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The ordering is the primary reason I stopped using Facebook and started to use Twitter. I understand they need to change things up but I really like reading everything in order. Once I'm done scrolling through the content I'm done. I don't miss things.

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> Once I'm done scrolling through the content I'm done. I don't miss things.

Twitter wants you to feel like you are never done and that you are missing things.

That's how I feel twitter operates now though. If you don't keep scrolling until you reached something stale you'll miss something. Start following a handful of power users and you'll start taking twitter breaks like smoke breaks.

Indeed. Once you go past certain amount of followed you end up inventing some rules for new ones. Like not too many tweets per day, especially if there's more RTs than OC.

Twitter is like a garden with weeds. Constant need of pruning. Facebook just hides most that you don't commit to every now and then. Twitter has also a bit too much automation and anonymity. But some of the parody accounts are gems.

My guess is the twitter users who read every tweet in their feed are a small minority.

I am one of them. But keeping your timeline manageable takes trimming (much like RSS). But maybe that is too much work for some people. Facebook (they make a selection) and Snapchat (it disappears) take care of that (but I don't want them to).

I appreciate the "While You Were Out" section at the top of my Twitter feed, but I'd still prefer the main timeline to be strictly chronological.

I hate the fact that no matter how many times I click the "I don't like this" button after closing "While you were out", it keeps coming back.

I haven't noticed that, but I can certainly see that being annoying. I mostly use Tweetbot on my iPhone, but occasionally log in on my desktop PC which where I see the While You Were Out.

Surely that is killing good will with established users? I have seen that a dozen times and cancelled it, then voted No, I didn't like it. Still comes back again and again.

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