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I love Twitter, it's helped me reach a lot of people for personal and professional work. Two things that annoy me about twitter. One, it seems to weight tweets
by eatonphil 5y ago
I love Twitter, it's helped me reach a lot of people for personal and professional work. Two things that annoy me about twitter.
One, it seems to weight tweets by newer follows higher. I keep my follow list to pretty exactly people I want to hear from. But often I see I've missed tweets from people I followed 100 or 200 follows again. I hate this!
Two, it doesn't seem to do a good job normalizing tweet frequency across accounts. So I can't follow big tweeters like foone because my time line gets destroyed by their many (but still good) tweets.
Anyone have a solution for either?
- wpietri 5y agoFor the first, consider making "Latest Tweets" your default rather than "Home". For the latter, consider putting those big tweeters on lists instead of following. You can check in on them occasionally via the list.
- eatonphil 5y agoI have tried latest tweets too but then I just miss the people who don't post at the same time I'm around. I have also tried lists but Twitter's lists are a truly second class entity compared to accounts. You can only have 4 show up on your time line and they show up quite infrequently. Lists not in my time line I never remember to check.
- wpietri 5y agoYeah, ultimately we're drinking from a firehose here; Twitter provides more good content than I can ever consume. So for me these choices are about regret minimization. Personally, I just stick with the latest tweets view and occasionally pop into the ranked timeline to get a different slice on things. But if you want more control, you might also consider a different client, like tweetdeck. Or having different accounts for different purposes.