Hey twitter-searchers / meta-threaders (@visakanv @conaw @QiaochuYuan) One cool new thing I've been playing with recently is when I'm threading & want something to QT on a topic, searching for tweets from "people I follow".
Searching tweets from people you follow as a threading workflow
8 tweets · March 2020 · 60 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
This workflow is very different from searching for some specific tweet I remember seeing/writing. It's led to some fun serendipity, where I discover in the course of articulating something that one of my friends had a related thought awhile ago!
Like eg this 👇 which I vaguely recall seeing but I shrugged at it the time because I hadn't deeply appreciated Carse then.
So this kind of process naturally resurfaces things at exactly the sort of moment I'm ready to really appreciate them! This tweet 👇 I recalled just now from yesterday, & found using `twf not ready` (which the reply says)
As indicated in QT above, I have a custom quicksearch for "search tweets from people I'm following" so I can do it as one thought. To create, go to chrome://settings/searchEngines or whereever and use this url: twitter .com/search?q=%s&pf=on (space inserted to avoid linkify)
In a sane #TwitterReplacement, first of all this sort of resurfacing would happen naturally while composing, without needing to manually trigger. Various ways to do this; even non-clever ones are awesome, though I'm sure clever algos could make it better (or awful)
Secondly, there would be more categories than "tweets ever from people I'm now following". I would love: - tweets I've liked - tweets I've retweeted - tweets I've ever seen ever - tweets I've replied to (& for each, an option to sort by eg like-time, not just tweet-time)
@nosilverv & @krrishd are working on some stuff in this space. Not that much to see yet but it's early stages and I'm still excited that things are happening 😊
