04 september 2022
Twitter is such a frustrating website.
I used gephi to sort people I follow into communities. I was planning on making lists for each community and pruning the list over time. But after adding 90 people to a list over maybe an hour, Twitter decided stop me. No clear indication about what happened, I just wasn't able to add people to lists anymore. I waited for about two hours, still couldn't add anyone.
At that point, I gave up trying to work with Twitter's interface.
Now I have a bunch of spreadsheets which I'm converting to nitter urls, so that I can follow groups of people at once. I've heard that it's best to keep lists like that to about 25, because of limitations Twitter imposes, which is annoying, since my communities range in size from 400 to 50.
For my largest community, I just broke them up into groups of 20 in order. But I am tempted to see if I can use the same network analysis software and gephi to break up the larger communities into smaller subnetworks.
Once done, I might just use nitter's rss feature to load those groups as rss feeds lol rather than through my browser. Although using livemarks in Firefox suggests that the feeds fail to load somewhat frequently, so that migth get annoying.