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List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by dvtrn »

bluetidepro wrote: post #8
Fenrisulfr wrote: post #4

Awesome, added it to my twitter. After refreshing, I wish there was a way to remove "Promoted" tweets still.

For promoted, you'll need to use like a browser extension or something 3rd party to remove those. I would be VERY surprised if they gave native ways like this to mute the main income source of their platform (promoted tweets/ads). haha

They have the "See this less often" option if you click the options chevron within the promoted content. I'm convinced it's a placebo feature but...that's just me.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by bluetidepro »

dvtrn wrote: post #14
bluetidepro wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For promoted, you'll need to use like a browser extension or something 3rd party to remove those. I would be VERY surprised if they gave native ways like this to mute the main income source of their platform (promoted tweets/ads). haha

They have the "See this less often" option if you click the options chevron within the promoted content. I'm convinced it's a placebo feature but...that's just me.

Yeah, that (placebo), or it could mean "see this less often" of this TYPE of ad. So more about the content than the actual ad. Again, I highly doubt they are just going to let users use the platform without any ads.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by pzumk »

thrower123 wrote: post #9
Fenrisulfr wrote: post #4

Awesome, added it to my twitter. After refreshing, I wish there was a way to remove "Promoted" tweets still.

Block the accounts as they come, and you stop seeing any of them. In my experience, the vast majority are time-limited movie accounts.

This doesn’t work. I have blocked over 26k accounts and I still see ads. I don’t have blocked Apple or DuckDuckGo and most of the time I see those, but every single day I’m blocking more and more sponsored accounts because they keep appearing. You can’t block all of them.

Here’s my Block List. Not sure why it didn’t update for two months, maybe it doesn’t work anymore:

https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/BrCdgyZpXmLQ25akOwtgfR...

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by zbuttram »

dvtrn wrote: post #14
bluetidepro wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For promoted, you'll need to use like a browser extension or something 3rd party to remove those. I would be VERY surprised if they gave native ways like this to mute the main income source of their platform (promoted tweets/ads). haha

They have the "See this less often" option if you click the options chevron within the promoted content. I'm convinced it's a placebo feature but...that's just me.

My assumption is that is only for the particular ad or company and that they will just show you ads from other places instead. More of a way to nudge the system into showing you more "relevant" promoted tweets than actually removing them.
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