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"No one is on twitter to have a conversation, it’s a room full of screaming people." It's not a room, but a city. You've clearly been spending time in a bad pa

"No one is on twitter to have a conversation, it’s a room full of screaming people." It's not a room, but a city. You've clearly been spending time in a bad part of town. Ruthlessly curating lists of people/accounts worth following will transform your experience.

FooHentai 6y ago
Twitter is certainly more palatable with a ruthlessly curated feed. In fact I think it's a mandatory action or you'll simply stop engaging with the platform. So anyone who's an ongoing twitter user is guaranteed to have a highly filtered view of what's posted. So in the end the tailoring capability makes itself an obligation, which leads to users floating in their own opinions and information bubble, leads to ... interesting ... outcomes when the real world comes knocking. This is markedly different to how it has been before with specialist forums etc. There, while there was coalescence around particular topics, the range of opinions and personalities participating was otherwise quite open and the ability to filter was limited (or rather, elective in a way that twitter feed curation is not). There was certainly some self-selection at play but it's intensified massively with the shift in dynamic. Facebook has the same issue as twitter of course and I suspect many other platforms as well - One mitigating approach is to try and keep conflicting views on your feed but it quickly becomes so tiresome that your engagement with the platform as a whole drops. I'm not sure there's a good approach other than to go full wargames.
ZephyrBlu 6y ago
Even most "good" people/accounts aren't really having a conversation. Tweets are almost always very bold statements with little nuance.
- chrisweekly 6y ago
  Sure, but that's true IRL too -- and is mostly moot if you enjoy scanning your highly-curated lists of Twitter handles to see what certain smart and/or interesting people have to say.
reaperducer 6y ago
Ruthlessly curating lists of people/accounts worth following will transform your experience. But who has time for that? The OP said he was thinking about it while working on his car. A real life thing that I expect is a lot more satisfying than staring at phosphor being "ruthless" to strangers.
- chrisweekly 6y ago
  > "who has time for that?" Given how many hours of daily television are consumed by your average 1st-world person, just about everyone.

FooHentai 6y ago

Twitter is certainly more palatable with a ruthlessly curated feed. In fact I think it's a mandatory action or you'll simply stop engaging with the platform. So anyone who's an ongoing twitter user is guaranteed to have a highly filtered view of what's posted. So in the end the tailoring capability makes itself an obligation, which leads to users floating in their own opinions and information bubble, leads to ... interesting ... outcomes when the real world comes knocking. This is markedly different to how it has been before with specialist forums etc. There, while there was coalescence around particular topics, the range of opinions and personalities participating was otherwise quite open and the ability to filter was limited (or rather, elective in a way that twitter feed curation is not). There was certainly some self-selection at play but it's intensified massively with the shift in dynamic. Facebook has the same issue as twitter of course and I suspect many other platforms as well - One mitigating approach is to try and keep conflicting views on your feed but it quickly becomes so tiresome that your engagement with the platform as a whole drops. I'm not sure there's a good approach other than to go full wargames.

ZephyrBlu 6y ago

Even most "good" people/accounts aren't really having a conversation. Tweets are almost always very bold statements with little nuance.

chrisweekly 6y ago
Sure, but that's true IRL too -- and is mostly moot if you enjoy scanning your highly-curated lists of Twitter handles to see what certain smart and/or interesting people have to say.

reaperducer 6y ago

Ruthlessly curating lists of people/accounts worth following will transform your experience. But who has time for that? The OP said he was thinking about it while working on his car. A real life thing that I expect is a lot more satisfying than staring at phosphor being "ruthless" to strangers.

chrisweekly 6y ago
> "who has time for that?" Given how many hours of daily television are consumed by your average 1st-world person, just about everyone.