre-fab timeline, and even (gasp!) inserting a few tweets it thinks you might like into your feed.
Twitter is a strange bird. Many of Twitter's defining features and quirks were invented by its users including hashtags, retweets, and the recently adopted tweetstorms. Twitter is starting to listen, too. Users have been calling for group DMs for years and the company finally added them last week. And just yesterday, an internal memo from CEO Dick Costolo demonstrated his deep dissatisfaction with the way the company deals with harassment, a statement that echoes the frustrations that countless users have expressed for years.
WIth that in mind, we turned back to Twitter's greatest innovation lab — its everyday users — to see what their hopes and dreams are for the service. So as not to put them on the spot (the best ideas happen when no one's looking) we culled them straight from the network themselves. And the results of this unwitting survey are pretty solid.
More Protection For Users:
I wish Twitter would introduce having a warning on explicit images that you need to click on before you can view it.
Get rid of spam more efficiently:
I wish Twitter would take people fake followers away like they did on Instagram lol
Better user analytics:
I wish Twitter would show how many times people have checked out your account. And who. Just curious.
I wish tweets had views like snap chat does
Better Spam Police:
I wish twitter would delete all the fake accounts, just like insta did 😒
Better GIF Support:
I wish @Twitter would let us use gifs as headers. 🙌
I wish twitter would still allow gifs as icons i'd snatch the hell out of this
I wish you could save gifs from Twitter 🔥
More personal information:
I wish Twitter had a relationship status.
Twitter After Dark:
I wish twitter had an 18 plus option
Clandestine Twitter:
Sometimes I wish Twitter had an anon message thing
Built in ego-check:
All verified twitter accounts should have a sentence in their bio explaining why the fuck I should know them.
Read Reciepts:
I wish Twitter had the setting to see if someone read your dms
I wish twitter had that seen thingy in the dms so we can really see if someone saw our dm
Voice messages:
I wish you could put like audio message things on twitter I'd be so entertained
NO.
I wish you could poke people on Twitter
Whoa.
I wish you could use twitter without internet
Twitter...... without....... i n t e r n e t .......
Anyway, food for thought.