Twitter doesn't work if you want to know what's hot out there, because lack of threading, awkward interface, no possibility to organise by subject. Finally the

Twitter doesn't work if you want to know what's hot out there, because lack of threading, awkward interface, no possibility to organise by subject. Finally the need and concept of "following" people, but by default you don't follow them since you only see a subset of their tweets, only the ones that are popular. If this is what you are looking for, use reddit. Twitter works fine for it's original purpose, follow a few people and wanting to know what they post. You have to tweak a few settings: • Disable "Timeline: Show the best Tweets first" (in "Account") • disable "Quality filter" (in "Notifications") • "Turn off retweets" for people you follow who tweet interesting stuff but retweet garbage • stop following people who tweet more than a few times a week (nobody has that much interesting stuff to say!)