There are a number of brilliant thinkers and innovators I’d love to learn from and follow via Twitter, but can’t, because the signal to noise ratio is too high. Perhaps if I earned my living by promoting social media marketing, I’d have time to follow more people, but right now it’s hard to justify.
A Better Way to Filter the Good Stuff?
I wish there were an easy way to separate out the thoughtful micro-blog tweets and retweets from the private conversations. For people I don’t really know, there’s little value in a tweet from @Person_A to @Person_B about meeting at Starbucks in an hour. (Tweets like this just clog my TweetDeck.) On the other hand a concise summary of a new concept or great article/post with a link to the details has great value.
When I scan the recent tweets of active Twitter users – even the brilliant ones I’d love to follow – it seems that 80% or more of their tweets fall into the private conversation category. If I knew how to filter out those private conversations so I could read just their good stuff, I’d be following more people.
If someone has already solved this problem, please share your approach!
