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Quite a few of us here also have a lively Twitter presence talking about similar topics. How do you decide what goes where? In particular I‘m interested in your approach to using Twitter. I‘ve recently read this thread, which made me want to spend more time on Twitter again, which means somehow avoiding the bad parts, which are loud, annoying, and ugly, and keep creeping into your timeline, especially if you use the official app. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1125119314611171328
Probably a good occasion to remind people of @stevekrouse‘s Twitter list (don‘t know how up-to-date it is): https://twitter.com/i/lists/926777958143897600
m
I use tweetdeck and only read lists of people by topic. No ads, no recommendations, no algorithmic timeline. each list is less random than the mix of all the people you follow.
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c
On only use Twitter passively, never tweeted myself, but I'm very jealous of people with sizeable, knowledgable followings who can just use it as a personal StackOverflow
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e.g. John Carmack sometimes just throws out questions he's been pondering, the sort of things that are difficult to Google because you don't know the language the literature uses. Normally an expert in the field will reply
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About lists: I love that feature and would like to use it more, but it has such a high barrier to make it useful. The interactions to set up a list of say 50 people you want in there is just horrible, repetitive work. Or am I doing it wrong? Is there a better way to do this?
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It also doesn’t help that Twitter themselves seem to have kind of abandoned the feature, stuffing it deep within menus as if they don‘t want you to know it exists.
Oh, wait, I just looked at Tweetdeck which I haven‘t for a while. List management there is already much better.
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I try to mostly follow people who use Twitter in a specific way, similar to what Visa is doing: https://mobile.twitter.com/visakanv
Also I use the “search people you follow” feature often to find older discussions about topics when I learn about new things.
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m
@yoshiki how do you use that feature?
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@Mariano Guerra it’s under the search filters
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m
what do you search, a topic you found out recently and want to see what people you follow said about it in the past?
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I scroll down for about five Tweet minutes daily. I might comment, but I'm not about to start a thread.
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Turns out I‘m pretty new to Tweetdeck. WTH is a Collection? Any tips or strategies for transitioning from a regular feed to multiple lists instead? Do you follow/unfollow people in lists? Do you completely ignore the regular feed? Any other tricks to take back control of Twitter and tune it towards signal over noise?
@yoshiki So, I‘m well aware of visakanv, but I can‘t follow him, because he‘d totally take over my feed just because of frequency. I‘ve carefully pruned who I follow and prefer people who don‘t tweet all the time. How do you deal with that?
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Often there are people from the same bubble who don‘t tweet as much, but then retweet highlights from those high-frequency accounts. I like that kind of curation.
m
I have a list called "slow", from slow tweeters that I don't want to loose when they decide to tweet.
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y
@Stefan Pure speculation but I think the algorithm shows you more content from people you recently followed, and it decays with time. I muted Visa for a while and then unmuted him- that seemed to do the trick.
Also if you want to follow individuals who post more slowly, I recommend: https://fraidyc.at/
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