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The burden with Google+ circles, and Twitter if it followed suit, is that I have to manage what someone else is interested in hearing from me. That’s completely
by lftl 15y ago
The burden with Google+ circles, and Twitter if it followed suit, is that I have to manage what someone else is interested in hearing from me. That’s completely backwards for pubic sharing (which is unequivocally Twitter's focus), especially for people with a decent sized public following who they may not know very well.
What Twitter needs to build is a capability where I can advertise different topics that I talk about, and then people can selectively follow everything I tweet, or just follow tweets that I publish to a particular topic. In G+ terminology it would be like if they made my list of circles public, and then people added themselves to circles rather than me adding them.
- devaholic 15y agoIt sounds like they really just need to let me search only my timeline for whatever I want. Interestingly, I can't even seem to do this with the advanced search (http://search.twitter.com/advanced http://search.twitter.com/advanced)
- skbohra123 15y agoI agree, I too miss the ability to search my timeline. That could be really very handy.
- lftl 15y agoTimeline restricted search might solve the problem, but there are plenty of topics where a simple keyword search may not cut it. Searching for programming would obviously include a wide array of tweets with a wide berth of keywords. I don't think a naive keyword search would really solve the problem. I did consider at one point writing a Twitter client that would do simple Bayesian filtering across a list. So you would create a list, add whoever you want, and then flag messages as good/bad for that list, and it would start filtering.