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... to which Twitter Support says: > 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! https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/122087242860531712...
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Had no idea about this. Is it well known?
Can't decide if you are being sarcastic or not. But I'll reply assuming its a serious question. Tweetdeck was created by a third-party developer in 2008. It was and is so popular that Twitter acquired it in 2011 for £25 million. And then Twitter started slowly shutting down its apps, all the mobile versions of Tweetdeck (Desktop, iOS and Android) were suspended and removed from respective app stores. Only keeping the…
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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?
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The tone of this conversation is wrong on so many levels Lower level can equally mean 'direct access' or 'service level' it doesn't have to be a corporate hierarchy thing
Now I have worked at any FANG company, or even larger than 200+ employees, but I've never heard "lower level dev" to mean they have "low level access". Is this a common label to give people who have access to production database for example?
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Just so others don't have to discover this: even if you block Threadreader, they will still harvest your tweets. You have to do "@ThreadReaderApp BLOCK ME".
Why would you do that? Why do people have an issue with Threadreader? A portion of Twitter users seems to really like it. So why not let them read your tweet storms that way?
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Same for web and iOS. To my amazement, not only is this something that Twitter did on purpose (3 times, once for each client), but their designers have defended it vigorously. Because metrics obviously are more important than users saying what they want.
This is one of the reasons I jailbreak my iPhone =p https://repo.packix.com/package/com.alwayslatesttimelinetwit...
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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.
I mean for all we know this was built in semi-intentionally by a team of engineers who quietly recognized this effect of their implementation.
honestly i dont know why more people dont use tweetdeck. i have my timeline, it's not controlled by an algorithm, it's always chronological, i'm not constantly being suggested stuff, i can split out topics into columns that i'm interested in, i can filter the columns to show exactly what i want. also can i suggest that filter:follows is super useful if you want to search a term exclusively among your follow list.
Because most people use Twitter on their mobile. How is their mobile web browser app?
I would say as a heavy Twitter user my needs are probably not typical, but imo tweetdeck with its live updating columns is the true nature of the firehose that Twitter is, and I love it.
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So why is it almost every-time I here it mentioned in regards to this topic it is by those who act pious and pompous as a way of shutting down legitimate criticism?
If you’re referring to my use of “toxicity” I definitely don’t mean that. In fact I support the crazier subreddits (you know which I mean). And I agree it gets way overused by many. And maybe toxicity is a stretch for reddit front page but I think you still know what I’m talking about: the shallow, mindless/hivemind garbage. It brings down everything and everyone else to primal attitudes and people go straight for th…
> And I agree it gets way overused by many.
It isn't just overused. The language itself and other terms and phrases that usually accompanies it gets used as a stick to beat legitimate criticism. By using their language which redefines what is commonly meant you are promoting such an ideology.
I 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.)
Now of course, I'm not special, I shouldn't expect it WOULD be aligned with what I consider good curation. But I can't imagine the choices they ARE making are anywhere near the mean users preference. So lots of people reject that curation and choose to curate for themselves as if it was an RSS feed.
But I think the thing that these people (and I count myself among them) really want is for companies like twitter and youtube to let us make our own choices about curation.
"I really like this person and want to see everything they release."
"I like this persons tastes and want their feed added to mine"
"This person isn't that interesting, just show me stuff they make that gets popular"
"I only want to see tweets from this person about certain subjects. I don't care about their views on woodworking."
ect.