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Is there any way of interacting with Twitter that doesn't leave one feeling like they're in a constant shower of confetti?

My brain has a dreadful time with the inundation of all those tiny, discrete bits of information. It prefers things in nice big chunks that it can focus on, process, finish with, and then move on to the next -- one at a time. It does not do well with a grain of this, a niblet of that, a morsel of something else, the odd atom or two of eighteen other unrelated things... GAH.

Has anyone with similar issues figured out how to deal with this? Are there Twitter tools that help one manage such things?

This question brought to you by the apparent migration of much of the podficcing community to Twitter, leaving me feeling left behind and out of the loop, wondering where the party went.

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Create some themed lists, maybe? I don't use the tool since confetti-brain is basically what I have normally, but lists will filter to your parameters. If you use the website instead of an app, click the settings wheel and select 'lists'. There's more on using it in the Help section.

I use TweetDeck's desktop app, which you can customize as much as you like. If you wanted it only to show your podficcing list and, say, RL friends, it could do that. I think you can also do a column that's all #hashtag.

Granted, none of that will stop Twitter being a constant barrage of tiny super-random communiques. It just narrows the stream somewhat.

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Is there any way of interacting with Twitter that doesn't leave one feeling like they're in a constant shower of confetti?

Because Twitter is made up of a constant stream, I'm gonna go with no.

Maybe if you either follow people who rarely tweet or use a Twitter client to mute a lot of terms (example, I occasionally do mute tweets about hockey, Teen Wolf and 1 Direction if I'm not in the mood to see anything about those things. Nine times out of ten, I end up scrolling through my timeline.)

Honestly, Twitter is just another platform (just like LJ/DW, the book of faces or Tumblr). So, it really depends on what you're looking to get out of it.

I never thought I'd get a Twitter account...until I got into my current fandom. Now, I can't imagine life without Twitter.

For me, Twitter is kinda like a non-stop chat. It's the second thing I check when I wake up (to catch up with my friends who live in Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK) after my gmail. But then, I'm the kind of person who has no problems picking up chat or text conversations weeks after they started. YMMV

FTR, my tweets aren't as often as other people I follow, my twitter is locked (I might get a second account under my RL/offline name but I'm still mulling that), and I follow 116 people (out of which about 65 are following me back because they are people I know/am friends with.)

Now, Tumblr it's a whole 'nother thing. I read a handful every day but I don't have one of my own. Yet.

From what I've seen of Twitter usage in the podfic fandom, I feel that it's more for networking and making posted podfic announcements. As a fandom, podfic does have a strong presence on Twitter--which caught me by surprise but there we are. That said, I still see a lot of activity on podfic comm such as