Kevin Simler

I’ve often thought about writing my own client just so I could have this feature. Wouldn’t even need a client. Just make a separate account that retweets the people you’re interested in once they cross your threshold, and follow that aggregated account.

haha, yes! (And meanwhile, it would pollute their feeds with retweet notifications ;)

I use Tweetbot’s “mute for a week” or “for a month”: it gives me a break from them, then they show up again for a while, until I mute them again. But I agree with your suggestion.

You can solve this either by turning the volume down or up. I have a Twitter list of people who I want to see more of - it’s a mix of friends, low volume / high value tweeters, and a few accounts I find highly interesting. It’s the leftmost column in my Tweetdeck

Oh yeah! I used to do the exact same thing — a "faves" column, regular column, and "noisy" column. But then I stopped using Tweetdeck. Maybe I should get back to it?!

You can mute an account's retweets and see only their original tweets, which I find useful for a lot of high volume accounts.

Good point! I do use this on occasion. Unfortunately I follow a number of high-volume accounts who mostly tweet their own content =/

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