Comments on: Filtered Twitter Accounts

By: John Tropea

John Tropea — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:42:29 +0000

Just catching up with your blog so this may be old news now.

Just like email abuse, what are ya gonna do. It’s up to the receiver to filter in the end, as not everyone is going to follow your good practice that you share with us in this post.

I use @filttr

It allows me to create lists based on people, search terms, or both.

Further to this I can even limit the stream to link only tweets.

By: Openworld

Openworld — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:49:44 +0000

I’ve been hoping for a feature that could enable Twitterers to define various “channels,” so prospective followers would have the ability to subscribe to –

- all Tweets
- personal updates
- funny/quirky stuff
- subject A
- subject B
- subject C
- etc

This would enable people to avoid a huge share of unsought Tweeting, and enable “connectors” to do a lot more in filtering/aggregating content from a wide range of Twitterers.

Are there any good ways for suggesting features like this to Twitter?

Best,

Mark Frazier
@openworld

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:56:16 +0000

Absolutely. I know what I’m looking for when I log in, and I get it. Same to my followers. They know if they want the teacher-side of me, go to that account. Personal goofy me, that account, and so on and so forth. I highly recommend it!

By: Venessa Miemis

Venessa Miemis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:43:07 +0000

Mark,

You’re right, perhaps the title was a bit sensationalist…. I haven’t been on Twitter that long, so a lot of recycled ideas seem new to me. I’ll be careful about that in the future.

I liked your post, and I’m curious about the results. You said in the post that you were going to shuffle your follows and followers….. has it helped you get better/more relevant information?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:32:42 +0000

This is certainly an interesting post, but I don’t think that it’s Scoble that pioneered it. I in fact wrote a blog post over 3 months ago about multiple user accounts, largely inspired by Dom Sagolla, one of Twitter’s founders and the author of the newly released 140 Characters: A Style Guide to the Short Form. Dom’s book sparked a lot of thought for me in my use of Twitter, with multiple accounts being the most immediately obvious impact.
If you’re interested in reading my take on multiple accounts, and how Dom helped inspire it, you can check out my post http://bit.ly/3h8qy2

By: Venessa Miemis

Venessa Miemis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:31:21 +0000

cool service. i like the ‘recipe box’ feature – i can never seem to find a good way to keep track of recipes i find.

By: Phil Michaelson

Phil Michaelson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:11:44 +0000

I completely agree that separate twitter accounts are necessary for certain parts of your life. As my twitter accounts (@philmichaelson, @kartme) both started to move professional, I realized that my personal life stream (e.g., Restaurants in NYC I like, Books I want to read), was no longer relevant to most of my followers.

I built KartMe.com to organize the links, products and places that I consider important enough to organize for later. Because I’m willing to organize them for myself in lists, people can choose to follow just my Movie list or just my Wine list.

So, my recommendation: have multiple twitter accounts for various promotional efforts, and then have a KartMe account for organizing and sharing favorites to eat, buy, see or read.

By: DerSchneider

DerSchneider — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:46:26 +0000

Yes, I agree with that and made the same experiences. Actually in some few cases I switched from originally following someone on twitter to “just” read the RSS of his blog. Which I never would have found without twitter though.

By: Venessa Miemis

Venessa Miemis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:45:10 +0000

Joel,

Thanks for your thoughts. Filtering is a sticky situation, because as I mentioned to Beth above, it’s said that creativity and innovation often come about as a result of information that is outside your interest area/unknown to you, so by filtering out the “noise”, are we filtering out the opportunity to learn something new or have a powerful idea?

I’ll have to keep thinking on this…….

By: Venessa Miemis

Venessa Miemis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:39:56 +0000

Oh, and another thing to mention – with a user like Scoble, he favorites a bunch of great content, which is essentially his bookmarks, so I could follow just his original content, and check in with his favorites whenever I wanted to.

It would be interesting if Twitter would let us tag our favorites list, so it would essentially become a social bookmarking platform too.