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Re:A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world by petercooper on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:42PM (#16531933)
How is it humanly possible to ingest the daily feeds from a couple of thousand of people?

I know a few hundred people in real life but I don't feel a need to call them all up every single day. Ditto for Twitter. I can follow a wide range of people and dip in and out of it, enjoy the variety, and move on. I'd want to read everyone's every tweet as little as I'd want to know every one of my acquaintance's thoughts every day..

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Re:A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world by betenoire on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:00PM (#16533266)
but... but you get choose who you call, so you only make one call. But you can't unread tweets to find the one you want to read. So are these just snapshots of a moment in time you look at? Which is nothing like calling someone on the phone.
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