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I have just joined Twitter and when I follow people, I get all their tweets in my timeline. I have been to other people's pages and I can see only what they have tweeted in their timeline but they are following people.

Why aren't their follower's tweets in their timeline? (Some have got thousands of followers.) I can't keep up!

So, how are they doing it?

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There are a lot of questions here. Welcome to the WebApps Stack Exchange. We love to see your questions here, but if you could limit each post to one question that will make answering your question(s) a lot easier and more accurate. – Dez Oct 19 '12 at 4:12
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more often than not, you end up missing lots of tweets. For that reason I have a private list consisting of people who I want to read all of their tweets. – Sathya Oct 19 '12 at 10:39

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Sounds like you're a new user to Twitter. There is a great page called Twitter Basics within Twitter's Help section of their site. Start at the top.

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I can't keep up :-(

A little off-topic but this is a really interesting area. People seem to approach it in various methods. Some keep their following list small enough to keep track of everything, others just dip in and out of a much larger stream. The nature of the retweet should mean that the most important/interesting things tend to make it to the surface.

On a geekier extended reading note, Dunbar's Number is a fascinating concept linked to this. And a far more hardcore (in math terms..) read on how this may also apply to Twitter networks here.

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