I agree with you completely, I wrote this almost a year ago: http://erikaugust.com/thoughts/twitter/ http://erikaugust.com/thoughts/twitter/ Twitter really is

I agree with you completely, I wrote this almost a year ago: http://erikaugust.com/thoughts/twitter/ http://erikaugust.com/thoughts/twitter/ Twitter really is what you make it. A self-curated news/information source. That being said, Twitter just needs to make that user experience as easy as possible - during the on-boarding process. It could be as simple as figuring out your actual interests and recommending lists. Instead, Twitter asks me to follow Taylor Swift. They also do some geolocation stuff - asking me to follow the City of Colorado Springs. That is slightly better. But, what if, the "quickstart" prompted me to enter my interests? I would just type "#coding" - and @DHH, Carmack, and some others came up available as a list of Code Giants? I would be ensnared, instantly.