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When I have tried to do this in the past major news events blew up my feed with many pages of similar articles which totally drowned out everything else I have

by jsz0 10y ago

When I have tried to do this in the past major news events blew up my feed with many pages of similar articles which totally drowned out everything else I have no clue if the right way to use Twitter is to follow a ton of people or very few. If it's very few I don't see the point. I can just goto the sites directly and not have to deal with the wall of noise. My impression of how Twitter works is similar to reading a huge forum thread backwards. So instead of reading oldest to newest it's newest to oldest. Is that fair to say? Maybe I am using it wrong?. Did I change a setting years ago that had some terrible unintended consequence? Is this how Twitter works for everyone else?

jobigoud 10y ago
On the mobile app it will show the feed where you left it and you read it upward to catch up in chronological order. For me I follow about 30 ppl and remove the too talkative ones inorder for the feed to stay manageable and provide the right amount of signal. That's about 10-20 tweets/day. I think people that follow a lot of accounts must use lists or something else.
- elmar 10y ago
  if you follow more than 100 accounts you have to use lists, you can even build lists without following the underlying accounts.
- matwood 10y ago
  > I think people that follow a lot of accounts must use lists or something else. What I have done is use Twitter as a real time newsfeed, and do not read all the tweets I missed. I open twitter and look at the current tweets, possibly scrolling back a few hours. If I missed something, who cares. If it was important it will likely show up here or some other aggregating new site I frequent. Twitter is also great for real-time reactions when watching an event on TV. It's akin to people watching the Super Bowl for the commercials. For some shows, the tweets are better than the show and offer an additional level of entertainment.

by jsz0 10y ago

jobigoud 10y ago

On the mobile app it will show the feed where you left it and you read it upward to catch up in chronological order. For me I follow about 30 ppl and remove the too talkative ones inorder for the feed to stay manageable and provide the right amount of signal. That's about 10-20 tweets/day. I think people that follow a lot of accounts must use lists or something else.

elmar 10y ago
if you follow more than 100 accounts you have to use lists, you can even build lists without following the underlying accounts.
matwood 10y ago
> I think people that follow a lot of accounts must use lists or something else. What I have done is use Twitter as a real time newsfeed, and do not read all the tweets I missed. I open twitter and look at the current tweets, possibly scrolling back a few hours. If I missed something, who cares. If it was important it will likely show up here or some other aggregating new site I frequent. Twitter is also great for real-time reactions when watching an event on TV. It's akin to people watching the Super Bowl for the commercials. For some shows, the tweets are better than the show and offer an additional level of entertainment.