Twitter’s temporary follow feature

Buzzfeed:

Twitter is built on a follow model, which is great for some use cases, but also means you’re going to miss a lot of great stuff from people you don’t follow. Unless you followed certain Democratic lawmakers, you likely missed lots of action from the House floor during the sit-in this week. But there’s a solution to that: A Twitter that temporarily inserts relevant tweets from the right people at the right moment into your timeline would be a much more useful Twitter. Amazingly, this Twitter already exists but is buried puzzlingly deep within the platform’s user interface.

This is, indeed, an obscure feature. It’s buried in the Moments tab and not presented consistently. I think Moments has potential, but it is not tunable in any meaningful way, which makes it pretty much useless for me. Twitter, how about exposing some settings here so I can pick events I want to follow, turn them on and off, somehow customize the way Moments is folded into my main stream. As is, Moments is only exposed if you go to it and (as far as I know) only in the main Twitter app.