the state i am in a @pocketnovel

smartasshat:

steelopus:

And it probably wasn’t as many as I should have, and here’s the reason: my concern for preventing other people’s butthurt has led me to butthurt of my own.

I had basically stopped reading my twitter stream all-together over the past month or so.  A few times a day I’d scan a couple of the most recent posts, but otherwise it all got ignored because there was just too. much. noise.

The result of all that noise is that I missed some really cool things that I shouldn’t have missed, and things that I’m quite disappointed to have missed. […]

I totally feel you, but I chose a different solution.  I follow 252 people, most of whom I follow for the lulz, a portion that I follow for “political” reasons essentially, and then a portion that I follow as local news/event sources.  Similarly, I found that I was missing out on events because of the sheer volume of tweets.  But I also didn’t want to eliminate the primary thing I enjoy about Twitter: anytime I need a laugh or to cheer up or distract myself or whatever, I just go to my home page and a fresh load of cleverness awaits me.  The last thing I need in my life is fewer laughs, you know?

Solution: RSS feeds.  With those feeds that I use for updates on events and news, I actually do want to read every single one of their toots, so I just added each account’s RSS feed to a folder on Google Reader.  I never miss an update, I can search easily, and I can tag updates (most commonly “to do” or “to eat”).  The one downside is that there’s no way to turn off seeing @ replies, but it’s easy enough to just scroll past.

I mean, of course, just because this works for me doesn’t mean it would work for everyone.  But just a possible alternative solution for anyone facing the same problem.