Initially, I discovered the “AI Twitter Recap” section of the AI News newsletter (example). It is good, but it doesn’t actually include the tweet texts, and it isn’t quite enough to make me feel fine about skipping my Twitter home screen.
So—I made an app that extracts all the tweet URLs that are mentioned in all of my favourite newsletters, and lists them in a feed. Then I blocked x.com/home (but not other x.com URLs, so I can still read and engage with particular threads) on weekdays.
This is just repackaging the curation work that is done by my favourite newsletters. But I’m enjoying having a single place to check, that feels more like the Twitter feed I want to have. It’s helped me feel fine about blocking the normal Twitter home screen for larger fraction of the week.
This setup has various obvious issues—in particular, it’s still not sufficiently tailored to my interests. I could improve things by having an LLM classify search results from the Twitter API, but sadly the $100 / month plan only lets you read ~300 tweets / day. And then the next tier is $5000 / month...
I made a change to my Twitter setup recently.
Initially, I discovered the “AI Twitter Recap” section of the AI News newsletter (example). It is good, but it doesn’t actually include the tweet texts, and it isn’t quite enough to make me feel fine about skipping my Twitter home screen.
So—I made an app that extracts all the tweet URLs that are mentioned in all of my favourite newsletters, and lists them in a feed. Then I blocked x.com/home (but not other x.com URLs, so I can still read and engage with particular threads) on weekdays.
This is just repackaging the curation work that is done by my favourite newsletters. But I’m enjoying having a single place to check, that feels more like the Twitter feed I want to have. It’s helped me feel fine about blocking the normal Twitter home screen for larger fraction of the week.
This setup has various obvious issues—in particular, it’s still not sufficiently tailored to my interests. I could improve things by having an LLM classify search results from the Twitter API, but sadly the $100 / month plan only lets you read ~300 tweets / day. And then the next tier is $5000 / month...