<story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathansizz</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why Twitter never implemented some sort of categorization feature. There are many individuals that I&amp;#x27;d follow if I could just get a subset of their tweets in my feed.&lt;p&gt;For example, I might want to follow scientists&amp;#x27; tweets on science, but not their political or favourite sport team tweets. Right now it&amp;#x27;s either all or nothing, but why can&amp;#x27;t people categorize their tweets so only people interested in them see them? This would be better for both parties.</text></item><item><author>FiloSottile</author><text>&amp;gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.&lt;p&gt;This is terrible. They are introducing a way to broadcast mentions without using .@, which is great. So why also making non-reply mentions forcefully broadcasted, with no way to hide them!?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want my @ThreeUKSupport tweets to go to all my followers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1024core</author><text>This is why I can&amp;#x27;t bear to open the Twitter app. I signed up, and followed a few of the emergency agencies in SF, hoping to catch tweets about fires, accidents, etc. But these numbskulls keep blabbing away about awards, charity events, dinners, promotions, etc. etc. that it&amp;#x27;s basically useless. So I uninstalled the app a few days later.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathansizz</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why Twitter never implemented some sort of categorization feature. There are many individuals that I&amp;#x27;d follow if I could just get a subset of their tweets in my feed.&lt;p&gt;For example, I might want to follow scientists&amp;#x27; tweets on science, but not their political or favourite sport team tweets. Right now it&amp;#x27;s either all or nothing, but why can&amp;#x27;t people categorize their tweets so only people interested in them see them? This would be better for both parties.</text></item><item><author>FiloSottile</author><text>&amp;gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.&lt;p&gt;This is terrible. They are introducing a way to broadcast mentions without using .@, which is great. So why also making non-reply mentions forcefully broadcasted, with no way to hide them!?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want my @ThreeUKSupport tweets to go to all my followers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psychometry</author><text>Same goes for Facebook. They surely have the ability to discern political posts from non-political ones, but the only control over what appears on our news feeds is follow&amp;#x2F;unfollow.</text></comment>