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How I Use Twitter

26 points by bemmu 15y ago

sfard 15y ago
Did I just read a massive blog entry that can be summarized as "I don't read everything people tweet, just some of the newer tweets when I'm bored"
- dolinsky 15y ago
  Thanks for the tl;dr. I wasn't bored enough to read the article.
ChuckFrank 15y ago
As Twitter continues to evolve into a distributed real time news feed. Suggestions like those by Mr. Tenner will help encourage a better set of expectations for tweeters and followers. I personally am most impressed with Twitter's real time emergency response capabilities.
mcphilip 15y ago
I use twitter exclusively for breaking news and only access it via TwitterGadget on my iGoogle homepage. I only follow a handful of users and almost never tweet myself. I've pruned down the list of users I follow to those that consistently post interesting content related to financial markets and/or major news stories.
andrewpi 15y ago
I follow approximately 500 accounts, so that can be a bit hard to manage. However, I've found that the Twitter lists feature has been pretty good for keeping up to date with the people whose updates really matter to me.
gutini 15y ago
Early in a Twitter users life, you realize you can't read everything. That's fine. But what's harder to overcome, is not opening up the stream as a means of distraction. Humans' basic foraging tendency makes it so enjoyable to find that little piece of interesting information. Except you do that too often, and you don't actually get anything done.
MostAwesomeDude 15y ago
I follow nobody and have my Github wired up to tweet whenever I push code. The end result is that my Twitter is an annoying yet reliable reminder of how much code I produce.
juanipis 15y ago
if your on a Mac, check out my new app, Twit Justice. It uses OS X Speech Synthesis to say tweets that you follow. It's like verbalize(http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/verbalize.html http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/verbalize.html) but for twitter. grab it here: http://twitjustice.org http://twitjustice.org

26 points by bemmu 15y ago

sfard 15y ago

Did I just read a massive blog entry that can be summarized as "I don't read everything people tweet, just some of the newer tweets when I'm bored"

dolinsky 15y ago
Thanks for the tl;dr. I wasn't bored enough to read the article.

ChuckFrank 15y ago

As Twitter continues to evolve into a distributed real time news feed. Suggestions like those by Mr. Tenner will help encourage a better set of expectations for tweeters and followers. I personally am most impressed with Twitter's real time emergency response capabilities.

mcphilip 15y ago

I use twitter exclusively for breaking news and only access it via TwitterGadget on my iGoogle homepage. I only follow a handful of users and almost never tweet myself. I've pruned down the list of users I follow to those that consistently post interesting content related to financial markets and/or major news stories.

andrewpi 15y ago

I follow approximately 500 accounts, so that can be a bit hard to manage. However, I've found that the Twitter lists feature has been pretty good for keeping up to date with the people whose updates really matter to me.

gutini 15y ago

Early in a Twitter users life, you realize you can't read everything. That's fine. But what's harder to overcome, is not opening up the stream as a means of distraction. Humans' basic foraging tendency makes it so enjoyable to find that little piece of interesting information. Except you do that too often, and you don't actually get anything done.

MostAwesomeDude 15y ago

I follow nobody and have my Github wired up to tweet whenever I push code. The end result is that my Twitter is an annoying yet reliable reminder of how much code I produce.

juanipis 15y ago

if your on a Mac, check out my new app, Twit Justice. It uses OS X Speech Synthesis to say tweets that you follow. It's like verbalize(http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/verbalize.html http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/verbalize.html) but for twitter. grab it here: http://twitjustice.org http://twitjustice.org