Re:A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world
by mtgx on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:37AM
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I think they're just trying to apply the wrong tool for the job.
What they're probably interested in is getting news/thoughts about a handful of topics, which would be akin to following a few subreddits or forums.
But the way Twitter and Facebook are set-up is that you follow people, not topics. And people tend to talk about all sorts of topics on a given day, thus the "noise."
Re:A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world
by cpach on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:18AM
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Technorati and Twingly used to provide such services but Technorati seems to have been bought and decommissioned and Twingly has pivoted into something else.
What they're probably interested in is getting news/thoughts about a handful of topics, which would be akin to following a few subreddits or forums.
But the way Twitter and Facebook are set-up is that you follow people, not topics. And people tend to talk about all sorts of topics on a given day, thus the "noise."