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This article has good advice, but doesn't really help me. I actually really want to use Twitter more, but I cannot get over the fact that most of the people I f

This article has good advice, but doesn't really help me. I actually really want to use Twitter more, but I cannot get over the fact that most of the people I find interesting post 20% interesting stuff, but 80% in-jokes, casual conversations, or memes. This is fine for the people who post once a day, but if there are 10s of them per day I get sick of it. I don't know how I'm meant to deal with this other than just blindly trusting Twitter's algorithm of what ends up on my home feed (which I don't really want to). Maybe what I want is for Twitter to differentiate between announcement/public style posts and posts that are intended for a smaller community of followers, but that probably goes against the nature of the medium. I hold myself responsible for this whenever I tweet something as well, but it seems like the only way to do it 100% is to make different accounts for different topics (e.g. one account for tech/programming, one for politics, and one for casual life stuff).

dandellion 6y ago
I had the same experience, a few times I've tried to follow a few interesting accounts. It's always the same: a couple of accounts posting memes or sharing random things drown everything else. When I want to waste time with that sort of stuff I can do it more efficiently on reddit.
PikachuEXE 6y ago
I am having a similar but different need. I want multiple streams like circles from Google Plus (yes the dead Google Plus). It was the only thing I found on Google+ which is missing from all other social medias I am using.
- twic 6y ago
  Lists? https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-lists https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-lists
cblconfederate 6y ago
i think twitter's model pushes people to post often, so they post more memes/political stuff which i find garbage. I wish it would keep the stuff from interesting people at the top for more days, but it s not happening.

dandellion 6y ago

I had the same experience, a few times I've tried to follow a few interesting accounts. It's always the same: a couple of accounts posting memes or sharing random things drown everything else. When I want to waste time with that sort of stuff I can do it more efficiently on reddit.

PikachuEXE 6y ago

I am having a similar but different need. I want multiple streams like circles from Google Plus (yes the dead Google Plus). It was the only thing I found on Google+ which is missing from all other social medias I am using.

twic 6y ago
Lists? https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-lists https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-lists

cblconfederate 6y ago

i think twitter's model pushes people to post often, so they post more memes/political stuff which i find garbage. I wish it would keep the stuff from interesting people at the top for more days, but it s not happening.