Walk a mile in someone else’s feed.
Here's something you might not have known about Twitter: You can open, and experience, any other public users' timelines. You can get inside their feeds.
If you're a Tweetdeck user, all you need to know is the desired user's handle. In roughly 30 seconds you'll have full access to someone else's primary feed and all the voyeuristic pleasures that come with it.
There are practical reasons to walk a mile or two in someone else's feed — it was, for example, an invaluable tool for me while rebuilding my Twitter feed — but it's also a great way to do some good old-fashioned snooping without actually invading someone's privacy.
If you use Twitter a lot, it becomes your primary internet vantage point — the filter through which you see the world, online. So we loaded up a few notable feeds — celebrities, media people, tech people, a popular bot — to try to see what they see.
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