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The problem isn't character limit. The problem is missing interesting Tweets. My timeline is flooded with new tweets. Better flagging to read later, algorithms
by cdnsteve 11y ago
The problem isn't character limit.
The problem is missing interesting Tweets. My timeline is flooded with new tweets. Better flagging to read later, algorithms that say you might find this most interesting, filtering would be welcome and are needed.
- dacox 11y agoI still don't really understand Twitter. I have an account and have followed ~50 people and organizations I find interesting, and all I see is floods of re-tweets of people I have no interest in.
- prawn 11y agoThey don't think you are following enough people. Tough luck if you disagree. Nail for their coffin, IMO.
- Wingman4l7 11y agoYou have to turn off retweets manually for every single account you follow, unfortunately.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago> Better flagging to read later Can you expand on that? Do the tweets contain links, or do they just pack enough meaning into 140 characters that you'd like to think about it for some time before replying? Personally, I think that anything that needs to be bookmarked later like that belongs in an RSS feed.
- Zikes 11y agoLinks, videos, and potentially interesting discussions that may result. The last point also touches on an issue I have with the Twitter Android client: there's no way to refresh a tweet to see new replies. Even if I go back to my timeline and tap on the tweet again, it'll just show whatever it has in the local cache. Normally that's good behavior, but a pull-to-refresh (an action patented by Twitter, no less) would be absolutely ideal.
- clumsysmurf 11y agoIt would be nice if we could somehow follow based on more specific filters ... like combination of user and topic. Recently I wanted to follow a well known Java Evangelist, but their Java tweets were mixed with lots of politics tweets. Even though I agreed with the politics, I only wanted to read the Java related stuff - but it was like drinking from a firehose so I gave up. And also being able to disable retweets for Lists would be nice too.
- Macacity 11y agoyou might like google+, where you can follow collections in which a user posts only posts about one theme.
- homulilly 11y agoFiltering options would be nice but the lack of algorithms deciding what to show me is exactly why I use twitter over facebook and I already hate their occasional recommended tweets.
- AlwaysBCoding 11y agoThe character limit is a massive problem though. Tweetstorms, replying to yourself, and posting images of text are all ridiculous hacks for a basic use case.