Challenges of Instagram's "Popular" & Twitter's "Discover"
Via Twitter, I asked whether people use Instagram's "Popular" or Twitter's "Discover" tabs to find new content. Wasn't expecting to publish results but a few people asked, so here you go:
- Yes, on Instagram
@hunterwalk twitter: no. IG, yes...I've had positive experiences finding cool celebs and brands to follow that I wouldn't have otherwise.
@hunterwalk yes on @Instagram - photo is unbias. Appreciate purity of a photo. no on @Twitter. Enough topics that I care about from my feed.
@hunterwalk Discover on Twitter seems like stuff that didn't make Huffpo cut. Never click on it. Instagram 'popular' much more interesting.
@hunterwalk popular on instagram yes - simple/beautiful. discover on twitter now - what the hell does it do?
@hunterwalk ok, once in a while on instagram, just to be nosey and see what is popular at the time.
@hunterwalk click 'popular' ~10% of time to see "best quality" pics; click 'discover' to see if content has improved/become more customized- Yes, on Twitter
@hunterwalk Rarely to Instagram Popular. Yes to Twitter Discover, for searching a particular hashtag or a handle's timeline activity.
@rfradin @hunterwalk I found out two things this morning that were valuable via Discover and current anyway. One was a race winner.
@hunterwalk yes for twitter no for instagram. Huge difference in relevance- news/events vs. images.- No!
@hunterwalk no...if i want to dicscover something, i go to the connect tab n search for it
@hunterwalk @hnshah no, it's the online equivalent of turning on fm radio. Popular but vapid & easily forgotten
@hunterwalk No on instagram, sometimes on twitter. Honestly never enter instagram except to post; twitter rarely relevant
@hunterwalk Yes, but only by accident -- it's right next to the things I actually want to click.- @hunterwalk Nope. Nope. Too low quality of info. Shallow tweets from celebrities or skanky pics generally
@hunterwalk never because the content is mostly irrelevant to me. Would use it if trends/popular would be derived from my following network
@hunterwalk yielding content has zero relevance to me: frustrating because each app knows so much about what could be relevant.- @hunterwalk the popular button on both also yields the long-tail of user authorship which mostly depresses me.
- @stop @hunterwalk I dunno. 'Discover' is something I do on my own. Not a page I go to. Id like to choose who in my TL curates such a page.
