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I actually enjoy these "retweeted by xxx", "xxx liked this" and other suggestions options. That's how I discover other people (mainly artists) on Twitter. Also

I actually enjoy these "retweeted by xxx", "xxx liked this" and other suggestions options. That's how I discover other people (mainly artists) on Twitter. Also I don't stay on Twitter all the time, so a curated timeline is more useful than a chronological one (yes, I'm going to miss some tweets, but I will miss some anyway even if I use the reverse chronological order because I won't scroll down that far.)

pier25 7y ago
I also like the algo-curated feed of Twitter. My only complaint is the autorefresh. Sometimes I'm reading something and boom the feed is refreshed and I have to scroll down to find the thing I was interested in. This has also happened when I was about to click on something. so annoying.
felipeerias 7y ago
I don’t mind the reordered list, specially if I’ve been away for a while, but the density of suggestions is ridiculous. I’ve seen stretches of twenty tweets in my TL where not one of them was an actual public tweet by somebody I follow.
oehpr 7y ago
Yah, I agree. I don't necessarily think chronological ordering is the perfect curation system either. But the problem is that whatever criteria Twitter uses isn't aligning with what I think it should be. Now of course, I'm not special, I shouldn't expect it WOULD be aligned with what I consider good curation. But I can't imagine the choices they ARE making are anywhere near the mean users preference. So lots of people reject that curation and choose to curate for themselves as if it was an RSS feed. But I think the thing that these people (and I count myself among them) really want is for companies like twitter and youtube to let us make our own choices about curation. "I really like this person and want to see everything they release." "I like this persons tastes and want their feed added to mine" "This person isn't that interesting, just show me stuff they make that gets popular" "I only want to see tweets from this person about certain subjects. I don't care about their views on woodworking." ect.
- fireattack 7y ago
  There is "show less often" option for each Tweet. How effective it is, I don't know.

pier25 7y ago

I also like the algo-curated feed of Twitter. My only complaint is the autorefresh. Sometimes I'm reading something and boom the feed is refreshed and I have to scroll down to find the thing I was interested in. This has also happened when I was about to click on something. so annoying.

felipeerias 7y ago

I don’t mind the reordered list, specially if I’ve been away for a while, but the density of suggestions is ridiculous. I’ve seen stretches of twenty tweets in my TL where not one of them was an actual public tweet by somebody I follow.

oehpr 7y ago

Yah, I agree. I don't necessarily think chronological ordering is the perfect curation system either. But the problem is that whatever criteria Twitter uses isn't aligning with what I think it should be. Now of course, I'm not special, I shouldn't expect it WOULD be aligned with what I consider good curation. But I can't imagine the choices they ARE making are anywhere near the mean users preference. So lots of people reject that curation and choose to curate for themselves as if it was an RSS feed. But I think the thing that these people (and I count myself among them) really want is for companies like twitter and youtube to let us make our own choices about curation. "I really like this person and want to see everything they release." "I like this persons tastes and want their feed added to mine" "This person isn't that interesting, just show me stuff they make that gets popular" "I only want to see tweets from this person about certain subjects. I don't care about their views on woodworking." ect.

fireattack 7y ago
There is "show less often" option for each Tweet. How effective it is, I don't know.