A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world

Re:A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world by yeldarb on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:36AM (#16529074)

I wrote a script to split up the people I follow into lists according to a few different categories (based on keywords in their names/handles/bios sprinkled with a touch of manual massaging). It really helps to sort through the noise.

I ended up with the following lists that I can now browse separately for several disparate interests of mine:

    Founders / CEOs
    Game Dev
    Apple
    AR / VR
    Iowa (local people I follow from where I'm from)

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Re:A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world by thex10 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:56AM (#16529179)

This is one functionality I wish Twitter included! I’d love for it to use some machine learning or whatnot to naturally group all the people I follow into several distinct lists.

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Re:A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world by soylentcola on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:26AM (#16529816)

This is the main thing I love(d) in Google+ (yeah, yeah...)

Whenever I'd add someone, I picked which group or groups they fell into. I could create as many or as few groups as I wanted and then I could view posts and threads based on which "circle" they were in.

I'd be more inclined to use Twitter or any service that made this kind of sorting this flexible and useful.

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