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.@twitter to ruin Twitter. Booooo. http://t.co/qC9oZLGpjr
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) September 4, 2014
Yup. RT @dloehr: No one signs up for @twitter looking for a middleman to curate for them. If you must, make that optional for users.
— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) September 4, 2014
A @facebook style filtered ("curated") feed is the exact opposite of what I want on @twitter and from social media. http://t.co/jWHPFGNlFJ
— Sean Finnegan (@IMFinnegan) September 4, 2014
To understand why people are filled with such anger, you need to understand why they (well, really we, since I'm one of those lunks who spends too much on the site) like Twitter so much. We might as well start by admitting that it is incredibly unfriendly for new users. When you sign up you don't get to see anything until you follow some people, and it takes you a while to realize that Twitter isn't one big community, it's hundreds or thousands of little overlapping communities that are all talking within themselves, making in-jokes, and subtweeting their antagonists. It's also a place where everything is on the same level—celebrity tweets, people bitching about airlines, insane novels about Homer Simpson smoking marijuana in Iraq. You can curate this stuff by sorting your follows into lists, or you can just let it all wash over you, trusting that if something interesting or important is happening on the internet, Twitter will naturally put it front and center..@twitter: "Let's be more like the worst goddamn website on earth." http://t.co/zAmXozv8vG
— Spencer Hall (@edsbs) September 4, 2014
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