Re:Ask HN: What is wrong with Twitter?
by hex-m on Friday May 20, 2016 @08:59AM
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The same could be said about the www. There is a technical solution and it's called a recommender system. It tries it's best to rate the more interesting stuff higher. That's what search engines do for the www and it kinda works.
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Twitter had something called "lists" that let you categorize and segment what you follow, but they've deprecated or hidden it sufficiently that I don't use it anymore.
With the Twitter feed, I get this random spew of stuff that I can't categorize. It gets useless quickly, and I have better things to do with my time than curate twitter.
I love the basic product, but Twitter is a clueless company that needs to die so someone can replace it.
Lists are still my favorite part of Twitter, but you're right, they have it hidden away. I prefer to use Twitter clients that let me view and edit my lists easily like TweetDeck and Tweetbot. I hardly ever load up twitter.com anymore.