It might be just me but wow, it's really hard to read multiple tweets as a timeline since I don't know where to start and where to end.
“Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself”
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#12Yeah, this has been a pretty obvious change in the recent months/years. I started noticing tweets in my timeline that were there because it was something someone I follow had replied to -- and these tweets were often "outrage-worthy" or otherwise click/flame-bait. I have since written my own Chrome extension to hide all "suggested" tweets of that sort (as well as hiding all sponsored tweets, and the "Favorite" button…
Out of curiosity, why did you hide the favorite button? Couldn't you just not click it?
If you're never going to click it, why have it there when it can be hidden?
Re: “Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself”
#13Yeah, this has been a pretty obvious change in the recent months/years. I started noticing tweets in my timeline that were there because it was something someone I follow had replied to -- and these tweets were often "outrage-worthy" or otherwise click/flame-bait. I have since written my own Chrome extension to hide all "suggested" tweets of that sort (as well as hiding all sponsored tweets, and the "Favorite" button…
Can you share a link to this extension?
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#14Yeah, this has been a pretty obvious change in the recent months/years. I started noticing tweets in my timeline that were there because it was something someone I follow had replied to -- and these tweets were often "outrage-worthy" or otherwise click/flame-bait. I have since written my own Chrome extension to hide all "suggested" tweets of that sort (as well as hiding all sponsored tweets, and the "Favorite" button…
Can you share a link to this extension?
Unfortunately it's just a folder on my computer -- I didn't want to pay the $5 to publish the extension on the Chrome Web Store (plus I speculate that Twitter would ban me if I publish it).
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#15Yeah, this has been a pretty obvious change in the recent months/years. I started noticing tweets in my timeline that were there because it was something someone I follow had replied to -- and these tweets were often "outrage-worthy" or otherwise click/flame-bait. I have since written my own Chrome extension to hide all "suggested" tweets of that sort (as well as hiding all sponsored tweets, and the "Favorite" button…
Can you share a link to this extension?
You can trivially hide an element permanently using any ad blocker of your choice.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you share a link to this extension?
Unfortunately it's just a folder on my computer -- I didn't want to pay the $5 to publish the extension on the Chrome Web Store (plus I speculate that Twitter would ban me if I publish it).
Should throw it on gitlab or github for free to share! :)
Re: “Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself”
#17"Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself" What am I missing here? There was no harassment of any sort. Alternative headlines could have been: "Twitter has an algorithm that helps you gain more followers" "Twitter has an algorithm that helps you drive awareness" "Twitter has an algorithm that helps you get more twitter followers for your cause or business" "Twitter has an algorithm that expands…
I guess the point is that Twitter could easily tone down pile ons by noticing that a tweet is generating many more replies than likes. Then reduce display of that tweet instead of boosting it to non-followers.
Perhaps not for blue checkmarks (they've declared themselves central to the public debate), but for average users Twitter should try to calm down pile ons.
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#18This is silly. Not sure what else to say about it.
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#20"Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself" What am I missing here? There was no harassment of any sort. Alternative headlines could have been: "Twitter has an algorithm that helps you gain more followers" "Twitter has an algorithm that helps you drive awareness" "Twitter has an algorithm that helps you get more twitter followers for your cause or business" "Twitter has an algorithm that expands…
I can see the poster's point of how it could lead to negativity in some cases, but like you I don't understand what the big revelation is here. Social networks thrive off more people interacting with more posts, so they show posts that have been interacted with a little bit to lots of people hoping they continue to get interacted with. That doesn't really surprise me at all.