<story><title>Twitter confirms Twitter Blue</title><url>https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1398022730553860102</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpeck</author><text>God forbid anyone be multifaceted.&lt;p&gt;It seems the the rise of influencer culture led to everyone else feeling like they had to only be in a specific niche, and only speak about it or they weren’t going to serve their “fanbase”.&lt;p&gt;And you know they’re probably right that they wouldn’t serve that fanbase, but good grief has it made the net a generally much more boring place with space only for near-deified experts &amp;amp; influencers and perpetual newbs, leaving little room for anyone in the middle to have nuanced and varied conversations.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>My main issue with Twitter is that you follow people, but those people have different interests. So I may follow @JohnSmith because he’s a known dev in the JS community and tweets about JS, but he also tweets about his country’s politics, what he ate at lunch, and engage in heated debats about pineapple on pizza I don’t care about.&lt;p&gt;Twitter recently introduced topics, so that you can follow one topic that aggregates lots of tweets from various people.
This is not what I want: I’d like to follow @JohnSmith, but only for the JS content.&lt;p&gt;As someone who tweets, I’d like some sort of kafka-ish topic queues: I would post tweets about JS in the JS queue, and tweets about Italian food in that other queue, so that people could follow the queues they want. In the end I don’t tweet on either topic because I’m afraid I’ll deceive people who followed me for the other content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>no no, that&amp;#x27;s not the problem.  reddit lets one person post in a particular place for a particular topic, and other places for other topics.&lt;p&gt;no one is complaining that a given person talks about multiple things.&lt;p&gt;people sometimes complain that there is only one topic on Twitter: the main stream, and therefore only one way to consume the things those individuals say.  it&amp;#x27;s all or none, and that&amp;#x27;s what people are not happy about.&lt;p&gt;there&amp;#x27;s an argument to be made that &amp;quot;this is how Twitter is&amp;quot; which is valid, I think.&lt;p&gt;there&amp;#x27;s also an argument to be made that &amp;quot;my interests are specific, and everything else wastes my time&amp;quot; and I think there is just as much merit in that point of view.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter confirms Twitter Blue</title><url>https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1398022730553860102</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpeck</author><text>God forbid anyone be multifaceted.&lt;p&gt;It seems the the rise of influencer culture led to everyone else feeling like they had to only be in a specific niche, and only speak about it or they weren’t going to serve their “fanbase”.&lt;p&gt;And you know they’re probably right that they wouldn’t serve that fanbase, but good grief has it made the net a generally much more boring place with space only for near-deified experts &amp;amp; influencers and perpetual newbs, leaving little room for anyone in the middle to have nuanced and varied conversations.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>My main issue with Twitter is that you follow people, but those people have different interests. So I may follow @JohnSmith because he’s a known dev in the JS community and tweets about JS, but he also tweets about his country’s politics, what he ate at lunch, and engage in heated debats about pineapple on pizza I don’t care about.&lt;p&gt;Twitter recently introduced topics, so that you can follow one topic that aggregates lots of tweets from various people.
This is not what I want: I’d like to follow @JohnSmith, but only for the JS content.&lt;p&gt;As someone who tweets, I’d like some sort of kafka-ish topic queues: I would post tweets about JS in the JS queue, and tweets about Italian food in that other queue, so that people could follow the queues they want. In the end I don’t tweet on either topic because I’m afraid I’ll deceive people who followed me for the other content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obstacle1</author><text>&amp;gt; God forbid anyone be multifaceted.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fine (and necessary) for everyone to be multifaceted. But it&amp;#x27;s not wrong to not care about some facets of a person you follow, in the context of social media.&lt;p&gt;Even two different people following the same person would care about different facets of that person, and not care about others.&lt;p&gt;The point is it&amp;#x27;s easier to manage the stream of information available to you if you can filter signal from noise in a way that you want.&lt;p&gt;Does that create a filter bubble? Maybe. Would it be better for everyone to read everything from everyone to get a broader perspective? Maybe. Or, maybe that would be worse, since there would be so much noise to sift through that the signal would be impossible to find.</text></comment>