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I've thought long and hard about why I believe Twitter as a service isn't very valuable to me and I thing I've come up with the answer. Twitter is great at deli

by jswny 10y ago

I've thought long and hard about why I believe Twitter as a service isn't very valuable to me and I thing I've come up with the answer. Twitter is great at delivering live information. If I'm following my favorite artist on twitter then I know immediately when his album drops. However, that one important tweet that matters to me is mixed in with a 100 other tweets of people I follow retweeting or posting irrelevant things. For that reason the situation in which Twitter truly shines for me (instant, up to date information) is overshadowed by the fact that many people also use Twitter to post funny things which I don't care about.

davidbarker 10y ago
Have you experimented with turning mobile notifications on for certain accounts? By doing that, I've got a steady stream of tweets from interesting people when I open the app and browse my timeline, but I don't miss tweets from accounts I want to see immediately because their tweets are pushed to my iPhone. The drawback is that you have to get all of that account's tweets pushed to you even if you only care about a few of them.