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>"Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what

>"Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what’s happening around the universe." I tried to start using Twitter that way maybe 5 years ago and found that there was just too much noise - jokes, tales of breakfast and banter that I just don't care to see. I actually feel like it's the right kind of model though. Aggregating content streams from people of similar interests. It's the filtering that's lacking for me. Every time I think about following someone on a social site I want for the ability to follow only a specific category of their content and possibly re-share it in the same focused fashion. G+, Flipboard and likely a host of others have done things toward this direction, but I have yet to see anything gel for me. Ideally, I see all of this categorization and recommendation happening automatically. If a service could recommend news or articles to me and categorize those I specify with the same accuracy I perceive from Netflix with movies, or even the new Gmail inbox I'd be pretty happy.

mrweasel 13y ago
I really don't see Twitter providing any value to my life. The structure and concept doesn't fit my way of discovering and consuming news at all. In my mind, Twitter is essentially useless. I don't care about people, I don't wish to be follow anyone, I care about single idea, news and insights. I would not like a filter in terms of what Google or Netflix imposes on me either. If I only got the news that some filter thought I would like I would miss out on ever discovering anything new. Filters only serves to keep you in your own little bubble, never letting anything controversial enter your life. I like Hacker News, Slashdot and to some extend Reddit. Most of the stuff on each site is of little interest, but now I know it exists. There's a bunch of stuff that I've been introduced to, which initially did't appeal to me, but later on proved useful. Filters and recommendation engines needs to die, they are harmful because they limit our exposure to new ideas. Twitter should go the same way, you follow the people you agree with or the people you want to hate, never the people who make you stop and rethink your own opinions.
- incision 13y ago
  I think you've misconstrued my point as I'm generally in agreement with you.

mrweasel 13y ago

I really don't see Twitter providing any value to my life. The structure and concept doesn't fit my way of discovering and consuming news at all. In my mind, Twitter is essentially useless. I don't care about people, I don't wish to be follow anyone, I care about single idea, news and insights. I would not like a filter in terms of what Google or Netflix imposes on me either. If I only got the news that some filter thought I would like I would miss out on ever discovering anything new. Filters only serves to keep you in your own little bubble, never letting anything controversial enter your life. I like Hacker News, Slashdot and to some extend Reddit. Most of the stuff on each site is of little interest, but now I know it exists. There's a bunch of stuff that I've been introduced to, which initially did't appeal to me, but later on proved useful. Filters and recommendation engines needs to die, they are harmful because they limit our exposure to new ideas. Twitter should go the same way, you follow the people you agree with or the people you want to hate, never the people who make you stop and rethink your own opinions.

incision 13y ago
I think you've misconstrued my point as I'm generally in agreement with you.