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Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by encryptluks2 »

gnfargbl wrote: post #48
pjc50 wrote: post #14

> I thought courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media [citation needed] Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though. They've hit a growth plateau, the users are really fractious, management doesn't understand what they want out of it, and it's the venue for social strife.

> [citation needed] The poster you replied to may have been thinking of US court decisions related to the legality of politicians blocking members of the public, when those politicians are speaking in their official capacity [1][2]. That doesn't quite seem to be the same thing as "the public has a right to access official government communications on social media". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_First_Amend…

Yes I was but the way that I interpreted the ruling was that thr public has the right to access official government communications from social media.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by jks »

latexr wrote: post #83
3pt14159 wrote: post #79

I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…

Consider a third-party client. You’ll get a chronological view of tweets from people you follow, without ads. You do lose access to a few extras (like polls), but the tradeoff might be worth it to you.

Or don't follow anyone (or follow your friends if they think it's a nice social signal). Put all the interesting people in lists and view the lists in https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ instead of the usual UI.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by 0xmohit »

samwillis wrote: post #6

I assume new CEO, new strategy. Twitters profitability has always been a contentious issue, they launched their first subscription service (Twitter Blue) last year. My assumption is that they are potentially trying to move towards a more subscription based revenue model. The push back against ads is only going to get stronger and maybe they are trying to get ahead of the curve. On top of that with GDPR and all the in…

.. more registration, and more active users.

No wonder there are frequent emails from Twitter with the subject "... don't be shy" and "... we miss you".

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by midrus »

I loved Twitter when it was about reading tweets and retweets from people I followed. I don't follow many people/companies, just around 30 or so in total, most of them are either people I know in person or popular companies or products.

Nowadays my feed is a total mess of ads, things somebody liked, things some others follow, uninteresting recommendations, random topics and a lot of bullshit I don't care and are just noise to me.

I already deleted facebook several years ago and not missing it any single bit. I think my twitter account is following the same destiny pretty soon.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by crims0n »

3pt14159 wrote: post #79

I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…

I really hate what is happening to infosec/cybersecurity. There is this huge push to get anyone and everyone into the field due to the talent shortage, and now it is near impossible to find a signal in all of the noise that is marketing, hot takes, politics, "career building", and memes. Twitter is especially terrible.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by hs86 »

They also changed how it loads new tweets for logged-in users. Now it shows something like "Show 36 Tweets" and jumps back to the top of the timeline by clicking on it.

They crippled Twitter on the web with these changes because going back to the old position on my timeline has become too tedious. Consequently, I spent less time on Twitter.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by leephillips »

3pt14159 wrote: post #79

I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…

Your problem is that you are looking at your feed. Do it this way: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by RobertLoblaw »

blueflow wrote: post #16
greenyoda wrote: post #7

The "uBlock Origin" browser extension blocks Twitter's login prompt and enables you to read posts without logging in.

The default rules don't do it for me. Does it need some custom rules?

This filter fixes the login wall. I don't expect it to work forever, but it works perfectly for now: twitter.com##+js(cookie-remover, guest_id)

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by ransom1538 »

I know someone that is high up there. Basically, twitter has struggled to get their ad cost per impression as high as FB or Google. They have ad placement volume but they are not worth anything due to the fact people are signed out. Google does ok with logged out users since the user is searching for something - and ads can be related to that. To make the real money twitter needs age,sex,geo on every impression. Twitter has learned there isn't much point serving pages where they can't monetize it.
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