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by mfnex 1204 days ago
"You'd be able to compartmentalize whatever content you choose to put out."

I wish this were mandatory.

On Twitter, when it still made sense to use it (no, it's not about Musk, it sucked by shadowbanning almost everybody who wouldn't pay well before Musk came), several people whom I should really follow for my work basically FORCED ME TO UNFOLLOW THEM, because:

- their work-related tweets were ACTUALLY important for MY job (papers they published, slides from their talks, professional conversations...)

- but they buried them under garbage, meaning every work tweet was lost in 20/30 other tweets about food porn, what movie they were watching, what shirt they got for Christmas, and tons of other totally personal, totally irrelevant shit that was impossible to filter out, all coming as one stream

No matter how relevant their work tweet were, extracting them from that endless drivel just was not worth the time.

1 comments

Sounds like you wanted LinkedIn, not Twitter.
Too late, LinkedIn has already become kind of a Facebook+Twitter mixture now…
read my comment again. It was not my choice. The people I mentioned were/are only on Twitter, it is either endure their non-work drivel on Twitter, or lose everything they say.

Above all, what I report is just an example of a general problem anyway. If they were only on LinkedIn, and mixing one work-related post every 50 about what cocktail they had last Saturday, what would "wanting LinkedIn, not Twitter, change"?