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Meaning absolutely no offense, I don't understand how this is possible. The whole point of twitter is that you choose who you follow - if someone is noisy, why
by fenomas 11y ago
Meaning absolutely no offense, I don't understand how this is possible. The whole point of twitter is that you choose who you follow - if someone is noisy, why not unfollow them and never hear from them again?
Is it maybe that you haven't followed anyone yet, and twitter is showing you miscellaneous junk because they're too daft to show you a "hey you should search for some people you're interested in" dialog?
- petra 11y agoWhile in theory it's possible , it takes a lot of work to curate twitter for a high signal/noise level, if it's even possible. Personally i find that if you care for higher snr, curating blogs and newsletters works better. Besides that , twitter is sometimes nice for conversations. But not so much as to be worth the hassle of using it.
- fenomas 11y agoUnless you're following spambots I guess we have different notions of signal/noise. If I follow e.g. William Gibson because I'm interested in hearing what he has to say, and he says something about a topic I'm not interested in, is that noise?
- petra 11y agoGibson is smart and interesting, sure. But if he says something i'm not interested in ,yes , for me, on the web, it's noise.
- monk_e_boy 11y agoMaybe trying to cram everything into 140 characters including links and hash tags is just too much for me. Look at all the replies to me, they are all written in normal English words with not a single #tag in sight.