TLDR: You follow 40 people, but the people who post infrequently tend to get their posts flooded off the TL by high-volume accounts such as me (mcc) asking cursed C# questions at odd hours. Wouldn't it be cool if you could get the best elements of a sort-by-last-post view and a sort-by-account view in a single screen? (See screenshots at link.)
@mcc yeah, but the SMS thingy was bound to shut down eventually. 140 characters and no features at all... I could write a shoutbox like that in 20 minutes in PHP4!