Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by nekgrim » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 9:44 AM UTC

dudeofjude wrote: post #18

voyou wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"why would you follow people if you were not interested in what they tweet?" Well, yeah. Who are these people that you want to silence but don't want to unfollow? What would unfollowing do, which you don't want, which silencing would not do?

IMO people get slightly offended/feel bad if you unfollow them. But as a gesture of politeness, you might want to follow someone who has followed you and is close to you, but at the same time you would not want to listen to all his tweets, in that case, silence might work, and not unfollowing.

Make a private list "My real timeline", with the people you really want to read.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by bromagosa » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 9:47 AM UTC

voyou wrote: post #16

bromagosa wrote: post #11

I started using twitter as it comes, then when it became unmanageable I started using TweetDeck, but notifications were annoying and the client was way too heavy for my machine. The tab kept freezing all the time. That was a long time ago, I haven't checked it out for a while. After all this, I switched back to plain Twitter and built my interest lists (smalltalk, music, friends, etc), but having to visit all these l…

"why would you follow people if you were not interested in what they tweet?" Well, yeah. Who are these people that you want to silence but don't want to unfollow? What would unfollowing do, which you don't want, which silencing would not do?

There are basically three kinds of people I follow: people from the Smalltalk world (or closely related tech guys), people from my musical background, and friends and acquaintances from my town.

From the Smalltalk world, I'm pretty much interested in every single tweet. Besides, people in this group don't tweet that much.

As for musicians and bands, we usually follow each other in order to stay aware of gigs, recordings, etc. But following is also an act of befriending, so there are bands and individuals who tweet way too much but to whom I still want to show interest, so I can't unfollow them.

Friends and acquaintances from my town, however, you've got to follow them... and some of them are really annoying. I don't want to unfollow them because, as OP said, «few of them might get offended and then your relations might ruin or something like that». If you live in a small enough town, you'll know what I mean :)

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by dho » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 9:50 AM UTC

I filter out most of the noise with a Greasemonkey app I wrote a while ago: https://github.com/cakebaker/lessnoise

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by sbtrct » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 9:57 AM UTC

I follow about 80 people, and I tend to read my timeline in its entirety. I look at most links that people post, and any articles that seem interesting I mail to myself to read properly later, or favourite the tweet so I can take a closer look at it at some stage in the future.

I make extensive use of lists, divided into about ten categories, each with over 150 members. I add people to lists without compunction, whereas users I follow are subject to much more stringent examination.

The alternative, which I've been thinking about doing, is just following everybody and treating the timeline as a river.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by peter_l_downs » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 9:57 AM UTC

> Fourth way is via lists, I do not like going to twitter.com//lists/xyz // the url does not look good.

This seems like a ridiculous reason to me, but to each their own.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 10:10 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by warcode » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 10:35 AM UTC

1. I used Tweetdeck with lists to manage my timeline in the past, but I just end up reading the main feed anyway. Now I simply follow/unfollow based on what content I want.

2. These days, after streamie stopped working, I have my own streaming twitter client. Easier to get exactly what you want when you are your own customer.

I find that getting a near-real time flow of messages is more engaging than twitter.com telling me I can now press a button to get tweets from 1-5 minutes ago, but maybe thats just me.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by breuderink » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 11:00 AM UTC

Like other people, I use the 'dipping in the stream' approach. Still, vocal people drown some of the other people. I am experimenting a bit with machine learning methods to rank tweets based on how interesting I find them. Does anyone know of similar solutions?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by sanityinc » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 11:09 AM UTC

bromagosa wrote: post #11

I started using twitter as it comes, then when it became unmanageable I started using TweetDeck, but notifications were annoying and the client was way too heavy for my machine. The tab kept freezing all the time. That was a long time ago, I haven't checked it out for a while. After all this, I switched back to plain Twitter and built my interest lists (smalltalk, music, friends, etc), but having to visit all these l…

The Echofon client lets you mute people you follow, or just mute their retweets, and it also lets you mute clients, e.g. Instagram or Runkeeper.

That functionality has become indispensable to me, and I hate reading my timeline in other clients.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

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Post by MojoJolo » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 11:20 AM UTC

I don't always check all the tweets (I follow 108 people). What I mostly check and is excited to is the Twitter Interactions. Mentions, replies, follower notifications go there. And those are relevant for me.