What's the best Twitter assistant available?

October 14, 2016 6:26 AM

Recently I got active on Twitter again, and I'm experimenting with following a much larger group of folks than I have in the past. Now that I have achieved a critical mass, though, reading my feed is like drinking from the proverbial firehose. What I really need is a decent AI to crunch that feed into a digest with the best items, or at the very least, a list of trending topics from just my feed. Surely such a thing exists?
posted by monju_bosatsu to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Did you try enabling "Show me the best tweets first" in settings?
posted by caek at 6:43 AM on October 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Best answer: http://nuzzel.com/ does a good job of surfacing links that are shared by people you follow.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 6:56 AM on October 14, 2016

This isn't necessarily what you're looking for, but if you turn off RTs on everyone you're following (or almost everyone) that timeline will become a lot better. I see RTs from literally 2 out of 500+ people I follow.
posted by Juliet Banana at 9:09 AM on October 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

Best answer: Seconding Nuzzel.

Something I do is sort my people into lists (you can make these private if you want) and then use an app like Tweetbot to read all the tweets from one list at a time. So I have a list of just journalists and just my IRL friends and it makes it possible for me to prioritize who/what I'm getting caught up on.
posted by purple_bird at 9:55 AM on October 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

Best answer: I use lists, and also get notifications from a select group individual tweeters, mainly personal friends who tweet good stuff, and cool accounts who don't tweet much, so I don't miss the things I really want to see.
posted by Helga-woo at 6:05 AM on October 15, 2016

Response by poster: Thanks for the Nuzzel recommendation, that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 6:10 PM on October 17, 2016