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Comment by fogleman | Hacker News Reader

Back and forth discussions are not the primary use of Twitter. I had a hard time with that for years too before I finally "figured it out." You just need to follow a lot of people who share your interests and then your timeline will become more interesting.

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It does... until everyone stops talking about those interesting things, and starts ranting non-stop about politics. I may even share their political views... but I'd rather be able to mute that garbage and only read about the stuff I have interest in.

Yeah, I follow mostly nerds and comedians on twitter. Up until this election season, most of my feed was nerds talking about things they built and comedians telling jokes.

Now my feed is literally 60% nerds talking about politics and comedians talking about politics.

I'm also something like this. Luckily, Americans are a minority in my feed, so while the previously topical tweets of those who I unfollowed will be missed, it was not a big change for me.

I've spent a lot of time curating who I follow, and I generally enjoy the people I have on there. But Tosh and the Mitch Hedberg bot don't put out enough to make up for the on-slaught of garbage, ads, and political opinions. I might find it more interesting if I was into Justin Beiber, who's trending ever time I look. Maybe I just need some suggestions on interesting feeds.

Mitch's low twitter output could come from a variety of factors. I'm banking on either a) heavy touring schedule or b) his death in 2005.

> You just need to follow a lot of people

Or a few people :) I follow less than 50, and a fair number of those are inactive.

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