Storyline

A new viewing experience for Twitter by Mark Cuban

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A new viewing experience for Twitter by Mark Cuban

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Fireside

Maker

It's a pain in the ass in twitter when something important to you happens and you want to know what a specific account you follow thinks about the situation Now you search your time line or do a search for the account then scroll through that accounts tweets No more with storyline A trade happens and u want to know what your fave sports commentators say, go right to their account and swipe easily through their tweets Breaking headlines and your time line is full of nonsense from people you can't remember why you follow , jump right to the authoritative account you want to hear from Using Twitter with storyline makes the experience far more valuable, faster, easier Within days you will find yourself reading more tweets and getting far more value from those tweets than ever before Try it and let me know ow what you think

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11yr ago

Dear Holmes

@mcuban What inspired this? What's on the roadmap for this? Is this a business for you, or a side project? If it's a business, are you worried about building a business around a platform you don't own

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11yr ago

Fireside

Maker

@msitver @mcuban it was out of need. Twitter was becoming less and less viable because of all the noise. We learned alot from our Cyber Dust users about how they get to information quickly. So we applied the same concepts. And yes its a business. THere is risk, but if we can dramatically change twitter for the better, my guess is that they will recognize its better to work with us

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11yr ago

VoiceMe

@mcuban anyway to contact you regarding this app and another app that would interest you similar to this?

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11yr ago

Product Hunt

@mcuban Twitter introduced "what you missed", surfacing compelling tweets users may not have seen and is said to be working on a non-chronological, algorithm-based feed similar to Facebook's news feed. I.e., Twitter might start to solve some of the challenges Storyline is designed to address. Does this concern you?

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11yr ago

Fireside

Maker

@rrhoover not even close. They guess and its actually annoying the way they have implemented. People use twitter in different ways. But one thing that has become certain, we all follow too many people and are afraid to delete them because of what we might miss when they comment on a topic that is important to us. With Storyline, if there is something happening right now and there is an account whose tweets you think will be helpful/informative/entertaining, whatever, its far easier in storyline to go right to that person If there is something pertaining to Shark Tank or The Mavs, would you rather trace through your timeline, have to remember my handle and then search for me , and then look for the relevant tweets, if any on twitter or use StoryLine and scroll down to mcuban from an alphabetical list and then swipe through my tweets to see my thoughts ? One is cumbersome the other is immediate. every day there is something we would like to hear from our twitter follows about, but every day our timelined is jammed with everything from the 100, 200, 300, or more people we follow. With Storyline you can quickly go to the account that you care about at that point in time. all What you missed does is fill up your time line with more stuff that they are guessing is relevant. not with Storyline. its faster, easier, more impactful

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11yr ago

@mcuban Have you guys thought about incorporating the ability to search by keyword/hashtag and see tweets from only people you follow? The Twitter app can do it, but it's buried 6 clicks deep and most people don't know it even exists. Something like that would allow you to view thoughts on a specific topic from people you follow without having to view each person individually (as they may not have weighed in on the subject yet). P.S. Looking forward to some Android love for this!

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11yr ago

Storyline

Maker

Thanks for checking out the app! For the past couple of months we have been hard at work building Storyline. Most people follow hundreds of users on Twitter and spend a large amount of time scrolling through their feeds everyday. While some people may check their feeds in the morning or before bed, others stay “plugged in” all day and are constantly refreshing their feeds to see what their friends are sharing. Because most of us struggle to find time to stay connected all day, we have developed an entirely new viewing experience for Twitter. Storyline delivers tweets from the past 24 hours. These tweets are clustered by user, allowing you to easily swipe through all of a user’s tweets from the past day. After a tweet is viewed it is removed from Storyline and never shown again. This prevents you from viewing duplicate content and allows you to finally have a stopping point with social media — which we call reaching “Social Media Zero”. We will be adding Storyline for many other social networks to make it even easier to consume and interact with content. While Storyline is only available for iOS devices, an Android update will be coming shortly. Feel free to contact us directly at info@getxpire.com if you have any questions or comments :)

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11yr ago

I applaud the effort, however I am struggling to find the need you are filling. Isn't the best way to filter the noise to unfollow. Regardless of whether you remembered why you followed them, the solution is to unfollow them. I guess what I am really struggling with is that Twitter is fundamentally like an all news AM radio station. You come in for the few minutes (or hours or whatever), get the info you are looking for and leave. Social Media Zero just seems to go against the very fabric of social media - a never-ending conversation that you can be a part of how you want, when you want. And to a previous point, the user experience is wonky having to switch apps. With the final thing being, what happens if Twitter does what it did it to Meerkat? Meerkat is clearly still kicking ass, however this app would be dead in the water? It's tough for me to invest in this idea and make it a habit with that looming. I apologize for being the crotchety guy on the porch yelling get off my lawn, however I don't see it.

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11yr ago

Wildcard (Pre-launch)

@zedsq mmm good points. Like the makers said lots of people use Twitter, and everyone uses it in a different manner. Different apps and experiences. I think this is an interesting experiment to show tweets differently, lets where this goes.

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11yr ago

Haha Mark Cuban is everywhere, saw him when he came to speak at my school. Sorting by users is cool, but I feel like it's a bit inflexible to have that as the only viewing option (especially for people that are used to the Twitter timeline). IMO it would be pretty useful to have a mode where you tap through all tweets, instead of having to do it person by person. Maybe with a back swipe to go back one tweet in case you accidentally skipped over something cool.

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11yr ago

Fireside

Maker

@bryantpeng this is just an early version. We didnt expect to be on Product Hunt this soon :). we have a ton of improvements coming, from sorting to syncing.

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11yr ago

Kyber

I love the concept as I always thought this should be the structure of Twitter feed (or a version of it). Now, I had to logout and log back in to get it work as nothing was loading the first time. Then I got an automatic tweet from the app to my account about activity on the app (I know you have a setting but it should be opt-in, not opt-out) and that is very bad imo, the got a Twitter rate limit error. So question is... Twitter has notoriously been against client apps that changes the experience of how the feed is consumed (hence rate limiting). How will you overcome the issue? Else is pretty cool and well thought.

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11yr ago

Storyline

Maker

@sivola Thanks for trying out Storyline! We are working on an update to fix some of the things you discussed. First off, we are going to add a screen during the setup process that asks users if they would like to share activity to Twitter instead of enabling it by default. We are also going to creatively work around the rate limits by caching tweets better. In our opinion, Storyline is not directly competing with Twitter's timeline, but instead offers an effective way to catch up with the large amount of social media. We focus on delivering bite-sized content and giving users the ability to stay on top of social news on the go.

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11yr ago

Awesome idea. I find myself not checking twitter that often because there's so much noise and I only follow about 300 people. I can't imagine what a timeline looks like when you follow thousands like some folks. Is there anything on the roadmap that would let you organize the people you follow? To use your example, if a trade goes down (like Rondo to the Mavs, too soon? sorry Celtic fan over here), it would be great to be able to just see all the people/companies I follow that are sports related so I can get right to the relevant bucket of tweets. That way I don't need to scroll through all the other non sports people I follow to find the ones I want for that specific topic. Anything that can make browsing easier and more organized in my feed is welcomed. Nice work @jesse_stauffer and @mcuban.

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11yr ago

Storyline

Maker

@markiyanm Glad you are liking the app so far! We are very interested in forming collections of tweets based around a topic or event. We will be experimenting with this in the near future and believe it will make it much easier to follow certain news. Thanks for giving it a go!

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11yr ago

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