Tech Insider
Twitter's newest feature is causing a significant amount of outrage on the internet.
Moments, a new tab in the Twitter app that collects tweets for live events and news stories, is getting flamed by Twitter users for constantly displaying a blue dot next to its icon.
A blue dot signals unread notifications in the app, and every time Twitter refreshes Moments with new content, a blue dot appears.
A quick search of "blue dot" on Twitter produces these kind of tweets:
No, blue dot. I'm not clicking on "moments".
- josh groban (@joshgroban) October 12, 2015Nothing irritates me more than when I get on Twitter and have to click on the moments just to get the blue dot to disappear
- Victoria Clark (@XxVictoriaxX13) October 12, 2015It's like Twitter is using the Moments Blue Dot to cull all the people like me with whatever neurosis that can't deal with unread messages.
- John Sharkman (@JohnSharkman) October 12, 2015Yeah, the blue dot next to the new 'Moments' tab on the Twitter app has got to go. Inappropriate.
- Christoph Knudsen (@draindesert) October 12, 2015Keep on blue dotting, blue dot. I'm not clicking on the Moments tab.
- Betty (@BoomBoomBetty) October 12, 2015I thought I could ignore the whole new "Moments" thing, but that little blue dot keeps pissing me off
- Jenna (@jennakoblinski) October 12, 2015I click on the moments button just to get rid of the blue dot next to it, not to actually read anything lol.
- pam (@pamnonga) October 12, 2015I've never been more annoyed by a small blue dot than this new Twitter "moments" thing
- Rozwell Kid (@RozwellKid) October 12, 2015It turns that people are fairly anal about having unread notifications, and the inability to opt out of the Moments feature isn't helping them cope.
The cool thing about Twitter Moments is that I'll definitely never use it.
- Nick Keutzer (@Nick09) October 7, 2015