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Sounds to me like...you're using it wrong! But really. Personally, I actually do find it to be magical. It's taken 5+ years of trying, retrying, adjusting, and

by m52go 11y ago

Sounds to me like...you're using it wrong! But really. Personally, I actually do find it to be magical. It's taken 5+ years of trying, retrying, adjusting, and readjusting to get it right, but my Twitter feed is superb.

sandworm101 11y ago
Like facebook, there is no using it correctly or not. Once you are in you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed. Call me old, but I still use bookmarks. Every morning I check my news from my favorite outlets and blogs using old html. The things worth my time don't fit with twitter's approach to information.
- m52go 11y ago
  Yeah I was being cheeky. I was a die-hard Google Reader fan until I started using Twitter, but that approach lacked social commentary. It was something I had to experience to understand. What do the people I respect recommend? What are they thinking? That might be valuable to you, as it is to me, or it might not be. Beyond that, Twitter really is just a list of links.
  - sandworm101 11y ago
    I guess that's where twitter and me differ. The people I care to listen to do not broadcast their thoughts on public platforms, at least not the though worth listening to. They talk via closed communities.
- snowwrestler 11y ago
  > Like facebook, there is no using it correctly or not. Once you are in you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed. If the way you use it keeps it from being useful, then I would suggest that you are in fact using it incorrectly. I mean, you don't have to drive all your friends around everywhere just because you own a car. And you don't have follow all your friends just because you're on Twitter. You don't even have to tell your friends you're on Twitter.
- rorykoehler 11y ago
  >you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed Not a chance. Only true on Facebook but that is easily taken care of by ruthlessly unfollowing/hiding all but your highest value connections.

by m52go 11y ago

sandworm101 11y ago

Like facebook, there is no using it correctly or not. Once you are in you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed. Call me old, but I still use bookmarks. Every morning I check my news from my favorite outlets and blogs using old html. The things worth my time don't fit with twitter's approach to information.

m52go 11y ago
Yeah I was being cheeky. I was a die-hard Google Reader fan until I started using Twitter, but that approach lacked social commentary. It was something I had to experience to understand. What do the people I respect recommend? What are they thinking? That might be valuable to you, as it is to me, or it might not be. Beyond that, Twitter really is just a list of links.
- sandworm101 11y ago
  I guess that's where twitter and me differ. The people I care to listen to do not broadcast their thoughts on public platforms, at least not the though worth listening to. They talk via closed communities.
snowwrestler 11y ago
> Like facebook, there is no using it correctly or not. Once you are in you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed. If the way you use it keeps it from being useful, then I would suggest that you are in fact using it incorrectly. I mean, you don't have to drive all your friends around everywhere just because you own a car. And you don't have follow all your friends just because you're on Twitter. You don't even have to tell your friends you're on Twitter.
rorykoehler 11y ago
>you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed Not a chance. Only true on Facebook but that is easily taken care of by ruthlessly unfollowing/hiding all but your highest value connections.