The Vostok blog

It’s great to see how twitter looked like back in 2006 and realise that it’s pretty much the same as now, except for some improvements (avatars and little more):

(via a tweet from Seisdeagosto)

Adding stuff is a temptation in which many fall. We’ve seen it in a lot of projects. The owner thinks that the only possible evolution is adding functionality. We think that sometimes is just the opposite: make it better by removing instead of adding. The key is to know which branches to cut, just like a good gardener does, so the tree grows stronger and healthier.

Twitter could allow users to upload pictues, sounds… it could have a rich text editor so people can put smileys, html and italics… But it doesn’t have all that. It still is 140 character messages ordered chronologically in one column. Nothing else.