Worked fine BUT still seeing "X liked" or "Y retweeted". Any suggestions to get rid of those would be awesome.
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
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#112I 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 most egregious example of this that I have seen was this tweet, just the other day https://twitter.com/BernieeSanderrs/status/12197474935308328...
I'm not following this account. Nobody I follow is, and nobody I followed interacted with this tweet in any way. Twitter's "reason" for showing it to me was "Bernie Sanders (Parody) received a reply", which is a bizarre justification for adding it to my feed.
For a moment I 100% thought this was a real tweet because I usually look at the user's handle rather than their display name. Anyway, this encounter has made me decide to take a break from Twitter this election season.
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#113Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
#114- 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.
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.
If you are scrolling more than 200 texts you need to break the list into two. Or examine who you are following. If you miss something is it that important?
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#115Earlier 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.
cb radio.
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#116blocking political words works wonders for me too
Yes I considered posting my political term block list but didn't want this threat to devolve into a flame war. I cringe wondering what my timeline would be like without those muted words.
It would certainly be wonderful if we all had the privilege to ignore political instability.
But I can empathize with your cringing. It must be tough.
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#117I'm near the end of my first month without Facebook or Twitter and I'm not missing the stress of it at all.
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#118You can just switch from "Home" to "Latest Tweets" and all of this goes away.
Exactly. In some interfaces you'll be eventually switched back to "Home" automatically. You can tell this has happened because Twitter becomes less awesome. When I find myself thinking, "Why does Twitter suck today?" I scroll up and find that I'm back on "Home".
This is what made me quit Facebook originally.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would would hope that a big service like Twitter has checks and balances in place so no "lower level dev" can add whatever they feel like to the production service.
Your hope isn't compatible with "move fast and break things"
Which is not actually a Twitter policy....
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#120- 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.
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.
and it doesn't update automatically, and it doesn't update when you click the header, and it's just basically a static list of the tweets from the last time you refreshed.