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Managing the Chaos of Twitter
How to keep up with the tweets you want to read
Let’s assume you know the basics about Twitter. You can tweet, you can add hashtags, you can tag your friends, and you can follow people. You’re hanging out in the world’s biggest, most freewheeling chatroom, and everything feels great.
At least, that’s how it starts. But here’s the problem. As you start to build followers, the feed of tweets that Twitter funnels into your timeline grows. And grows. Follow more than 100 people (a modest number for any twitter user), and you’ll get dozens of tweets a day. Cross 1,000, and the stream becomes a deluge.
This isn’t necessarily a problem. After all, Twitter isn’t like email, and no one expects you to read every tweet or pay attention to what’s going on all the time. But it is limiting. If you’re facing a torrent of tweets, it’s hard to make sure you see the content that’s important to you. It’s harder to engage with the people you really care about, which hurts your chances of getting their attention and reduces your ability to get your own voice heard.
Fortunately, there are several ways to deal with a Twitter overload. In this article, you’ll see four of the most effective approaches.
