I do not have a solution for you Vicky sorry, I'm just going to vent because you raised a very real question. What Ben said seems very reasonable to me though.
I joined the twitter "dev-sphere" a couple of weeks ago and I'm already thinking of "retiring" or at least seriously diminish the amount of time I spend on it.
One issue I have is that I live in a different timezone than most people I follow right now which means that when I wake up I have tons of conversations to scroll by which may or may not contain interesting info but already "have happened" so the most I can do is retweet something that catches my eye :D The good thing about this is that I can ponder instead of react but it takes time.
Right now (I've ignored Twitter all day, and now it's 11:41 pm here) I have 122 unread tweets and I've already gone through a lot this morning :D. I just joined, follow 39 accounts and had already to mute a specific developer because they retweet everything they find on the planet's surface :D.
I feel I already need to take a break, regroup and rethink my Twitter strategy because like this it's too much. I can't be a newcomer and already be desiring to pull the plug :D
Although my unease is rooted in a different issue, I can't help but wonder at your title and nod: I can't make up my mind either.
The dev-twitter-verse is a freaking firehose, which is amazing and scary :D
I remember when I joined Twitter a long time ago, I felt exactly the same. It was very tiresome to read everything that went on and I just could not keep up. Then someone told me, "You don't have to read everything on Twitter, just take a quick peek now and then, accept that it's impossible to keep up". So that's what I've been doing since then, and this has only been made easier by Twitter hand picking popular tweets or things you might have missed.
I do not have a solution for you Vicky sorry, I'm just going to vent because you raised a very real question. What Ben said seems very reasonable to me though.
I joined the twitter "dev-sphere" a couple of weeks ago and I'm already thinking of "retiring" or at least seriously diminish the amount of time I spend on it.
One issue I have is that I live in a different timezone than most people I follow right now which means that when I wake up I have tons of conversations to scroll by which may or may not contain interesting info but already "have happened" so the most I can do is retweet something that catches my eye :D The good thing about this is that I can ponder instead of react but it takes time.
Right now (I've ignored Twitter all day, and now it's 11:41 pm here) I have 122 unread tweets and I've already gone through a lot this morning :D. I just joined, follow 39 accounts and had already to mute a specific developer because they retweet everything they find on the planet's surface :D.
I feel I already need to take a break, regroup and rethink my Twitter strategy because like this it's too much. I can't be a newcomer and already be desiring to pull the plug :D
Although my unease is rooted in a different issue, I can't help but wonder at your title and nod: I can't make up my mind either.
The dev-twitter-verse is a freaking firehose, which is amazing and scary :D
(yep, this is a rant :D)
I remember when I joined Twitter a long time ago, I felt exactly the same. It was very tiresome to read everything that went on and I just could not keep up. Then someone told me, "You don't have to read everything on Twitter, just take a quick peek now and then, accept that it's impossible to keep up". So that's what I've been doing since then, and this has only been made easier by Twitter hand picking popular tweets or things you might have missed.
Thanks Rik! That's comforting, I just need to find my rhythm and avoid FOMO ;-)