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List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
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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.
That's definitely correct^. In addition, I expect that this feature is intentional, as most requests will use well-typed thrift structs or graphql to perform backend requests (I think) and I would be surprised if the mute word filters were ever applied accidentally.
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I don't think this will block adds, based on the keywords. I would love to block all twitter commercial adverts. Presently I block them on sight and now get only adverts from small companies.
Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
Had no idea about this. Is it well known?
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#164I actually enjoy these "retweeted by xxx", "xxx liked this" and other suggestions options. That's how I discover other people (mainly artists) on Twitter.
Also I don't stay on Twitter all the time, so a curated timeline is more useful than a chronological one (yes, I'm going to miss some tweets, but I will miss some anyway even if I use the reverse chronological order because I won't scroll down that far.)
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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.
Those pro union messages were informing employees of their rights, and part of the dev's responsibilities were informing employees of their rights. Wasn't the message also only shown on relevant pages?
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#166I actually enjoy these "retweeted by xxx", "xxx liked this" and other suggestions options. That's how I discover other people (mainly artists) on Twitter. Also I don't stay on Twitter all the time, so a curated timeline is more useful than a chronological one (yes, I'm going to miss some tweets, but I will miss some anyway even if I use the reverse chronological order because I won't scroll down that far.)
I also like the algo-curated feed of Twitter.
My only complaint is the autorefresh. Sometimes I'm reading something and boom the feed is refreshed and I have to scroll down to find the thing I was interested in. This has also happened when I was about to click on something. so annoying.
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#167Earlier 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.
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.
Part of the justification for firing was that they did an emergency push so that they could push without a code review.
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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 becaus…
That is by design. Serves somebody's interests, just not yours.
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#169I actually enjoy these "retweeted by xxx", "xxx liked this" and other suggestions options. That's how I discover other people (mainly artists) on Twitter. Also I don't stay on Twitter all the time, so a curated timeline is more useful than a chronological one (yes, I'm going to miss some tweets, but I will miss some anyway even if I use the reverse chronological order because I won't scroll down that far.)
I don’t mind the reordered list, specially if I’ve been away for a while, but the density of suggestions is ridiculous. I’ve seen stretches of twenty tweets in my TL where not one of them was an actual public tweet by somebody I follow.
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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.
It's at least a few weeks before it reverts for me.