Twitter Adds Filters, but Misses the Point ⇥ theverge.com
Ellis Hamburger nails the reason why Twitter’s new photo filters are weak sauce, as opposed to the barbecue sauce Ellis puts on his, uh, hamburger:1
Instagram is winning because of the photo-centric community it has built. Instagram created its own medium — a photo stream — that’s easily digestible while exerting minimal brain power. Facebook began with words, and with wall posts, and later evolved to include images. Instagram, on the other hand, was born of a world where people carry smartphones with decent cameras every day and use them to tell stories to friends.
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As someone with the last name “Heer” who has heard every single pun on it, I shouldn’t make fun of others’ last names. ↥︎