Is there any way to deduplicate tweets? Some accounts seem to have the same tweets scheduled over and over again.
Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
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Re: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
#112Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers. I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" che…
I do feel like I get value from politics Twitter, but sometimes I'm just not in the mood, and really wish I could filter it down to scicomm twitter easily.
Re: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
#113Maybe it's naturally limited from it's format and doesn't need to grow more.
- I like the website for quick feed and "real time" data - I wished the logic was thinner, it's still a heavy site in a way - maybe a 3 real columns UX would make the thing blossom
Re: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
#114Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers. I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" che…
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Re: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
#115Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers. I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" che…
Best knowledge-exchange platform for tech-people I've seen so far. With some careful selection of who to follow it even has an ok signal-to-noise ratio. Every single feature Twitter has implemented in the past few years made it worse for this type of audience though.
Agreed with this. There are too many individual sites to keep up with things, twitter makes that easier.
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#116Twitter should just focus 100% on real time news. That's the only time I've ever seen anything valuable come from it. If a major site is down, it's generally on there instantly. If some event just happened in the world, it's on there instantly.
All this other nonsense, interacting with celebrities, businesses, or coding "rockstars" is just noise.
Overhaul the horrendous UI, focus on world news ONLY.
Re: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
#117Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers. I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" che…
Use "Muted words" - you'll find it under Settings. Add Trump, Republican, etc. :)
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I last tried to sign up, they requested a phone number, I assume as some sort of an attempt to make it harder for spammers to sign up. I don't think they have any legitimate reason for that sort of information, so I didn't provide it. I don't remember the specifics, but either I couldn't finish creating the account, or it was created and then automatically locked/suspended a few minutes later. The end result was…
> There's no reason for their signup process to need anything more than a username and a password. They don't need my email address. They do (and any service basically). You don't want to run a large-scale service without having some way for your users to self-reset their passwords. > They surely don't need my phone number or any other information about me. That requirement is recent and I believe comes from law enfo…
> They do (and any service basically). You don't want to run a large-scale service without having some way for your users to self-reset their passwords.
I don't buy that. There are other similar services that allow an email address to optionally be provided later, for password-resetting purposes. I believe reddit is like that, as is this site.
This site gives me a "Please put a valid address in the email field, or we won't be able to send you a new password if you forget yours." message when I view my preferences, for example.
I don't buy your phone number claim, either. There are many other services out there, including ones that very likely have a presence in a country like Germany, that support user-posted content but that don't require a phone number to sign up.
Re: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
#119Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers. I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" che…
For me it's basically an RSS feed with comments. Very valuable for learning about and keeping up to date with narrow industry news/trends.
Also a good way to connect with people professionally, but less formally than LinkedIn.
The major downside is that is that a tight group or individual can get put on blast to the whole of twitter, and then just get ignorant vitriol thrown at them and that kind of ruins the whole experience. Happened to me not long ago. Not that big of a deal in the end. Just take a week off and come back and the hive will have found something else to attack. The Twitter universe has a pretty short attention span - even if it has a long memory.
Re: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
#120Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers. I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" che…
I'm @codemonkeyism on Twitter https://twitter.com/codemonkeyism
and still love it.
I think it's key to always prune and trim the people you are following and keep the number low and relevant. If someone tweets several times about things I'm not interested in, I unfollow.
I unfollowed some high profile tech people because of their stream being full of politics.
"(Current count is 1000)"
This seems much too high, I follow 500 and this already looks too high for me (some trimming needed).