I have restarted the Twitter Account and no matter how I have criticized Twitter earlier, this post may be regarded as the most latest view from me.
I will first outline recent history between me and Twitter as below:
I will first outline recent history between me and Twitter as below:
- First I was searching for NSFW images on Google. One such image led to a Twitter account and it was "protected". So I repoened the Twitter account using Gmail.
- Then I thought why not have two separate Twitter accounts. One for NSFW images and the other for general stuff like celebrities or news or WWE. So I opened another account with my Yahoo mail.
- I used two accounts for quite sometime, it is actually very easy you just need to switch from one account to another in your smartphone and then what I found that I was unable to use either properly. Neither NSFW nor the General accounts in Two separate accounts.
- So I clubbed the accounts i.e. I decided to follow all from one account in another and then unfollow all from the other and went ahead and deleted that account. So I was left with just one account with me about 1000 following. But that resulted in the "newsfeed" getting too cluttered.
- Then I noticed a feature in Twitter which is lists. 'Lists' are like "group". You follow say 100 people and then you can divide those into 3 or 4 lists of 25 or whatever each. Then it becomes compact. You need not view all the people you follow at one go. You have splitted them and then you can go to the respective lists and read their "tweets". It is a compact and neat and clean way to view Twitter. It is like creating a playlist in Youtube or Dailymotion.
- And since you have just one Twitter account you do not need to jump or switch from one account to another. There is one disadvantage thought. Adding each person or user you follw to a list is monotonous exercise. You have to go to settings button beside the person and manually allott that person to a list. That is a time consuming affair but it is "one-time" exercise.
- Once you have added the all the people you follow to the lists you only need to add people to lists if you follow them newly.
- There is one more flaw. If you make too many lists then you will get confused and not know where to put the people you follow. I have noticed that 4-5 lists are enough. If there are more it would get complicated.