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Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by mayneack »

pzumk wrote: post #17
thrower123 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/BrCdgyZpXm…

They come back, but it's significantly lower volume than without the block. I recently made a new account and was surprised by the volume.

Mine is 100% (I think) from blocking ads, if you want a second source: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...

(it's also updated 2 days ago)

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by baddox »

CathedralBorrow wrote: post #19
baddox wrote: post #10

Also: a list of mute words for Twitter to ignore when they see this!

I think they might have seen this when they implemented this feature in their software.

Perhaps, although I'm not so sure. The muting feature as documented is clearly intended to apply to the actual content of tweets. The keywords in this list clearly seem to be things that would appear in, say, a JSON representation of a tweet, but wouldn't be part of the actual textual content of a tweet. Of course it's possible that they deliberately implemented this as an undocumented power user feature.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by dvtrn »

bluetidepro wrote: post #15
dvtrn wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's the more probable reality, yup. It's just signalling to me maybe it's time finally just bow out and get off this platform once and for all.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by lildoggo »

Fenrisulfr wrote: post #4

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

I wrote something very similar for reddit a while back using an extension called Tampermonkey. Reddit uses the same CSS classes on all their promoted content so if twitter does this same this could work.

Basically, you make an eventlistener on the scroll wheel and do document.getElementsByClassName('promoted-css-class-name'). Loop over the array of elements found and set the element style to 'display:none' for every element found every time you scroll.

Not the most efficient approach, but effective!

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by dvtrn »

baddox wrote: post #22
CathedralBorrow wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they might have seen this when they implemented this feature in their software.

Perhaps, although I'm not so sure. The muting feature as documented is clearly intended to apply to the actual content of tweets. The keywords in this list clearly seem to be things that would appear in, say, a JSON representation of a tweet, but wouldn't be part of the actual textual content of a tweet. Of course it's possible that they deliberately implemented this as an undocumented power user feature.

I think you're right. As an example, I have the word/name of a certain political figure 'muted', however will continue to see tweets involving that figure if a friend retweets a tweet that has an embedded 'card' linking to a news article featuring said political figure.

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Post by fernandotakai »

maxaf wrote: post #12

For optimal effect, add the following to your /etc/hosts or its equivalent on your system: 127.0.0.1 twitter.com

i... don't agree there.

twitter is what you make of it. if you follow toxic people, you will get a toxic timeline.

me? i follow close friends, a bunch of economists from all sides (mostly from my own country) and some comedians. that's it. my timeline is super clean, i open every once in a while and it's never bad.

(side note: i met both of my best friends on twitter. oh and i also met my wife on twitter. it's not a bad platform as long as you can curate what you see).

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by izzydata »

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.

You'll get less of that ad and more of another ad.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by mayneack »

Fenrisulfr wrote: post #4

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

Blocking significantly reduces the numbers, but they come back over time: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...
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