Some of the appeal of Twitter is that, unlike Facebook, there is no algorithm showing you just what it think is important.
Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?
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#32I only read Twitter on my iPad. If I have some time, mostly with a fresh cup of coffee, I open the app, load all new tweets and just read them. I follow ~80 people so this works okayish.
Some people are in a separate list. They basically tweet everything they can find or sometimes cry about stuff I'm not interested in for days. I just skim, over this list to see the interesting tweets.
Works for me, would likely fail horribly if I would follow more people.
I don't really need more features. Send 140 characters, read what others say, get a notification for mentions / DMs. The only thing I would find useful would be a synchronization between all clients. So my iPhone knows where I stopped reading on my iPad e.x.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?
#33Before Twitter made them kill it, I used IFTTT to append all the tweets to a text file. Then I could massively filter it in vim - I gave it it's own filetype so I send macros and bindings to do this.
Now I use a Twitter vim plugin to do the same. https://github.com/vim-scripts/TwitVim
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#34Earlier 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?
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, recordi…
Thanks, that's interesting, and makes me realise how much my Twitter use is conditioned by being pseudonymous and, as a result, almost entirely freely-chosen relationships. I only really follow people because I'm interested in what they have to say, not because I have some other connection to them; but if people who I know in some other context could find me on Twitter, I guess I might find myself in the same position as you.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?
#35I like the Android app called Fynch.
The official description says "Fynch enhances your Twitter experience by automatically analyzing your timeline for interesting patterns of activity. It is intended to be a tool that decomposes your timeline into smaller sets of tweets that are easier to consume. Fynch is great for identifying extremely high rates of activity, trending topic mentions, and the tweets of less active users in your following list."
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rn.fynch&h...
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?
#36I think it all depends on what you're using Twitter for...
If it's just your personal account, just check the most recent Tweets, and ignore the rest when you get bored of scrolling down. Weed out any people you follow that do not post interesting things.
If this is for business, the more followers the better. It's best to break followers into lists so that you can see the conversations you want to participate in.