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Loading ...I follow 150+ people. However, when push comes to shove, I’m willing to admit I don’t read half of what you guys write. I’ll wake up in the morning, and one of the first things I do is check twitter. However, rather than catch up on everything that happened through the night, I’ll skip to maybe the last hour to half hour’s worth of tweets, and check the profiles of people who’s tweets I really want to see. My mentions are looked at last, as they’re the ones I KNOW I’ll take the time to reply to.
This isn’t to say I don’t appreciate what everyone has to say, or that I find you boring. It’s just that I really don’t feel I have the time to invest in reading hundreds upon hundreds of tweets, most of which would consist of witty observations, or links to the latest news. I do enjoy reading them, but going through just an hour or two worth of tweets takes up too long in my opinion. When we think of Twitter we think of a community joined by short concise messages. But all those short concise messages combined result one BIG mass of text. If you follow more than 100 active people, chances are you have an awful lot of reading to do.
This is basically me asking you, do you read all or most of the tweets you get in your timeline? How long do you dedicate to reading them? I’m interested.
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Your post intrigued me and I will be interested in seeing the result, as I consider myself a Power Twitter User managing over 20 accounts with over 3000 people I follow total and having over 50 columns setup in TweetDeck.
I spend roughly an hour of my morning/when ever I wake up reading tweets that were sent while I was sleeping or away from my desk, It does consume a lot of time and I wish that sometimes I didn't have to but at least I get so see all my friends tweets.
However on those days I simply cannot be bothered, I have a private list setup for that and add those people which are most important so I know I don't miss their tweets.
Unless you have a massive amount of time, I don't think anyone expects you to read everything, and no one writes with the belief that everything they say will be read – it's an unwritten law, or a tradition, or an old charter or something.
I read most of them. When I'm going to sleep or bored, I'll scroll back a few hours, but I never catch 100%. I learnt to let go a few years back with a hugely active twitterstream
I have several lists that I use on Twitter. For example you and everyone who's commented here so far (how odd!) are in my 'Adelaide' list. A couple lists ('family' and 'friends') I read all the tweets in but there's never more than say 50 new all total. Usually I just follow the current stuff going on in the Friends/Family/Adelaide and Australia lists during the day and once in awhile I will take a look at either my time line or the other dozen (?) lists I have on various topics.