ben 🟧

Hello X migrants 🌊

7/Are humans really capable of ongoing graph maintenance?

6/I think my conclusion is that the concept of "following" and graph maintenance is a tedious process, not portable, and potentially not that accurate anyway. We try to overcome this with the whole "algorithmic feed" thing, but what is really the solution? AI? Web3 portability?🤔

Summer of apps (2013): “Twitter Cleaner” hits the App Store! In order to drum up some reviews for this quick app I built called “Twitter Cleaner” (titled “Followed User Cleaner (for Twitter)” on the App Store for trademark reasons 😅), I've made it free until August 31st, 2013!

5/At one point, after having so many subscriptions moved over from Google Reader to Twitter... I had way too much crap on my Twitter feed. So, I shipped an iPhone app to help me clean it up: https://benguild.com/2013/08/09/summer-of-apps-2013-twitter-cleaner-hits-the-app

Called "Twitter Cleaner."

4/There's also the question of "feed fatigue" where sometimes accounts go stale/inactive/dormant, or the content is just not really what you're interested in anymore. (either they started posting different stuff, or you changed as a person)

3/That tool was personally how I was able to "build" my Twitter feed and use it for news, and occasional chit-chat. But, today... since Twitter and other apps "lock in" your graph... what do we do?

Even if you export your Twitter data, it's not very complete in terms of graph.

“Twitter Migration & Networking Tool” (for Google Reader) being retired on July 15 I built this tool in late 2011 to automate the migration of the bulk of my Google Reader feed subscriptions to being Twitter “follows” instead. — However, as many of you know, Google Reader was “powered down” on July 1st, 2013. 😢

2/A while ago, I built a tool (call the Twitter Migration and Networking Tool or "TMNT" 🐢) that helped people move their Google Reader (RIP) feeds over to Twitter. https://benguild.com/2013/07/02/twitter-migration-networking-tool-for-google-reader

I retired it in 2013, but it still got me thinking.

1/So, I'm trying T2, BlueSky, Mastodon... and I'm still on Twitter. Hard to make sense of it all at the moment.