Twitter Dashboard, the app aimed at business users, is shutting down on February 3 — just over seven months since it was launched. However, its demise may not be so bad for the larger Twitter community.
Arriving in late June, Dashboard was described as a “a powerful tool designed to help businesses connect with their customers and community.” Among its features is a customized feed, tweet scheduling, personalized notifications, and tweet recommendations.
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The Dashboard team broke the news of its upcoming closure in a series of tweets, claiming that the app had received “overwhelming positive feedback” during its short spell. Dashboard will continue to post its users scheduled tweets, which can be managed from TweetDeck (a desktop tool that offers a similar scheduling function). In a separate tweet, Twitter product and engineering manager Noah Pepper confirmed that both the Dashboard web and mobile apps are to be shut down.
A glimmer of hope for Dashboard users came with the announcement that the app will have its “best features” integrated into Twitter for the benefit of the broader community. The app’s team did not clarify which features it was referring to, but the customization options offered by Dashboard should appeal to most active users of Twitter’s flagship platform. We reached out to Twitter for a comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
The fact that Twitter already had TweetDeck as its tool for hardcore users and its Engage analytics app for celebrities in its arsenal, may have limited Dashboard’s potential audience. At the time of its launch, we noted that it was likely being used as a springboard for turning business users into advertisers — perhaps that didn’t go as planned. It also didn’t help that Dashboard remained an iOS exclusive, cutting off Android users as a result.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
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Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
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What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?