DCThrowback writes to Steve Sailer:
1.) Utilize the mute button for people whom you follow but who do not tweet much of value. They’ll never know they’ve been muted.
2.) Using other people’s lists enables you to be able to read people w/o following them. If you create a list, you can mute people in your main timeline, but you read them when you want. For example, let’s say you’re a fan of UCLA football. You can follow some national and local writers to get up to date info on the team, but you don’t want it clogging up your tweets from @glaivester on the national question, so you can mute them regularly if you don’t want to hear about some UCLA beat guy complaining about airport coffee.
Follow all the writers, mute ‘em, then put them on a Sailer UCLA CFB list. Then on Saturday night, you click over after/during the game, you see the instant reactions, but they don’t clog up your timeline on Wed at midnight.
3.) I follow an absurd amount of people, some of whom rarely tweet. The karmic followback is a nice touch. Bottom line: people who tweet out personal stuff, unless humorous or interesting rarely do well. It’s mostly a meritocracy among the high IQ set. And they give their nuggets or ideas away for free, which is amazing to me. If the price of that is a link to their latest article, I am totally okay with that trade.
4.) Must follows from the Sailer comment threads include @danfromdc, @dpinsen, @sobl1, @heartiste, @glaivester, @mangan150 etc. There are likely more, esp among the NRx set, but that’s a great start.
