DISQUS

Bertil · 5 months ago

I think you are missing the decentralised innovation model that has made Twitter's success so far. I use Twitter as an academic tool, and I would value group a lot; because I have an inter-disciplinary approach, very sophisticated suggestion engine would be great to understand apparently distant discovery that might interest me. Someone using it locally would love to have distance-based filters, etc. — and the “etc.” is the important part: by encouraging any filter (other then an abvious one) Twitter would choose a use, instead of letting third parties innovate.

pruett · 5 months ago

I agree that Twitter is an absolutely amazing academic tool. Regarding its Trending Topics however, I believe Twitter can do more in terms of uncovering interesting developments. They have so much raw data to play around with, it still feels that they are complacent with the current 10 keyphrase model.

Third party tools have made Twitter what it is today...no one will deny that. However, as I mentioned in the post, I would like to see a bit more done in the case of unearthing interesting developments. It's the aggregation in this particular case, that in my opinion, leads to stale, group think.