Erictric

Twitter announced on their official blog today that they have officially changed the question on top of the text box where everyone types their tweets. The default question used to be “What are you doing?” Which is probably why many people would even let the world know things that no one really needs to know, if you know what I mean. Now, the new question asks “What’s happening?” Which goes perfectly with the large amount of current events that are tweeted every minute.

Here’s a quote from the Twitter blog:

“People, organizations, and businesses quickly began leveraging the open nature of the network to share anything they wanted, completely ignoring the original question, seemingly on a quest to both ask and answer a different, more immediate question, “What’s happening?” A simple text input field limited to 140 characters of text was all it took for creativity and ingenuity to thrive.”

Though I am still not a fan of Twitter [at all], I think the new question is more appropriate. Hopefully, it helps to reduce the number of useless and pointless tweets about people’s personal and private situations.