Ask HN: How do you use Twitter? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by Leynos » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

rickmatt wrote: post #26

I don't think I browse twitter well. I alternate between your two choices, depending on how long since I last checked twitter. I would like something like 'circles for twitter' so that I could check close friends and family tweets quickly, then kill time with lower priority/higher volume users if I want to.

Isn't that what lists are for? That's certainly my primary usecase for them.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by digitalvortex » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

connect it to my wordpress blog and it auto updates.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by mkhpalm » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

I used to do A before I lost interest in twitter.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by brownbat » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 5:09 PM UTC

I barely use Twitter, but have a similar dilemma with RSS.

I use Feedly, which allows me to mark some sources as "must read," so I can read every single item. I then also add a few hundred sites where I just glance at the most recent.

It balances my "keep up on everything from x source" and the "have a steady stream of interesting to fill time" needs pretty well.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by madsushi » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 5:10 PM UTC

I only read Twitter in real time. It's like a pseudo-IRC chatroom for me. When I'm watching sports, I can fire it up and see real-time reactions (from the various sports people and writers that I follow) and have everyone go "WOW LOOK AT THAT SHOT" at the same time. Makes it almost as nice as having a living room full of friends.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by nhebb » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 5:28 PM UTC

b.

But about six months ago, I stopped posting and now I rarely visit. It wasn't a conscious decision. I just got bored with it and started tapering off usage.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by mdisraeli » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

I'm trying to use twitter more, but I find keeping up to date with it very difficult! This isn't helped by following several distinct groups of people, and only having mobile client access most of the time. What do people recommend using to keep on top of twitter?

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by radley » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

I use desktop Twitter and follow a handful each of professional designers, UX/UI devs, artists, DJs/producers, Android blogs, tech blogs, kaomoji artists, and @HNTweets.

Most don't flood, spam or waste my time. Too much signal to noise, no matter how popular you are, I have to unfollow.

I keep the feed open and look over every few minutes. I catch up on mornings if I'm bored.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by netman21 » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

mrThe wrote: post #11

netman21 wrote: post #8

I follow 30,000 accounts on Twitter. There is no way that anything relevant/interesting shows up on my "feed". I always use the "@Connect" filter so I do not miss any Tweets directed at me. I search on key words or hashtags to follow interesting discussions and get news. I keep a separate tab open to @glenngreenwald since everything he Tweets is interesting.

>I follow 30,000 accounts on Twitter oh God why?

I use Twitter as a broadcast medium. People follow me for news and very short form analysis. 80% of the hits to my blog and column come from Twitter. Of course I have a lot of followers and it is rude not to follow back.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use Twitter?

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Post by netman21 » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 7:06 PM UTC

tehwebguy wrote: post #27

netman21 wrote: post #8

I follow 30,000 accounts on Twitter. There is no way that anything relevant/interesting shows up on my "feed". I always use the "@Connect" filter so I do not miss any Tweets directed at me. I search on key words or hashtags to follow interesting discussions and get news. I keep a separate tab open to @glenngreenwald since everything he Tweets is interesting.

That is a lot to follow. Do you run a promotional account?

In a sense. I promote me. I actually maintain two Twitter accounts, one to broadcast industry news and my speaking gigs, the other on the topic of my first book. Both accounts have over 30K followers with a lot of overlap.