Nine months ago, I wrote a post saying that opening up Twitter’s Moments would make it a way better product.
The news came out yesterday that Twitter has now opened up Moments to certain users and plans to open up to all users in the coming months.
I am not sure why it took Twitter so long to do this. Maybe the curation tools were not that good and they needed to improve them before opening it up.
Maybe they hadn’t figured out how to keep spam, porn, abusive content, etc out of Moments.
Maybe they hadn’t figured out the discovery issues once there are hundreds of thousands of Moments being created every day.
Whatever the reasons for it, I think this is great news for Twitter and Twitter users.
Moments are a super easy way to get a quick glimpse of something that is happening right now. I use it every day, many times a day. Opening it up will make it deeper, richer, and better.
