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Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders | The Breakdown

2024/11/21
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David Lieb
从 Bump 到 Google Photos 的创业之路和 YC 组合伙伴的角色
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Tom Blomfield 认为推特过度关注用户参与度等单一指标，导致内容质量下降，用户体验变差。他建议产品创始人应该专注于解决用户的核心问题，并拥有清晰的产品愿景。David Lieb 指出，推特的算法推荐机制虽然能提高用户参与度，但同时也带来了大量无意义内容，需要更谨慎地控制和提供更清晰的用户反馈机制。他还对推特更名X以及付费蓝标认证等策略提出了质疑。

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The discussion begins with the challenge of measuring user value and the pitfalls of optimizing for a single metric, emphasizing the importance of founders maintaining a clear vision.
  • Optimizing for a single metric can lead to unintended consequences.
  • Founders have moral authority to steer the company based on their vision.

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Since Twitter rebranded to X, the platform has added new features and implemented a few major updates to both its UX and algo.

So what can founders interested in product design learn from all this?

In the first episode of our new series, The Breakdown, YC’s Tom Blomfield (co-founder of Monzo) and David Lieb (creator of Google Photos) take a closer look at X to find what lessons there are for founders building consumer products.