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Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by munk-a »

hiccuphippo wrote: post #76
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.

Sounds like a feature. If it is important you shouldn't rely on twitter to find about it anyway.

I dunno, it's a tool, you can use it how you'd like to use it.

Twitter is kinda weird in that there are some blindly obvious UX improvements everyone is aware of that Twitter refrains from because the poor UX is subsidizing their business model.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by rconti »

fernandotakai wrote: post #26
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…

I don't know how you managed that. I don't follow "toxic people" but Twitter just doesn't work. The use case for Twitter seems to be to follow important thinkers in areas you care about, so I get to hear what a renowned scientist had for lunch, an out-of-context reply from a computer security researcher said to someone else I don't know about something I don't understand, and that an F1 star took his family to the zoo.

Maybe I'm just the wrong audience for twitter. Facebook, as problematic as it is, has people I actually know, with their real names, and their real pictures, and their real life.

The nature of an "open" platform like Twitter seems to be specifically for people who want to hear from people they don't know, and unfortunately the content from those public figures is almost never about the thing you actually follow them for, because, guess what, people are multi-faceted.

Add to that the outrage-driven like/RT algo and I think it's toxic by default.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by joombaga »

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??

Maybe that signal is only acknowledged if you turn ad personalization on.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by thinkmassive »

bluetidepro wrote: post #5

I would love to see this list updated with example screenshots of what each one actually mutes. Either way, I had no idea Twitter muting worked like this, where you could actually mute TYPES of tweets, and not just content IN the tweets. I don't think they go over this in their docs: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m... - I wonder if they will block this or break this if it picks up steam s…

There's a bit more detail in this article from last August that describes the same thing: https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/01/muting-the-twitter-algorith...

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by frandroid »

josefresco wrote: post #70
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.

Lists are a pain to access IMHO on purpose although they've improved it slightly. Open App Press on avatar Press Lists Press desired list. vs. Open app Now on desktop, using bookmarks, or a client like TweetDeck this is a valid solution.

Yeah, I would love to be able to have a list shortcut on my phone's homescreen.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by shawnz »

gonehome wrote: post #31
bluetidepro wrote: post #5

I would love to see this list updated with example screenshots of what each one actually mutes. Either way, I had no idea Twitter muting worked like this, where you could actually mute TYPES of tweets, and not just content IN the tweets. I don't think they go over this in their docs: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m... - I wonder if they will block this or break this if it picks up steam s…

Yeah it looks like something that accidentally works because of their implementation rather than something they actually want to be possible.

Maybe it's a "backdoor" added by some lower level devs who don't have access to the official controls for hiding the spam for themselves.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by brandur »

josefresco wrote: post #70
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.

Lists are a pain to access IMHO on purpose although they've improved it slightly. Open App Press on avatar Press Lists Press desired list. vs. Open app Now on desktop, using bookmarks, or a client like TweetDeck this is a valid solution.

This has improved quite a bit on recent versions of the official mobile clients. If you go to your lists, you can "pin" a list, which has the effect of making it an alternate timeline from the app's home screen.

It's a little subtle, but on home you'll now have "Home" and your list's name at the top of the screen, with the active one getting a blue underline. Swipe left or right to select one or the other.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by danso »

richk449 wrote: post #87
Simon_says wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tweet…

I don't think the emergency radio analogy makes much sense since Twitter's value is more than just reading tweets. It can be used for initiating and participating in discussions.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by richk449 »

danso wrote: post #99
richk449 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tweet…

I don't think the emergency radio analogy makes much sense since Twitter's value is more than just reading tweets. It can be used for initiating and participating in discussions.

Fair point. Maybe radio in general is a better model. Some people use it to have conversations with friends, and some people use it to listen to the emergency channel.

It still means that cutting it out of your life won’t doom you to missing important information.

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