> Why can't it be like RSS, where everybody has a feed, and it tracks what posts I've read and which ones I haven't, and I can catch up with all the unread post

> Why can't it be like RSS, where everybody has a feed, and it tracks what posts I've read and which ones I haven't, and I can catch up with all the unread posts? Probably because that way, I could check it once a week, instead of every 30 minutes, and Twitter needs those DAUs to survive. I use Tweetbot, which approximates this by saving my place in the timeline (though it doesn't let me mark tweets as read/unread/needs-followup on a more granular level, which would be a useful feature). But ironically, I suspect I might be better off using the standard unstable feed, precisely because I only check Twitter anywhere from once a week to once a day. Every day, my timeline gets hundreds of tweets. The actual volume of text is not that high, compared to the long blog posts I'm accustomed to reading at a fast pace. But the tweets are about many different topics, and many of them are tips of icebergs, having links or being part of longer threads. So the timeline feels overwhelming, and I almost never read it all. Given that, perhaps I'd be better off without the pretense. Ditch the saved place; prioritize recent tweets, so that they're still live discussions in case I feel like replying; but rather than solely prioritizing recency, use a filtering algorithm to identify which tweets are most worth reading. But for now I'm stubbornly sticking to Tweetbot – partly out of habit, partly because I don't want to use an algorithm unless it's something open source that I can customize.