If everyone in the planet talked at the same time, we would be hearing billions of speech, all at the same time. Thankfully, Nature has a mechanism to prevent this catastrophe, from happening.
Nature loves constraints. Take for example, the plain old Air. It enables transmission of Sound and at the same time, Air prevents Sound from going overboard.
Twitter is a medium unlike Air. It is merely a medium of transmission devoid of friction of any sort, which is why we could possibly get every tweet, from our neighbor to a gal in a distant land, all at the same time.
The work is only half-over. We need a way to be able to pay attention to the tweet of an interesting guy from our neighborhood. If he does not resonate with our present worldview, the tool should switch him automatically,with the gal in Finland, who is far more interesting to us.
This could be instrumented by an 'intelligent follower switch'. Your tuner in Scan Mode,switches to different stations, unless you pause and pay attention. This feature would be incredibly useful, if the switch is intelligent, based on what we listened to, in the past.
Constant switching could get annoying too. There is a delicate balance. Such a switch must have the right constraints designed in place, just like 140 characters is a fine constraint, that makes twitter what it is.
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