Using twitter lists as your feed
A while ago, Twitter changed their timeline to be algorithmically-fed rather than a simple reverse-chronological feed. In particular, they push a lot of content on me from people I don’t follow, which I really don’t like.
You can fix this by using Twitter Lists. Lists are exactly reverse-chronological, and they only show content from people you follow. The problem, though, is that following someone no longer corresponds to adding them to your feed. You have to explicitly add them to one of your lists which is much more work than hitting the follow button.
To fix this, I wrote a script that takes your username along with an “overflow list”. It then takes all your following, set subtracts all your list members from it, and sees