Twitter users went into fury over the weekend after a BuzzFeed report sated that Twitter will arrange its tweets in order of 'importance'.
The hashtag #RIPTwitter immediately became a trending hashtag in several parts of the world - and the top trending in U.S. item on Twitter - last Saturday after the news broke out.
The BuzzFeed report revealed that the company has plans to change how it displays users' tweets. The source of the information was not disclosed. The report further said that the company will somehow "reorder tweets to prioritize those it believes more users will want to see."
The #RIPTwitter hashtag suggests that if this gets implemented, a lot of users would leave, resulting to the death of the company.
Those who use Twitter mainly for microblogging resented that if they do implement the new rule, then Twitter will no longer be different from Facebook. Facebook now features posts with the most number of comments or likes. Some posts on Facebook are seen first after somebody comments on them.
The following are some of the tweets as compiled by Reuters:
"Dear Twitter, don't try to be like Facebook, we don't like Facebook #RIPTwitter," tweeted ana (@dearcalumthood) on Saturday.
"Clearly the motto 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' is something @twitter isn't familiar with #RIPTwitter," tweeted EldestSalvatore (@EldestDamon) on Saturday.
Other tweets gathered by CNBC include the following:
"If true, I don't understand why you would even want to turn Twitter into Facebook 2.0. People use Twitter to NOT use Facebook #RIPTwitter," tweeted Richard Sharp (@RichSharpy).
"Jack: Damn, I founded Twitter, but Facebook beat me!
Us: How give us X, Y, Z?
Jack: No, that'll never work. Imma gonna clone FB. #RIPtwitter," tweeterd Mark Kern (@Grummz)
A representative from the microblogging site did not give any comment.
Twitter has been under a lot of pressure as it is looking for more ways to achieve advertising revenues that would equal or be greater than Facebook. The site's third-quarter earnings reflect a monthly active user statistic of 307 million. However, as early as now, its share price has fallen over 32 percent.
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