My Twitter feed can be broken down into tweets from a pretty narrow variety of 829 people.
- Techie/computer people: ASP.NET leaders at Microsoft; local developers that I’ve met/found; SQL Server dvelopers, DBA’s and MVP’s.
- Tech news/world/interesting: Engadget, Gizmodo, Wired, NatGeo.
- A small number of comedians I enjoy.
- Near last but not near least, local people of a variety of interests whom I have met in person or know on Twitter.
- A bunch of people that I followed but shouldn’t have and need to clean house.
I plan to test some of the available clients for organizing lists and columns and this will narrow down the count of people I follow. But that’s not enough. That’s not even my biggest twitter problem
My biggest problem is that the information i want to consume is most frequently from the first group I mentioned earlier. And their tweets tend to come between normal working hours. After people start to go home from work, my feed turns into a lot of TV plans, meal preparation, and evening activity for my friends that I know. I’m not saying I don’t want to read that, but this becomes the time of day that I want the tech tweets from the day.
A lot of the content I want is also blogged, and I subscribe to some of the same people’s blogs. I frequently look at a blog post title, look at my RSS reader, see the same post is there. That’s an annoying waste of time when the content is in the feed for me later, but it becomes even more of a waste of time when it’s not. After the heading that caught my attention, I skim the article for value, and if I want to read more, I send it from my work e-mail to my personal e-mail to review later.
By now you can guess i have an email inbox problem. You’re right.
Other than stare at Twitter all day and read each article, taking notes and filing it away, what do you do? Back when I started, each time I logged into Twitter’s website, I caught up to my feed where I left off before. That is no longer an option. So, I need a better way to hold on to the content I pick up during the day but don’t have time fro until later. Sometimes much later. I’ve got emails that are years old.
Have any suggestions? I don’t want something like Delicious, which I tend to use to store links that I know I’ll want to look at a long time from now. I want something more immediate. I’ve tried Evernote and I don’t find it useful for sorting this type of information.