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Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by ycombinete »

flotzam wrote: post #71
alkonaut wrote: post #38

There are two reasonable ways of using twitter 1) on a third party client like Tweetbot which just shows exactly the tweets of those you follow, in order, and nothing else. Nothing promoted, no ads, no trending keywords 2) Not at all I have no idea why anyone would want to use the official Twitter app or the twitter dot com web site. Once you have used a third party client (which behaves like the original Twitter!) y…

> Granted, you need an account to use a third party client You don't: https://fritter.cc ("A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices")

That sounds perfect, do you know of one that works on iOS?

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by rpdillon »

TekMol wrote: post #15

I think this is one reason why "web3", social media with a decentralized storage layer, could become a thing. As a user, when I tweet something, I do want the whole world to be able to read it. Without logging in. Ideally via the interface of their choice. Orbis is a proof of concept: https://orbis.club/ A Twitter clone that stores the tweets on Arweave.

I recently ran across twtxt[0], which appears to be fully distributed, in the same way .plan files were.

[0]: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by newbamboo »

danuker wrote: post #106
leephillips wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> In addition, the tweets will appear in chronological order, with no interpolated advertising nor any other junk, unlike in your timeline. This is just another step in the rat-race that is fighting the platform itself. It merely prolongs the period before inevitable monetization and signal decay.

And the house always wins.

There is no self-respecting, intelligent way to use Twitter.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by 0des »

Eventually you must produce income in earnest, which is something twitter has been avoiding as it provides and intimate look into their ability to do so. When you're a startup its okay to be "pre revenue", because once you separate entirely from the VC teat and make a sincere effort to subsist you're forced to sink or swim on your own instincts and that doesn't always pan out and the music stops. These are things that influence KPI data points to bolster or justify a value of twitter itself both to potential suitors but also to investors.

Expect an acquisition soon, or transition of management and ownership structure

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

alkonaut wrote: post #38

There are two reasonable ways of using twitter 1) on a third party client like Tweetbot which just shows exactly the tweets of those you follow, in order, and nothing else. Nothing promoted, no ads, no trending keywords 2) Not at all I have no idea why anyone would want to use the official Twitter app or the twitter dot com web site. Once you have used a third party client (which behaves like the original Twitter!) y…

thank you for the tweetbot tip -

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by 3pt14159 »

captainmuon wrote: post #134
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 fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. For me, that is actually one of the biggest annoyances with twitter. People who threaten to unfollow me or to block me if I follow or give a like to somebody who they don't like. Granted, it's not a practical problem yet because I only have very few followers, but it still annoys me. On…

I understand you feel that way, but unfortunately the political spectrum has gotten too large and too dumb for me to tolerate it any more. I'm a centre leftist who thinks for himself and comes to right wing conclusions here and there. But when a non-trival number of people hold such obviously hostile or ill thought out opinions I'm going to filter them away. Twitter should let people have their likes as likes instead of making them a soft retweet based on data science, or at least let us mute it on a case-by-case basis.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by cinntaile »

0des wrote: post #145

Eventually you must produce income in earnest, which is something twitter has been avoiding as it provides and intimate look into their ability to do so. When you're a startup its okay to be "pre revenue", because once you separate entirely from the VC teat and make a sincere effort to subsist you're forced to sink or swim on your own instincts and that doesn't always pan out and the music stops. These are things tha…

Twitter has been on the stock market since 2014?

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by lariati »

3pt14159 wrote: post #147
captainmuon wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. For me, that is actually one of the biggest annoyances with twitter. People who threaten to unfollow me or to block me if I follow or give a like to somebody who they don't like. Granted, it's not a practical problem yet because I only have very few followers, but it still annoys me. On…

I understand you feel that way, but unfortunately the political spectrum has gotten too large and too dumb for me to tolerate it any more. I'm a centre leftist who thinks for himself and comes to right wing conclusions here and there. But when a non-trival number of people hold such obviously hostile or ill thought out opinions I'm going to filter them away. Twitter should let people have their likes as likes instead…

For me it is even more than this. I don't care about people's politics on literally any level. I don't hold strong beliefs either way on anything.

If I want to think about politics I will read an old political science book.

There isn't even any discussion of politics on twitter anyway. It is a weird type of recreational negative infotainment.

I really want to make a profile that I don't delete in a few days but it is impossible. The platform is basically unusable unless one thinks starting the day off with a flood of negativity is a good idea.

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