HN: What Twitter feeds to you follow?

Posted by rondale_sc on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @09:46AM
from the self-post dept.

I'm embarrassingly new to twitter, and am wondering if and how the HN crowd uses twitter effectively? By 'effectively' I mean as a resource that helps stay informed about useful and germane information.

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Re:HN: What Twitter feeds to you follow? by effigies on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @01:30PM (#1532750)

Personally, I don't use it to stay informed. I don't think it's well designed for that purpose. While there are many people/companies who update their twitters with new product information or blog posts, it's all too specific and in order to get a good spread of updates, you'd be opening up a crapflood, and I have little inclination to filter it myself.

I use it to keep up with what's happening with people I know, a couple humorous feeds (e.g. @fakeapstylebook, @shitmydadsays), and authors who are writing books I want to read.

Also, there are a couple people I follow who tend to post links of interest to me (at the moment, @donsbot and @bos31337, as I'm currently obsessed with Haskell), and they don't post frequently enough to pollute my feed with their lives.

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