> This has nothing to do with following smartly it is about how the website is built. Even if you follow smartly, at best you get an unbiased news aggregator wh

> This has nothing to do with following smartly it is about how the website is built. Even if you follow smartly, at best you get an unbiased news aggregator where you might as well go straight to the source. Strongly disagree. From the consumer side, most non-technical people don't know how to set up "feeds" or subscribe to the topics they are interested in. Twitter allows you to do so, to pick the people that you're interested in following, and see what their thoughts are and what they want to share. And from the publisher side, twitter has allowed various Health Care Workers to quickly get online and share what is really going on in various hospitals throughout the US. This would not have been possible with a platform that was harder to use.