| I can't laugh hard enough at this. I agree I (sorta) hate the Facebook filtering algorithm, but I find Twitter even more impenetrable. It's just impossible to figure out what's going on. Here's my timeline, just opened it up for this comment: * Account I follow, 15s ago. * PROMOTED post from 5 days ago.
(here I've already run out of browser real estate on a 27" display because the tweets take so much damn room. Scroll down a page) * While you were away: post from 3 days ago * While you were away: post from 4h ago * While you were away: post from 1 day ago * While you were away: post from 3 days ago * While you were away: post from 6h ago * While you were away: retweet from 2 days ago * While you were away: post from 1 day ago * Actual twitter post from user I follow, 2h ago. * PROMOTED from 18 days ago For all intents and purposes, the Twitter feed is less chronological, less useful, and less content-dense than Facebook, and that's saying something considering that Twitter is supposedly a 140char service. I had to scroll through 3 pages of crap before I got to the actual chronological twitter you speak of. Also, they have this horrible habit of making tweets with a white background, then a tiny grey divider between tweets so it can be hard to tell at a glance when you've moved from one section of content to another -- much like when GMail went from colored message threading to all-monochrome. |