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Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by reificator »

cpeterso wrote: post #53

I've noticed that muted words don't mute ads. I've muted words like "blockchain", "bitcoin", and "Ethereum" and yet I still see ads for blockchain startups. Shouldn't the fact that I went out of my way to mute a word be a strong signal that I am not a good match for an ad??

> Shouldn't the fact that I went out of my way to mute a word be a strong signal that I am not a good match for an ad?

That's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is as a strong signal that you're not already invested in a competing service so acquisition should be much cheaper.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by penagwin »

Simon_says wrote: post #74
Grue3 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.

LOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.

Then this entire thread is irrelevant to you. Why are you here?

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by DonHopkins »

davvolun wrote: post #64
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

This joke never adds anything to the conversation, I wish people would stop making it.

Keith Henson explained a great joke about the local loopback address 127.0.0.1 under oath to the Church of Scientology lawyers in a sworn deposition once.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by skyyler »

Simon_says wrote: post #74
Grue3 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.

LOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.

This is ostrich behaviour.

"La la la, I can't hear you, you're not saying anything important"

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by siegecraft »

ilikehurdles wrote: post #66

I don't use twitter and I don't really know what this is, but it's at the top of the hn. I mean, I obviously know what twitter is and have read tweets, but otherwise this is kind of foreign. Can someone explain what these are used for?

Twitter (unintentionally, I'm sure) built an adblocker into their app

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by hiccuphippo »

lildoggo wrote: post #24
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…

Oh, adding the event listener to the scroll is very clever. I was trying to do it "right" and using a MutationObserver to find when they added nodes to the document but this gets too convoluted fast.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by richk449 »

Simon_says wrote: post #74
Grue3 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.

LOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.

Seems perfectly reasonable. Here are some reasons:

1. The fraction of people on the world on Twitter is very small. Either most people in the world are missing important information, or not being on Twitter doesn’t cause one to miss important information.

2. If something important does occur on Twitter, it will be repeated on other news sources. It seems like half the news stories these days are just a bunch of tweets surrounded by boilerplate.

I think that listening to emergency radio is a good model for Twitter. It might provide you with information earlier than relying on conventional sources, and it might provide you with more blips of information, but not all of that information is necessarily correct, and you will spend a lot of time and not gain much of value over traditional sources.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by hesk »

WA wrote: post #35

- create a private list - instead of following people, add people to the list Bam. No ads, no suggestions, no "x liked this", reverse chronological order with no missing posts.

Unfortunately, you cannot turn off retweets in lists, at least on the Twitter website or iOS app. I disable retweets for most of the people I follow. Fortunately, in Tweetdeck you can filter retweets for each list individually.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by raphael_l »

jakub_g wrote: post #59
swanson wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it removes all of the random "liked by someone you follow" or "popular in your network" etc tweets that slowly creep in over time.

Yesterday Twitter started showing me "someone you don't follow replied to another person you don't follow" types of conversations and it's gotten really absurd at this point.

This happened to me yesterday as well, only it was "liked" instead of "replied". In my confusion I clicked on the account, since I didn't recognize it. Only to mistakenly click the Follow button, as my brain didn't manage to correctly derive the current status of it. Because I actually thought I had accidentally followed them or something similar.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by hesk »

ehsankia wrote: post #77
ilikehurdles wrote: post #66

I don't use twitter and I don't really know what this is, but it's at the top of the hn. I mean, I obviously know what twitter is and have read tweets, but otherwise this is kind of foreign. Can someone explain what these are used for?

As Twitter grows, they stray further and further from just showing you tweets from people you follow, and start showing all sorts of other crap you didn't ask for in your feed, such as "person X liked this tweet" or "here's a tweet from someone you may like", and so on. There is no "official" way to disable these annoying entries in your feed, but over time people have found secret "tags" that if you put in your mute…

The official way is to switch from Home to Latest Tweets. It works quite well, actually.
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