Tweakers

History

The website was founded in 1998 by Femme Taken, a computer enthusiast, under the name World of Tweaking as a student's hobby project to offer a Dutch alternative to hardware review sites such as Tom's Hardware Guide.

As of March 2006, Tweakers was taken over by the Dutch media conglomerate VNU, now known as The Nielsen Company. After The Nielsen Company sold its Business Media division to private equity firm 3i, VNU Media became owner of the Tweakers website .

In October 2012, Tweakers launched a new design, designed by Femme Taken, the founder; the community was critical of this change. A couple of days later, Tweakers launched a new feature that enabled the community to change the appearance of the website.

A number of changes and improvements were made in 2014. The current responsive design was introduced on 6 January that year. The Android and iOS apps were removed from their respective stores on 7 October 2014.

In February 2014 Tweakers significantly improved the price comparison tool for sim only contracts.

In June 2014 Tweakers added prices of Belgian webshops to the Pricewatch, which now shows prices from Dutch and Belgian webshops.

Changes continue. In April 2015 Tweakers launched a completely new logo to be uniformly used throughout the website.

Gathering of Tweakers

An important area of the site is the forum. Tweakers's forum is known as the Gathering of Tweakers (often abbreviated as GoT). The forum is focused mainly on technical subjects and tries to maintain a relatively high standard of posting. It has a fairly strong moderation policy, especially when compared to other online discussion forums. Users of the forum are strongly urged to read the FAQ and to have invested a fair amount of his/her own time into finding an answer, either on GoT using the search tools, or anywhere else on the Internet, before asking a question.

Tweakers Awards

Tweakers Awards (formerly known as "Tweakers Gouden Steeksleutel Awards" 2007 to 2011) is a contest in which members can choose the best products from different technology categories.

References

References

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12. "introduceert responsive design - IT Pro - .Plans". Tweakers.
13. "Development-round-up - Iteratie #58 - IT Pro - .Plans". Tweakers.
14. "vernieuwt sim-only-prijsvergelijker - Tablets en telefoons - .Plans". Tweakers.
15. "breidt Pricewatch uit - Ook in België willen we de beste zijn - IT Pro - .Plans". Tweakers.
16. (2015-04-28). "Tweakers tweakt logo - nieuw logo voor hetzelfde Tweakers". Tweakers.
17. "Gathering of Tweakers FAQ". Gathering.tweakers.net.
18. "Gathering of Tweakers FAQ". Gathering.tweakers.net.
19. "Tweakers Awards 2023 Winners".