Re:Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem
by mmahemoff on Saturday October 05, 2013 @04:04PM
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"I've always wondered how people who follow thousands of people are able to get much value from their timelines."
Simple: TweetDeck. I can see it now on my 2nd screen, with 32 columns allowing me to, yes, effectively follow thousands of accounts and topics using lists and filters.
Acquiring and growing TweetDeck is really the best thing Twitter's done, from a purely selfish experience, as it's become a fantastic research/communication tool.
It's obviously low priority for them, evidenced by shutting down the mobile clients, but it seems they are smart enough to keep it running to keep a percentage of power users active in the network.
Re:Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem
by stormbrew on Saturday October 05, 2013 @03:42PM
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Every new version of the android twitter app makes it harder to get at the lists (currently, from launching the app it takes going through 3 levels of menu to get to my main list). It's a feature that Twitter itself clearly wants to bury but can't be bothered to just kill.
Speaking of lists, I disagree with the author's claim that they are hard to set up. Twitter (and many Twitter apps) have made a list quite easy to set up, and monitor. Doing this is one way to handle the unfiltered feed problem.
He brings up an interesting point, though, regarding negative behaviors such as being less likely to follow new people. I agree that this can happen, but the flip side is people may be far more selective about who they follow as time goes on. Assuming that such users are regularly unfollowing bad or spammy accounts, their Twitter experience should improve over time.