My usage is similar but I follow about twice the number of people. To keep things manageable i.e. consume twitter in about 30 minutes/day, I wrote a small chrome extension to rearrange my feed (sort by likes/retweets, give different weights to users and sort the feed/list).
I wrote a chrome extension to solve something similar i.e. filter out by keywords and then sort my timeline to see popular tweets that I shouldn't miss.
Somewhat related : Wrote a chrome extension [1] to reduce some noise on twitter. It should be easy to add the ability to filter out tweets by keyword (I'll do it probably this weekend if it is useful).
Amazon has a lot of cash & experience to pamper customers but once it wins over, all that'll change. The best outcome for millions of customers is to have 1 or 2 strong competitors to Amazon that'll be around for a long time to come. Else you'll be stuck with Amazon's monopoly !
I follow a few 100 users for news but it's overwhelming to keep up if you aren't checking every half an hour. To scratch an itch, I use a chrome extension (shameless plug [1]) to sort them by popularity and I can also tune down chatty users without blocking them.
Talking about deliverability, I've got a gmail contact whom I've been mailing for 10+ years, almost daily using my gmail account. One day that person mistakenly marked a single email as spam (instead of clicking delete). From then on, all my future emails to that person started going to spam for a month before we realized what was happening.
Spam filters are so aggressive & dumb that they can't filter out a false spam report. Moreover, if I've explicitly added a contact to my address book & that contact has done the same for me, and we've been mailing for 10+ years, almost daily, often multiple times a day, then it's really annoying & unexpected for our email to end up in spam.
Hate spammers who've made a simple communication so complex for everyone.
They've got a very compelling free tier to get you roped in. Works great as a CDN, integrated SSL, great interface, DDoS protection / firewall, page rules - there are just a few of the useful features.
Is there a more comprehensive free tier anywhere else ?
P.S. I'm not saying they are the best choice. They are simply too convenient & comprehensive to get started. With a single click your site can "claim" to be HTTPS even though the upstream connection "may not" be encrypted.
> Twitter, much more so than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the original form of their product
And I hope they stay that way. Despite reports on twitter's dropping valuation, I find it as an immensely valuable tool for staying up to date. I'd pay to use twitter.
I use twitter primarily as my news reader and I follow about a 100+ users.
I wrote this chrome extension to re-order by twitter timeline so that I don't miss out on the important stuff and to tune out users who tweet a lot but I still don't want to mute them. It's currently not open source, but if there's sufficient interest, I'll cleanup & put it here : https://github.com/hackybird/chrome . All data is stored locally in your browser.
Usage : Just load a timeline & click the extension. No signup needed.
Features :
- Sort any twitter timeline (or search) by retweets & likes
- Assign weights to users to change their tweets' order (e.g. someone whose tweets are important to you but they don't gather enough retweets/likes & may get buried down).
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...