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Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by 0des »

cinntaile wrote: post #148
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?

My mistake, I meant 'acquisition' but was watching the news and typed the word I was reading on screen which was IPO. I've since corrected the comment.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

irthomasthomas wrote: post #153

I thought twitter was OK as a link sharing site. But the idea that people would try and fit their entire message in to a a few words was just crazy to me. Literraly limiting the ideas you can communicate to those which fit in to a sentence or two.

Ironically, your post fits fine in a tweet.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by shawncampbell »

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 recently learned that much of the unwanted "suggested" tweet noise can be mitigated by muting the following terms:

suggest_recycled_tweet_inline suggest_activity_tweet suggest_who_to_follow suggest_recap suggest_recycled_tweet suggest_pyle_tweet suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet

source: https://twitter.com/stillnotsam/status/1490169409024892928?s...

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by runjake »

leephillips wrote: post #98
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/

If you are going to do it "that way", then don't elect to participate in the TweetDeck Preview, because that nerfs Twitter in pretty much the same manner you are escaping.

It is a losing battle fighting for Twitter against... Twitter.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by sprkwd »

yung_steezy wrote: post #92

I switched from twitter to Mastodon recently. It isn't a perfect replacement since the network effect keeps user counts low but I've found it generally scratches the same itch.

I've found the level of connection between people is stronger on Mastodon. YMMV

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by ahonhn »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #154
irthomasthomas wrote: post #153

I thought twitter was OK as a link sharing site. But the idea that people would try and fit their entire message in to a a few words was just crazy to me. Literraly limiting the ideas you can communicate to those which fit in to a sentence or two.

Ironically, your post fits fine in a tweet.

bah! you kids and your oversized 280 character tweets! I'm old enough to remember when tweets were 140 characters and we had to push them uphill both ways, but we liked it like that. This generation has it too easy.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by dcchambers »

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…

Anecdotally, I've found that in virtually every social media platform I have used, if I actually make use of the feed preferences like "unsubscribe," "show me less of this," "this doesn't interest me," etc, I agree that eventually I just get flooded with useless content as their algorithms desperately try to find some new fresh content to put in front of my eyes. As a result, the overall quality goes way down and I spend less and less time looking at it. The completely opposite reaction that they were hoping for.

Social Media Companies: It's OK to not have any new content to show me every few seconds. It's OK if I see the same things for a while until new, meaningful content comes my way. Shoving content I don't want down my throat just makes me want to leave altogether.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by HWR_14 »

Regarding the official government communications/ court order, that was about the politicians, not Twitter. That is, if the politician was using it for official business, they couldn't block people on Twitter. It in no way obligated twitter to host the content. They wanted to, for business reasons. But they could shut down tomorrow (or kick off every elected official and government agency) and be within their legal rights.

Except for the shareholder lawsuit of course.

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