- 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.
Every time Twitter comes up on HN people complain about missing reverse chronological order and hating on the liked by tweets feature. The old classic mode is one click away. Or am I in a weird long running A/B testing group still having access to this feature? I know the default mode is not what most people here like but is it really that hard to switch the display mode?
It's not hard at all, it's just not permanent. After about 3-4 days twitter "helpfully" sets one back to the order they want you to see.
- 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.
Every time Twitter comes up on HN people complain about missing reverse chronological order and hating on the liked by tweets feature. The old classic mode is one click away. Or am I in a weird long running A/B testing group still having access to this feature? I know the default mode is not what most people here like but is it really that hard to switch the display mode?
Twitter regularly switches you back to garbage mode without telling you, and you have to mute all the words in this submission to make classic mode work. muting all these words does nothing if you are in garbage mode.
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.
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.
you’d be surprised. it’s usually just the approval of one other engineer. and sometimes you can even force push
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 mom…
Same story, but wasn't this just a trending post? Like it popped up for you long before it had 200k+ likes? I remember seeing it and nobody I know follow it but I don't recall thinking anything of it (I also thought it was Bernies account). I barely know how to use twitter in all honesty. I'm worried I'm liking too many things and shoving stuff in peoples faces. That's a big turn off on me using social apps.
Yeah, it popped up for me as it was rising (I couldn't tell you how many likes it had). I thought "wow, I didn't expect Bernie to address this issue in that way." Then I saw the username, felt a little duped but hey, this is the web, I'm used to it. Then I felt very duped when I realized that nobody I followed had followed the account, let alone liked or retweeted it. It wasn't Promoted. It ended up on my feed because it was popular and related to my interests, I guess? What made me feel uneasy was that I follow the real Bernie Sanders, and a website showed me something that I legitimately thought he had said for a moment, and I didn't even set myself up to be in that position.
- 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.
You just click "show more tweets" when it gets to the end of the new tweet feed and it loads the next chunk.
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.
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.
Google just fired a dev who pushed in some pro union messages into a security tool. All it takes is a rubber stamp from another engineer.
> Hi Ian, muting these keywords won't actually change the number of suggested Tweets in your timeline. We are exploring ways to improve suggestions to allow you to further customize your timeline. More to come!
I wish there was a way to block all tweets from profiles that list their preferred gender. It should stop the vast majority of gender politics bickering. Nearly every tweet that makes me cringe, riled up, or shake my head, shows these preferred pronouns after a quick hover.