I definitely use my timeline to get a pulse of what's going on in the world from the people I follow. I want to hear what's on their mind specifically. I use s

I definitely use my timeline to get a pulse of what's going on in the world from the people I follow. I want to hear what's on their mind specifically. I use search or hashtags sometimes, but more often than not I'm just looking through my feed and if I feel the need to dig deeper, I use search/hashtags. So yes, I do follow live events through my home timeline. It's important to note that I follow accounts like @NBA or @Warriors which predictably tweets during important live moments so I often get exactly what I'm looking for. It all depends on who you follow. I've curated my follow list to be perfect for my usage, so it works well for me. It really all depends on how you've curated your follow list, so I can see why you might think that people rarely follow live events from their feed, but I just don't think that's entirely true (of course, neither of us have the numbers to back either of our claims so we are merely speculating). Example: Warriors game is on. I fire up Twitter and look through my home feed and I get tweets from @Warriors play by play interspersed with reactions from other accounts that I follow like Bill Simmons or certain players or celebrities. It's a predictable experience that way and doesn't require search.