[This is part of a series of posts — see the Introduction if you haven’t already.]
I want it all! And I want it now! — Queen
The one thing that I hate most about Twitter is that it is transient. The stream of data that flows through Twitter is constantly changing, constantly renewing. When I first started out using Twitter I followed a few people and I could see their updates from a couple days ago when ever I checked my Twitter stream.
As I followed more people I switched to TweetDeck. TweetDeck loads up the latest 200 updates from the people you follow. When I was following up to 100 people I could still see updates from the past 12 hours or so if I scrolled through the list.
Now, however, I’m following close to 500 people. Now 200 updates usually doesn’t cover 1/2 an hours worth. I’ve switched to DestroyTwitter because it allows me to restrict the number of updates that are loaded at a time (I currently set it to 40) since I’ve given up trying to read through 200 at a time. Even so, by the time I’ve read 40 updates (skimmed most of them) there are another 5 to 10 waiting. I can barely keep up with it now.
Now, my problem is that I rarely see the people who I followed in the beginning. If they’re not tweeting as I’m dipping in to the stream I miss it. Some of the people that I’m following will tweet 5 or 10 tweets in a row, further obscuring the other interesting tweets that I’m looking for.
This is not so much a problem with Twitter as it is with me. I’m having to learn to miss out on stuff because I can’t possibly see it all. It is a hard thing to learn!
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