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> Twitter has, for me, become a news stream and very little more. It has for me as well. I just checked and I have tweeted exactly once in the last year, it w
by nmjohn 12y ago
> Twitter has, for me, become a news stream and very little more.
It has for me as well.
I just checked and I have tweeted exactly once in the last year, it was when I was on vacation in march. Before that, it was August 1, 2013.
However I still frequently use twitter. I have a highly curated followers list which results in 70-80% of the tweets I see being relevant to me. When I am waiting in line, or waiting for my food at a restaurant if I'm eating alone, or am just bored, it is a great way to get highly curated content without having to do really anything.
I don't know if I've ever said this before, but some of the comments on the article itself are pretty spot on.
> I can´t see where is the problem with a platform in which you can choose who to follow and what tweets you ignore/pay attention to ??? works just fine for me. I devote some time to "edit" twitter, I mean MY twitter.
> The great thing about Twitter is that if your signal:noise ratio is wrong, you have no-one to blame but yourself: resolute use of the Unfollow button cures all ills!
It's kindof like reddit, if you unsubscribe all the defaults and follow topics you are interested in (some of which get crazy specific niches and have relatively active communities for how specific a niche may be) your experience will increase ten-fold.
- grrowl 12y agoThe greatest difficulty is that you may follow someone you like, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll like their stream, and it can be difficult thing to ascertain based on a paltry handful of latest statuses. Honestly I'm surprised they haven't started influencing the order non-chronologically, I'd love to prioritise certain people I know IRL or bump certain hashtags.
- ducuboy 12y agoPrioritizing has to be done automatically, there's no way you could do that manually. And yes indeed, this is what has to be done. A system that "hand picks" exactly the items (not the whole feed) you'd be interested in, automatically, from a cluster of like-minded users. I am working on it.
- nmjohn 12y agoI completely agree with you, I would love more control over tweet priority. However, I think part of what makes twitter more unique is that you can't. With reddit and HN, I _only_ see what enough other people have upvoted to a point which intersects how many pages I'm willing to scroll through at a given time. With twitter though, I find just as much unique (at least to my eyes) content as I do elsewhere. There are a lot of people creating a lot of great content and there are not enough upvotes to bring a sizeable portion of it to the masses. And in the end it primarily comes down to post time, title, and luck. But then with twitter I at least see an article title for a sizeable portion of it. > but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll like their stream There is a semi-popular programmer that I care a lot about the project he works on and think he is a tremendous developer. However he sucks at twitter. Consistently. And that's okay, I do too, which I why I so rarely actually tweet myself. But after a few days of following him I had to unfollow him because he tweeted a lot and they were driving me crazy.