Twitter's new timeline feature

Post by wcummings » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 8:34 PM UTC

snowwrestler wrote: post #77

lukewrites wrote: post #57

I think twitter would be better off embracing lists. I follow relatively few people because of the firehose effect. My attitude towards the people I follow is that I like seeing their tweets, but I don't really care if I miss them. News would be a good example of this. It's great to get news or sports tweets in the moment, but they're probably not tweets I'm going to go back through later to find out what happened. O…

I feel like this has already been real-world tested, and manual sorting loses to algorithms. Facebook had categories or lists (can't remember what they called them) and few people used them. Google+ had the "circles" as a key differentiator vs. Facebook, and it did not help them compete at all. I think social media lists are one of those ideas that seems great in theory, but whose value is dynamically unstable in rea…

Post by Kiro » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 8:39 PM UTC

blorgle wrote: post #86

DangerousPie wrote: post #21

I know I'm going against the grain here but I think a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense. Maybe I am not as heavy a Twitter user as other people here, but I hate how easily I can miss important tweets if I just don't check my feed for a few hours. Since I am also on a different time zone than many people I follow, I end up having to catch up on hours of tweets every morning by scrolling down the page for…

The problem here is the assumption that the algorithm will do a half decent job at showing you important tweets. Judging by the facebook algorithm, which is utterly terrible at showing important stuff, it seems unlikely. Just another step in the facebookification of twitter to appease short term oriented shareholders who rated the growth too highly. It is already a mess, can't see how adding this will improve the sit…

Post by jchendy » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 8:46 PM UTC

anc84 wrote: post #4

Is that the annoying "While you were away" feature that I have been closing several times a day in the past weeks? I would like to disable it forever but there is no such option.

Post by jchendy » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 8:50 PM UTC

blorgle wrote: post #86

DangerousPie wrote: post #21

I know I'm going against the grain here but I think a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense. Maybe I am not as heavy a Twitter user as other people here, but I hate how easily I can miss important tweets if I just don't check my feed for a few hours. Since I am also on a different time zone than many people I follow, I end up having to catch up on hours of tweets every morning by scrolling down the page for…

The problem here is the assumption that the algorithm will do a half decent job at showing you important tweets. Judging by the facebook algorithm, which is utterly terrible at showing important stuff, it seems unlikely. Just another step in the facebookification of twitter to appease short term oriented shareholders who rated the growth too highly. It is already a mess, can't see how adding this will improve the sit…

Post by jamesjyu » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 8:53 PM UTC

jchendy wrote: post #97

blorgle wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem here is the assumption that the algorithm will do a half decent job at showing you important tweets. Judging by the facebook algorithm, which is utterly terrible at showing important stuff, it seems unlikely. Just another step in the facebookification of twitter to appease short term oriented shareholders who rated the growth too highly. It is already a mess, can't see how adding this will improve the sit…

I actually think Twitter's "while you were away" does a great job finding things I care about.