Comment by dpcan | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dpcan | Hacker News Reader

I think it's problem is that, as a user, I've pretty much ruined it for myself.

I follow almost 1300 people. I don't even know how it got to that. Probably 2% of those tweet regularly, about 0.1% tweet anything valuable or interesting. It's just too large to go through and curate now.

I don't know who sees my tweets. There's no "viewed" count or "who viewed" your tweet. I would think, if it flows past someone's eyes, it would be nice to know that it did, and how many times.

Promoted tweets should have a bold background color. I never notice when one is promoted other than it feels like it might be.

And something that really can't be fixed IMO is to have Twitter only show things I will be interested in. I would like it to be able to read my mind. Is that really too much to ask?

> It's just too large to go through and curate now.

My advice? Declare bankruptcy. Unfollow everyone, and go back and start building up a fresh list of follows that you're genuinely interested in.

Twitter's list creation feature seems to be underutilized by most people also.

Having lists of people I follow (or even some that I don't, but are still in one of my lists) categorized by things like 'Tech News' and 'Video Games' and keeping them relatively small and focused is exactly the way I prefer to use Twitter, especially with clients that make viewing and editing lists easy like TweetDeck and Tweetbot.

>I don't know who sees my tweets.

analytics.twitter.com, yo

edit: it won't tell you who, but it will tell you how many

It's also available directly from the mobile app as explained here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20171990

I've seen that for so long and I've never been curious enough to tap it. It is pretty cool to have that in the mobile app. Makes it WAY easier to manage several accounts & get analytics on them in one mobile app. If only Facebook would do something like that.

A website like https://manageflitter.com/ will make the curation much easier. (There are others but that's the one I use.)

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