Twitter search is incredibly under-used.
For whatever you're currently interested in, try using the Twitter search bar and scrolling;
often you'll find something delightful related to it. It’s higher-variance than Google, but that ways in both directions.
Some specific tips for search:
- Use filters in your search, e.g. adding "min_faves:10" means only tweets with >10 likes will show up, which filters out dross. If you want to find a user’s most popular tweets, do “from:username min_faves:250”.
- If you find a particular user whose thoughts you love, try “from:username
[keyword]” for various values of ‘keyword’ and see what comes up; often
it leads you to delightful places.
- You can combine these two. For example, here are Karpathy’s tweets on LLMs, with a popularity filter included.
- Adding "filter:follows" is insanely powerful once you've built up a good
following feed. For example, say I’m organizing an unconference and I
want to get tips for it; I search “filter:follows unconference” and
magic happens. (This works best when you follow the right people,
obviously.)
- Search through various Twitter niches -- film
Twitter, Shakespeare Twitter, Rust Twitter, econ Twitter -- and enjoy
the rich content.
- For specific things, it can beat Google if
you’re clever about it; for example, if you're trying to cook a great
steak, you can often get better advice in Twitter threads than on recipe websites.
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