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Yeah. Twitter is a broadcasting platform. It is different from FB. FB feed has your mom and their friends' posts. Twitter doesn't, unless you explicitly ask for

Yeah. Twitter is a broadcasting platform. It is different from FB. FB feed has your mom and their friends' posts. Twitter doesn't, unless you explicitly ask for it. Not everything should be about advertising. Twitter can stay as it has, and just charge people with money, money.

gaius 10y ago
The feeds of both are whatever the algo thinks - which will be some compromise between what you want and what the owner of the algo wants.
- tkxxx7 10y ago
  What is algorithm-driven in my twitter feed? The 'While you were away' stuff at the top? Other than that, as far as I know it's always been a chronological feed of whoever I want.
  - gaius 10y ago
    Are you sure? http://fortune.com/2016/03/20/twitter-algorithm-social-marketing/ http://fortune.com/2016/03/20/twitter-algorithm-social-marke... If you don't even notice it, the algo has got you...
    - tkxxx7 10y ago
      Oh, wow. Does this effect third-party clients as well? I use Echofon almost exclusively.
      - gaius 10y ago
        I can't imagine not - would Twitter give people an easy way to avoid sponsored content etc? That's one reason they cut off all the devs.
    - msravi 10y ago
      Wow, didn't know that either. But I don't "follow" people. Rather, I simply add them to different lists (finance, news, science, tech, right, left, etc.) and use tweetdeck to follow the multiple lists. I wonder if they're also messing with the lists... In any case, as far as I can tell, I seem to be getting all the tweets of people in the list in chronological order.
      - tkxxx7 10y ago
        that's a good point too, I have a couple lists I look at for close friends and such and only go onto the timeline every now and then