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Nikunj Verma asked a question
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If Twitter hires you as the Product Manager for its core product, what would be first 3 things you'd do?

These are tough days for Twitter. Their user growth is stagnant and the effort to turn around things are failing. They can't even find a buyer.

 

What 3 concrete steps would you take to save the product?

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Amol Mujumdar a Product Guy
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Twitter has been quite successful in getting people onboard.
It has been successful in kind of killing long sentences and force people to innovate around the 140* characters limit.
It has made conversation possible inplace of lenghty monologues.
And ...Its quite successful in , may or may not be intetional, in posing itself as the "dirt repository". (people actually dig out old tweets to prove their point).

Now what it has failed in are...
Keeping people engaged. It's perfectly fine to be on and off on it. Most of the time you wont miss anything. While Fb kind of makes you feel like missing your life if you are off.
Setting new trends. For quite a long time twitter has become "also". They also have emojis. they also have this and that kind of. Nothing of the sort "pioneer".
Live. Twitter is the platform for "live dicussion" about events but not for the live events itself.

I'd start working on the above 3 issues fright from day one, if hired.

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Shailesh Maheshwari Exploring twitter with product lense
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Twitter started there game using the "Influencer/follower Model" with full push, as they wanted to engage people in broadcast mode when they are merely talking and mostly listening. The appeal would have gone down the bin if they tried to integrate social engagement in there portfolio, as facebook was playing that game really well. The product management introduced hash tag movement in there product mix with perfect timing and political and other international activity generated rigor which they needed. Now twitter has mastered game of controlling trends and is driving in a really comfortable space. In the age when elections and business strategy is decided based on trend data this model is far from failure.
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