1. I hate infinite scrolling and algorithmic surfacing. It's maximizing engagement and not giving me content I care about. I don't care for the dopamine rush.
2. I want to leverage visual memory, you know what you've seen even over a few days, and it's easy to scan through a list of peoples' last posts to know you've already seen it. A quick scan with positional context that doesn't mutate every 30 seconds trying to keep you from bouncing.
Imagine reading a newspaper where the columns reloaded every 30 seconds.
This tries to be precisely the opposite of that, though individual user columns will update if they post, that's part of Twitter's iframe JS though, so out of my hands.
This is actually what TweetDeck is for. The columns run into infinite scrolling land pretty fast with # topic searches. Still, it's on my mind to parametrize what handles / topics to load via the URL hash, so stay tuned. Easier than downloading / editing the original file anyways.
This would also allow you to directly bookmark a collection of handles / copy / paste a URL to others.
Interesting. It's a good, concise interface. Still not a fan of horizontal scrolling, though. I probably won't ever get used to that. :) But then I'm one of those weirdos who has a portrait-mode secondary monitor set up. (I'm the author of TwitGrid.)