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> they did exactly what you were asking for

No, MySpace and Facebook didn't what I was asking for because they didn't have any feed then.

With MySpace and Facebook in its early days, I could just stalk profiles and both didn't serve me any content based on my interest. On MySpace I could browse through some music genres but this is not my understanding of an interest-driven site.



Twitter has had a feed from the beginning and served you content you wanted, as long as you subscribed to the right people. It still does, as long as you only follow a few people.


The grandparent post was about FB and MySpace, not Twitter.

However, Twitter is a different beast. They got better over time because Twitter evolved from a friends network to kind of a interest-driven network. At the beginning people were following friends and then you had the same dissatisfying outcome like with FB (nobody wants to unfollow a crap-posting friend and muting wasn't available then). But nowadays you rather follow people on Twitter based on interest or because you share the same industry, etc.


> It still does, as long as you only follow a few people

And only if you use a third party client.


That's what Myspace bulletins were. Your friends posted a bulletin, and you saw it. End of story.

Likewise with Facebook when they first introduced the newsfeed. It was literally just a feed of recent activity as far as I remember.




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