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You can make a clean chronological feed quite easily with the API (the API does not include sponsored content, suggested topics or suggested likes and replies,

You can make a clean chronological feed quite easily with the API (the API does not include sponsored content, suggested topics or suggested likes and replies, but I want none of that anyway), this is how I have consumed twitter for years. I have filters on top of it, but those are decided my me and not their algorithms. Have been thinking about polishing and releasing the service, but I'm not sure it is a convenience people would actually pay for?

tazjin 5y ago
> Have been thinking about polishing and releasing the service, but I'm not sure it is a convenience people would actually pay for? You'd get shut down by Twitter as soon as it gains any traction, probably not a good idea.
- hobo_mark 5y ago
  I know, but making it paid would mean that I'd never have more than O(1000) users (optimistically!), and I doubt twitter would care. My main question is whether users would.
mistermann 5y ago
Something like that for YouTube would be nice also, I miss so many videos from channels I'm subscribed to because they don't show everything in your New feed. I would gladly pay $12/year for a service that does that and maybe a few other obviously useful features (tagging, attaching private comments, subscribing to friends public archives, etc).
- hobo_mark 5y ago
  Had not considered youtube but that is indeed another great example of where I would not want an algorithm decide over the user what they get to see. By tagging and private comments you mean being able to take private notes about a particular tweet/video?
  - mistermann 5y ago
    Yes...tagging for grouping, notes for annotating, etc. There's also massive opportunity for crowd sourcing of topic based discovery. The YouTube platform is amazingly horrible (from an end user perspective) considering how valuable its content is, if you could implement something that can't be blocked somehow I think it could be a financially rewarding little business, there are lots of heavy users of YouTube.
- rpastuszak 5y ago
  I wouldn’t mind YT RSS
  - hobo_mark 5y ago
    YouTube already makes an RSS feed available for each channel (not trivially available, but the method is easy to look up)
    - rpastuszak 5y ago
      Great, thanks for the tip!

tazjin 5y ago

> Have been thinking about polishing and releasing the service, but I'm not sure it is a convenience people would actually pay for? You'd get shut down by Twitter as soon as it gains any traction, probably not a good idea.

hobo_mark 5y ago
I know, but making it paid would mean that I'd never have more than O(1000) users (optimistically!), and I doubt twitter would care. My main question is whether users would.

mistermann 5y ago

Something like that for YouTube would be nice also, I miss so many videos from channels I'm subscribed to because they don't show everything in your New feed. I would gladly pay $12/year for a service that does that and maybe a few other obviously useful features (tagging, attaching private comments, subscribing to friends public archives, etc).

hobo_mark 5y ago
Had not considered youtube but that is indeed another great example of where I would not want an algorithm decide over the user what they get to see. By tagging and private comments you mean being able to take private notes about a particular tweet/video?
- mistermann 5y ago
  Yes...tagging for grouping, notes for annotating, etc. There's also massive opportunity for crowd sourcing of topic based discovery. The YouTube platform is amazingly horrible (from an end user perspective) considering how valuable its content is, if you could implement something that can't be blocked somehow I think it could be a financially rewarding little business, there are lots of heavy users of YouTube.
rpastuszak 5y ago
I wouldn’t mind YT RSS
- hobo_mark 5y ago
  YouTube already makes an RSS feed available for each channel (not trivially available, but the method is easy to look up)
  - rpastuszak 5y ago
    Great, thanks for the tip!