If Twitter is going to fix its growth problem, it's going to have to make some drastic moves — and, with an update today, that means even changing the timeline.
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I don’t ♥ Twitter’s decision to abandon the ★. The change may reflect an identity crisis for the social network known for the 140-character message. 
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Here is the 8,000-word piece about what Twitter can be, written by shareholder Chris Sacca. The piece was written just days before Twitter ousted CEO Dick Costolo in favor of replacing him with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Twitter has its loyal users, but its struggle remains in getting people comfortable with using the social network and coming back to it again and again. Many users sign up, but abandon accounts.
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By liking and retweeting every pointless and inconsequential Tweet in the past we have given the Twitter algorithm an untrue insight into what we really want to see. You will be served up with everything based on your past history this way, not what is truly meaningful. If you surround yourself with celebrities and like everything they say, that’s all you’ll ever see. Conversely, if you like tweets about local affairs and politics, then you’ll miss out on Kim Kardashian’s latest line of elastic band lingerie. It’s not all bad…
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Jack Dorsey fancies himself a philosopher. He fancies himself an artist. He fancies himself a fashion designer. And he fancies himself the kind of man who can run two multibillion-dollar companies at the same time. Between those ambitions and that beard, Dorsey sounds a bit like the most interesting man in the tech world. Which might be, at this point, exactly what Twitter needs.
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