| Here are some crazy features I really want. I doubt you can implement, but a man can dream. 1. For some accounts, I don't see what they tweet, but want to continue seeing their retweets. 2. For some accounts, I only want to see tweets that are replies to my other followers. Otherwise, I don't want to see their tweets on my timeline. 3. Some "famous" people will retweet every praise they get from someone. You know "I totally loved @famousperson's new book". I would love to just block any retweets by them that has their own username in it. And keep everything else. 4. Chronological timeline, but only show maximum of N tweets from a particular account. 5. Craziest feature. Flip the timeline around, so scrolling downwards shows me newer tweets. And at the start of the session, move me to the last tweet I viewed. Effective use of twitter is about removing as much of the noise as possible from your timeline, so as to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. |
Personally, after I moved Retweets to their own tab, I found I just never missed them or looked at them again, and if I put them back in it just seems like random noise now.
> And at the start of the session, move me to the last tweet I viewed
This one I would like to do, but... Twitter has at least some built-in ability to do this (if you scroll your timeline a few screens worth, navigate away from the home timeline then eventually navigate back, it can restore your previous position), but I haven't found a way to make use of it for this feature - I _suspect_ they're caching the current state of whatever way they do their windowing of timeline tweets, then restoring that later, which means it's probably not possible to leverage it to jump to a particular tweet from a cold start.
Automatically scrolling through tweets until you hit a particular last-seen one isn't great alternative either, as it's pretty slow and the timeline currently seems to end after about a day and a half.