Twitter question

[knapplc]

So I joined Twitter a while ago and it's OK, but I haven't been using it much because it's so annoyingly full of posts by other people. I started following Andy Staples and Stewart Mandel of SI, and my feed is nothing but them yacking at people. How can I follow people but not have my page SO cluttered by their nonsense? I just want to check their stuff once in a while.

[killer cacti]

Easy knapplc...you follow killer cacti @aeargle

[Enhance]

I don't think there is a way to avoid the clutter, knapplc. I have a Twitter account, but I just click on the people I'm following to see their updates. I don't follow the news feed because there is just too much crap on there.

[RockyMountainOySker]

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago when I saw that Suh started an account. I also started following Bill Simmons but got so annoyed with what he was posting (and the frequency - like every 10 mins about complete b.s.) that I dropped him.

 

Now I only follow athletes and I'm back to liking it. I went to KU so I follow a few KU NBAers....they are my favorite b/c they'll have conversations between each other and I get be a part of it. Suh's tweets are also pretty solid...he puts links up to what he's doing, says how the combine went, etc.

 

 

 

They way I get rid of the clutter is by using a Twitter iPhone application (called Echofon). This allows me to only see tweets of people I'm following and gets rid of a lot of the random b.s.

[GSG]

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago when I saw that Suh started an account. I also started following Bill Simmons but got so annoyed with what he was posting (and the frequency - like every 10 mins about complete b.s.) that I dropped him.

 

Now I only follow athletes and I'm back to liking it. I went to KU so I follow a few KU NBAers....they are my favorite b/c they'll have conversations between each other and I get be a part of it. Suh's tweets are also pretty solid...he puts links up to what he's doing, says how the combine went, etc.

 

I only follow 8 people and never plan to tweet anything myself. I think of it as a way to be involved in someone life that I never normally would be a part of.

 

I think they call that stalking. Right? Just playin

[killer cacti]

My one rule for myself on Twitter...don't ever follow any journalists...they seem to think that they need to tweet a link to every single thing they write...

[RockyMountainOySker]

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago when I saw that Suh started an account. I also started following Bill Simmons but got so annoyed with what he was posting (and the frequency - like every 10 mins about complete b.s.) that I dropped him.

 

Now I only follow athletes and I'm back to liking it. I went to KU so I follow a few KU NBAers....they are my favorite b/c they'll have conversations between each other and I get be a part of it. Suh's tweets are also pretty solid...he puts links up to what he's doing, says how the combine went, etc.

 

I only follow 8 people and never plan to tweet anything myself. I think of it as a way to be involved in someone life that I never normally would be a part of.

 

I think they call that stalking. Right? Just playin

I had just gone back to edit that out....beat me to it!

[knapplc]

That's silly that you can't control the amount of content you see on your page. Mandel and Staples absolutely flood my feed with nonsense. I think Mandel uses Twitter like MSN.

[Dundermifflinite]

I follow lots of folks. I don't know enough about it, but if you put your stuff into lists it may be easier?

[kansas husker]

Word of advice DO NOT set up the mobile alerts I have forrest griffen on mobile alerts. Need to take him off but I forgot my login and I might as well have adds for his sponsers sent directly tom because that's what it seems to be.

[Dundermifflinite]

Word of advice DO NOT set up the mobile alerts I have forrest griffen on mobile alerts. Need to take him off but I forgot my login and I might as well have adds for his sponsers sent directly tom because that's what it seems to be.

 

I had all mine set up for text alerts...then I got my phone bill. I called Verizon and threatened to cut of all of my fingers if they counted all of those text messages.

[zoogs]

That's silly that you can't control the amount of content you see on your page. Mandel and Staples absolutely flood my feed with nonsense. I think Mandel uses Twitter like MSN.

 

But that's pretty much the whole point of "following."

 

Yea, I don't really get the Twitter craze either.

 

And strangely SkerChicago, that didn't really sound like stalking! I mean, it came off pretty bad but I see what you mean.

[rawhide]

I think he meant living vicariously through someone else

 

or stalkin'

 

GBR

[808Husker in KCMO]

Best way to do it is create lists. For example, I have a Royals list that has accounts associated with Royals baseball. While, I do not follow all of these accounts, I can click on my list and see all of their updates in one place without mucking up my own news feed.

[knapplc]

Would the person who gave my initial post in this thread -1 please respond and say what they found objectionable?