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Hey Twitter, remember when Facebook used to show *everything*?

1 min readDec 12, 2012

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Remember when Facebook used to show everything in your stream, and then they switched to showing only “top stories”, determined by magic sauce?

For me, that was a pivotal moment. Yes, I wanted to know what my friends were doing, but the noise generated even by *one* person having different ideas of what I would find relevant was a lot.

For the first time, after the switch, I really felt like I could breathe.

Twitter makes me feel now like Facebook used to in the old days. Too much noise.

I’m always faced with a binary follow/unfollow decision, when in reality there’s a lot more gray, and for each person I’m interested in anywhere between 0% to 100% of what they have to say.

It’s not about curating my list to death, it’s about being always unhappy with whatever list I would pick, because those percentages add up.

So I don’t really understand why Twitter is resisting this change, and not moving to a more user friendly, relevant magic sauce based, consumption of my main timeline?

I wish Medium would have comments, I’d really love an answer.

[update] Let’s see when this will become reality. :-) My bet? Soon!

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Octavian Costache
Octavian Costache

Written by Octavian Costache

co-founder/CTO of Stellar Health, co-founder/CTO of Spring, ex-googler, author of the Multiple Inboxes gmail lab, built the Google Finance charts

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