Now what?

Coming soon to your Twitter feed - tweets from people you don’t follow

via Ev Williams, in his post describing the ReTweet feature:

“The perfect Twitter would show you only the stuff you care about—relevant, timely, local, funny, whatever you’re most interested in—even if you don’t follow the person who wrote it.”

Determining the stuff I care about is going to be quite a challenge, especially with the character and metadata limits that currently exist for each tweet. Location and Retweet (and maybe Lists) awareness will definitely help, but I’m wondering if the secret sauce is yet to be added to the Twitter stream.

I think Flickr’s “interestingness” is the best example so far of implicit curation - and what Flickr has that I don’t know if Twitter does is a concept of “views”…sure a person may have a lot of followers on Twitter - but does that mean their tweets are actually being read/seen? Beyond Retweeting, I think Twitter could benefit from having a more highlighted “favorite” or “like” feature…or any other additional features that sort interesting from uninteresting in as low-friction a way as possible.