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I wanted to use Twitter to follow researchers in my area (machine learning), but despite heavy moderating from my side, I was never able to make it work. Non-relevant posts (this is a movie/game I like! this is happening in my personal life!), political stuff, random thoughts. On the other hand, when something interesting is written, it is retweetted by 20 people and Twitter can not bundle these together. But what's even more depressing, there is no other way of keeping up with some top-notch institutions and individuals. It's actually kinda crazy that this is what we got after 20 years of Web, completely useless tool.

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It's very much as if people are slowly being introduced to the idea of a .plan file (though with more centralization).

They don't have decades of experience getting bored with poorly-organized thoughts, it's all new. And the algorithm and interface hide the simplicity of their communications, making it into a product they have to take or leave, rather than a process we can tweak to our desires.