There are two challenges with this - first, following people who focus on one thing, and second, focusing on one thing yourself.
When people tweet about a professional interest like code, and their other interests, and family things, and random fun stuff, your timeline gets noisy. Likewise, if you follow people because you like code, and more people for your other interests, and you follow your friends, and fun stuff, then it gets really noisy too.
I follow a lot of people for frontend dev things, but also some more people for wildlife photography, and local Northeast UK tech scene stuff. I had to cut down from following about 1000 people at peak to 300 because I couldn't keep up at all.
If you can focus who you follow and what you use Twitter for then it's good, but for most people who have multiple interests it's not. Lists help a lot, but you need discipline to use them well.
When people tweet about a professional interest like code, and their other interests, and family things, and random fun stuff, your timeline gets noisy. Likewise, if you follow people because you like code, and more people for your other interests, and you follow your friends, and fun stuff, then it gets really noisy too.
I follow a lot of people for frontend dev things, but also some more people for wildlife photography, and local Northeast UK tech scene stuff. I had to cut down from following about 1000 people at peak to 300 because I couldn't keep up at all.
If you can focus who you follow and what you use Twitter for then it's good, but for most people who have multiple interests it's not. Lists help a lot, but you need discipline to use them well.