Fail Limit Exceeded: Cheryl on the decline of Twitter
Cheryl's recent post for Medium on June's rate limit "feature" release was promoted as a Staff Pick, sent out in several large-distribution Medium newsletters including Longreads, and met with some great discussion and discourse. In this piece, Cheryl breaks down the potentially unintended consequences of these restrictions and how they cut to the core of what made Twitter so special. She also uses the PICS framework from her book Design Beyond Devices to talk about how to evaluate decisions like this in the future. Read "Fail Limit Exceeded" on Medium. "Either way, Twitter has successfully pivoted from the world’s town square…
