It's always confused me to that I can't prioritize tweeters into 1, 2 and 3. Open up twitter after 8 hours and the tweets are sorted in priority.

Because this feature would be abused by everyone who thinks too highly of their own posts.

How would that work? I mean I would follow a new person and categorize them into 1, 2 or 3 preference.

I stopped following the president because his feed would crowd everything else out. Same with CNN or the NYT. I just don't want them to crowd out the Bret Victors on my feed.

I use lists to separate different groups of people

lists are useless imo, they are just like contact lists in skype or aim chat. And to make them there is no reward after. Lists would be useful to organize people and give different rules to have posts leak into main feed. for example posts with at least 2 retweets and/or 2 likes. if they'd make something like that, that would be awesome.

For now I just don't bother I scan fast enought to find interesting bits for me.

my 2c.

Have you tried seperating your lists into different columns in Tweetdeck? That seems to be what they were made for.

yeah that's how i use them