Comment by mgrouchy | Hacker News Reader

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I honestly don't see this as a problem. I don't read every Tweet that comes through my stream its kind of random access information, I look at twitter every now and then and if something interesting strikes me I look into it.

While filtering would be a good feature, I think saying its a killer feature is going a bit far. I don't think the reasoning that you could follow twice as many people would make much sense from a roi perspective. If your interested in roi, you wouldn't even worry about following people, you would create custom searches about topics you are interested in and deal with those. You would certainly get more info for your time spent on twitter that way and much more focused. You can do this with basic tools like Tweetdeck search columns or even or saved searches in the standard twitter web interface.

"I honestly don't see this as a problem. I don't read every Tweet that comes through my stream its kind of random access information, I look at twitter every now and then and if something interesting strikes me I look into it."

Don't you feel like you miss out interesting and relevant tweets with that kind of random access? Imagine if the proposed filters were in place. They would give you the best and most relevant of everything. Isn't that better than random access?

No. Because I follow like 350+ people, I dont have time to read through every tweet. Also sometimes that tweet spam is relevant, you may notice someone is at some location close by via 4sq and meet up with that person, maybe I care if my close friends had eggs this morning for breakfast(maybe not, but you get the idea).

Custom searches don't capture all of the good information that's out there because I may not specify the right keywords. It's ANTI-search that I'm personally looking for.

You are not going to catch all the good information that is out there with your follow list. So searching fills in the gaps(if your interested in a subject area or something). Twitter lists help too. (ie/ gather up all the people who are known to talk about x subject and put them in a list)

Exactly. I read every tweet I'm subscribed to, and therefore if someone has too much noise, I have to delete them, but as a result I miss the real gems these people post now and then.

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