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Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a
by Grue3 7y ago
Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.
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- Simon_says 7y agoLOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.
- penagwin 7y agoThen this entire thread is irrelevant to you. Why are you here?
- Simon_says 7y agoIt’s the top of HN.
- p49k 7y agoThere is a “hide” button made specifically for your situation.
- a1369209993 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=22141903&goto=news https://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=22141903&goto=news: > You have to be logged in to hide.
- Sohcahtoa82 7y agoYou also have to be logged in to comment. Simon_says decided to comment rather than hide.
- a1369209993 7y agoIt doesn't stay hidden when you log out. It does stay commented.
- zapzupnz 7y agoThere’s no revolver held to your temples forcing you to post on every front page item.
- wpietri 7y agoAre you sure? That could explain a significant number of comments here.
- fortran77 7y agoIt's a very common HN trope! "I don't even own a television" on threads about cable TV, or "I don't have a Facebook account" on threads about Facebook. These 10x hipsters never want to do anything fun and easy that "the masses" do -- and they have a compulsion to let everyone else know they're special. I think it comes from parents that made a mediocre kid believe he's special and gifted and that all his ideas are profound.
- skyyler 7y agoThis is ostrich behaviour. "La la la, I can't hear you, you're not saying anything important"
- rdiddly 7y agoActually they don't do that, and neither would I if I could run 50 mph, was huge, and preferred breathing air, but anyway: Importance (which is import, meaning) is mostly subjective. If there's such a thing as objective importance, attention is probably orthogonal to it. And to subjective importance too, at least at first, but then extended attention probably increases perceived/subjective importance just as protracted inattention decreases it.
- richk449 7y agoSeems perfectly reasonable. Here are some reasons: 1. The fraction of people on the world on Twitter is very small. Either most people in the world are missing important information, or not being on Twitter doesn’t cause one to miss important information. 2. If something important does occur on Twitter, it will be repeated on other news sources. It seems like half the news stories these days are just a bunch of tweets surrounded by boilerplate. I think that listening to emergency radio is a good model for Twitter. It might provide you with information earlier than relying on conventional sources, and it might provide you with more blips of information, but not all of that information is necessarily correct, and you will spend a lot of time and not gain much of value over traditional sources.
- danso 7y agoI don't think the emergency radio analogy makes much sense since Twitter's value is more than just reading tweets. It can be used for initiating and participating in discussions.
- richk449 7y agoFair point. Maybe radio in general is a better model. Some people use it to have conversations with friends, and some people use it to listen to the emergency channel. It still means that cutting it out of your life won’t doom you to missing important information.
- danso 7y agoI could live without Twitter obviously, but I could say that for pretty much every Internet service other than maybe email. What's great about Twitter is the serendipity; I've been able to follow people with perspectives that I just don't have in my professional or personal circle, and reading/chatting with them over the years has profoundly expanded my worldview. It's not much different in that sense than HN – I could never call any thread or single day of browsing "important", but I know that what I've learned cumulatively over time has been very important.
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- blondin 7y agoi don't have a twitter either but i follow important people there. (it works on the web version at least). john carmack for example often updates on his twitter. a couple of programmers & artists i like too. also the trends column is the most accurate "mood indicator" ever.
- hiccuphippo 7y agoSounds like a feature. If it is important you shouldn't rely on twitter to find about it anyway.
- munk-a 7y agoI dunno, it's a tool, you can use it how you'd like to use it. Twitter is kinda weird in that there are some blindly obvious UX improvements everyone is aware of that Twitter refrains from because the poor UX is subsidizing their business model.
- wolco 7y agoIf you are scrolling more than 200 texts you need to break the list into two. Or examine who you are following. If you miss something is it that important?
- rhizome 7y agoand it doesn't update automatically, and it doesn't update when you click the header, and it's just basically a static list of the tweets from the last time you refreshed.
- bradleyankrom 7y agoThat hasn’t been my experience with lists. They refresh just like the home feed (except without the ads and posts are in chronological order).
- ancientworldnow 7y agoYou just click "show more tweets" when it gets to the end of the new tweet feed and it loads the next chunk.