Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by sytelus on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:52PM (#31160442)

I would add an ability to follow more than 5000 people. I follow mostly AI/ML researchers in the field and this limit is nausiating. Why can't there be more than 5000 interesting people in the world?

I would also add ability to privately mark people as "Friend", "Collegue", "Trusted" etc so that I can influence algos to show more stuff from people I care. Facebook has this feature to mark friend as "Favorite" and it has seriously improved my newsfeed. Unfortunately, they limit it to 30 and it's just nonsensical.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by 98Windows on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:12AM (#31166038)

Have you tried twitter lists?

Also doesn't following 5k people make your timeline way too chaotic?

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by nmeagent on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:59PM (#31187288)

One problem with Twitter lists is that they are public by default. When I started using Twitter again last year, I pretty much partitioned everyone I followed into many such lists and discovered over time that though you can make them private they had a nasty tendency to become public again randomly and for no apparent reason. I asked their support repeatedly to look into this and never received a response.

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