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I used to be a Google Reader/Google Buzz addict. And was interacting with a very living community through those tools. I now use twitter as my exclusive medium
by lolive 11y ago
I used to be a Google Reader/Google Buzz addict. And was interacting with a very living community through those tools.
I now use twitter as my exclusive medium for both mainstream and "niche" news.
I appreciate the wide availability of content, but still think they are much too conservative with their user experience.
The inability to browse tweets by topic is sometimes a pain.
The inability to connect with the right people and build a discussion about topics you discover and find interesting.
Basically twitter should have a chatroom. And propose you conversations about (your) trending topics.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoSo a more public/global Slack with recommendations and intelligently aggregating channels by hash tag?
- LoSboccacc 11y agothe limitation of which is that most content on a user stream is pulled passively by the users or is a paid advertisement. as a discovery/exploration tool sucks. if it had interesting suggestion based on hashtags and followers beyond 'follow this three more person' daily mail it could be a nice networking/news tool, but so far it cannot really help me navigate in the millions streams that might be interesting but are accessible only knowing that exact hashtag I followed a couple news outlet, I guess there are many more that may interest me but I can't be assed to search them and if I discover them myself they go by preference into feedly, not twitter. on the other hand, it had been great to follow this and that indie game developer :D
- cpeterso 11y agoGoogle Reader got so much right, except maybe feed discovery. Google could have incrementally morphed Reader, something that worked. Twitter is like RSS for regular people.