Hands on with Twitter Moments: The human-curated news stream

Twitter Moments was not designed with me in mind, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

I’ve been on Twitter, once known as simply a micro-blogging service, since 2007 and have never really looked back. It’s both my inner and outer voice. The place where I get to share what’s important and wax random 140-character thoughts. It’s my number one news destination and the place where I’ve made dozens of digital friendships. I get Twitter and it, I think, gets me.

But there aren’t enough of “me's” (not something anyone has ever said out loud). In recent years, Twitter’s user base growth curve has resembled a very flat and seemingly endless plateau. The company has tried many things to help reenergize growth, most recently replacing one CEO with an old CEO who also happens to be the father of Twitter. Read more...