Real question. I avoided Twitter for years, and finally bit the bullet recently.
The problem is my feed is out of control. Is there a way to filter it?
For example, I want to only match the travel deals by regex (my city), the politics stuff by popularity, etc.
I was under the impression that Twitter closed off their API to 3ed parties, so maybe this is no longer possible.
On a side note, my current company recently switched to a MicroService framework based on Twitter Finagle / Finatra. At first, I was grumpy (damn Hipsters, another failure a la Node and Mongo), but as I learn more about it and Scala, I'm really impressed!
For me, the best way to deal with it has been "Lists" (note: they're hard to figure out and use, and the interface and location of lists is different on every platform).
Twitter has long known that feed management is a major issue for users (especially new users). Unfortunately, they seem unhurried to do something about it.
Twitter's onboarding process is a mess. Last time I checked they offer up some "famous" people for you to follow, and then leave you to it to work out how to extract value from the feed.
If you can be bothered to spend hours setting up lists and/or carefully curating who you follow you might be able to extract value from your feed. Failing that, a third party app like Tweetdeck might help. IMO all of this is too much hard work.
The problem is my feed is out of control. Is there a way to filter it?
For example, I want to only match the travel deals by regex (my city), the politics stuff by popularity, etc.
I was under the impression that Twitter closed off their API to 3ed parties, so maybe this is no longer possible.
On a side note, my current company recently switched to a MicroService framework based on Twitter Finagle / Finatra. At first, I was grumpy (damn Hipsters, another failure a la Node and Mongo), but as I learn more about it and Scala, I'm really impressed!