Twitter自我破坏攒人气

    无论理由是什么，人们似乎想要因为这个理由坚持使用Twitter。对于我们其他人来说，理想的情况是出一个类似“Twitter专业版”（不过希望这个名字不要比Twitter更加傻气）的服务，在那里只能发布链接和主题词，禁止抱怨。

    这似乎是不可能发生的，至少短期内不现实。不过谢天谢地，Twitter有很强的可定制性。每位用户的体验都有所不同。每天都忙着发信息讨论“电臀舞”和争论究竟他们能不能成功“约炮”的人，他的设定同整天关注叙利亚新闻的人大不一样。如果你对那些唠叨（或是每天发布几十条甚至几百条信息的Twitter狂人）感到厌烦，那就少关注个人账户，而更多关注机构账户。根据用户发布链接的频率来决定是否关注他们——频率越高越好。

    悲哀的是，许多发布大量优秀内容链接的聪明人也有卷入对话的倾向——尽管谈话的主题比起讨论“电臀舞”更高尚一些，但是这还是会削弱人们对他们的兴趣。虽然做出抉择并不容易，不过你也许最好还是取消关注他们，同时通过那些可以一口气使用许多句子来表达想法的途径与他们进行沟通。（财富中文网）

    译者：严匡正 

    Whatever the reason, people seem to want to stick to Twitter for that stuff. For the rest of us, the ideal would be something like a "Twitter for Professionals" (but hopefully with a less stupid name than Twitter) where nothing would be allowed other than a link and a descriptor. Yammering would be forbidden.

    That seems unlikely to happen, at least any time soon. But thankfully, Twitter remains highly customizable. Each user's experience is different. Somebody who spent all day Monday tweeting about twerking and debating whether or not they would "hit dat" follows a very different set of accounts than does somebody who spent the day following the news from Syria. If you're annoyed by all the chatter (or by Twitter obsessives who tweet dozens or even hundreds of times every day), follow fewer personal accounts and more institutional ones. And choose which personal accounts you follow based on how often each person tweets links -- the more the better.

    Sadly, a lot of very smart people who post links to a lot of great stuff also tend to get into a lot of conversations that -- while perhaps somewhat loftier in subject matter than conversations about twerking -- might be less than interesting to you. It's not an easy choice, but it might be best to unfollow those people, and talk to them in a context where thoughts can be expressed using more than a couple of short sentences at a time.