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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by jobigoud on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:01AM (#14136986)
On the mobile app it will show the feed where you left it and you read it upward to catch up in chronological order.

For me I follow about 30 ppl and remove the too talkative ones inorder for the feed to stay manageable and provide the right amount of signal. That's about 10-20 tweets/day. I think people that follow a lot of accounts must use lists or something else.

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by matwood on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:12AM (#14138936)
> I think people that follow a lot of accounts must use lists or something else.

What I have done is use Twitter as a real time newsfeed, and do not read all the tweets I missed. I open twitter and look at the current tweets, possibly scrolling back a few hours. If I missed something, who cares. If it was important it will likely show up here or some other aggregating new site I frequent.

Twitter is also great for real-time reactions when watching an event on TV. It's akin to people watching the Super Bowl for the commercials. For some shows, the tweets are better than the show and offer an additional level of entertainment.

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by elmar on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:35AM (#14138660)
if you follow more than 100 accounts you have to use lists, you can even build lists without following the underlying accounts.
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