Why? Because “I’m rebellious”?
Twitter blue subscribers get boosted independent of the quality of the tweet, blocking them improves user experience.
Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
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Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#12This wreck will be studied in marketing courses for decades and decades. It's just amazing how badly this was played. Musk bought the company, immediately went to war against his biggest customers[1], then demanded that they all then pay him for a previously-free feature that... didn't actually do anything for the people who had it[2]. What did he think was going to happen? And the hilarious thing is that they're rol…
This wreck will be studied in marketing courses for decades and decades. Wait 'til you hear about Bud Light.
Stock’s up and has been going up since that sponsorship.
Twitter lost half its value according to Elon of all people.
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#13I thought we all agreed that advertising was the enemy[1] of the web? It turns out that $8 monthly fees for egomaniacs is the enemy of the web.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/adver...
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#14Most of the unwanted tweets and users go away for me by telling twitter to only show people I follow. Although annoyingly, twitter appears to reset that setting every so often.
Another alternative is to make use of private lists, as recommended here:
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#15I thought we all agreed that advertising was the enemy[1] of the web? It turns out that $8 monthly fees for egomaniacs is the enemy of the web. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/adver...
For $8 you still get ads.
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#16Why? Because “I’m rebellious”?
There are many many ways it improves my experience:
* I don't care about high follower count tweets, I'm not there for viral tweets, or popular media or generally anything that there are 1M in the world even care about. I'm there for niche experts that can not be found anywhere else
* I really don't care about reading the tweets of people who have to pay in order to get their opinion boosted. I do know severa people that have paid for Twitter for a long time, and would whitelist them. But otherwise, a blue check mark has become a very good signal for lower quality content that is likely to be some BS political propaganda I don't want in my life. I don't want NFT hustlers or get-rich-quick schemers rising to the top of any discussion.
The whole "verification" scheme was always of minimal utility on the site, mostly for making sure that what you're reading from a notable person actually came from that person and not an imposter. That was the value for users. Now that it's gone, the blue check mark has no positive value to me, and in fact 99% of the discussion from blue check mark holders is pointless idiotic defense of their purchases which is a massive waste of everybody's time. I do not care, burn it all with fire so I can get rid of the noise.
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#17"• Filter out Tweets by Elon Musk as you scroll"
What a useless feature, just block him?
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#18I'm not sure if it has already been implemented, but I wish someone would implement a blocker for Twitter Blue that excludes legacy verified accounts and people you follow/on your list. We have the necessary data to implement this: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/b50d6745298cccd6b1f4697e...
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#19Feels like how people constantly talk about "the orange site" and how typical it is and what not and then continue to heavily use it.
The "Orange Hellsite."
And Twitter is the "Blue Hellsite*".
Both are bad, both still show up in my browser history. I don't know why.
Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
#20Why is removing the bookmark button a feature? It’s effectively a private “likes” list. Filtering out all Elon and promoted tweets is a nice feature though.
Agreed. I think easier access to bookmarks is helpful. Knowing views is marginally helpful, I could live with or without it, but see no reason to remove it.
A lot of these features are for those who want no change. Which I can understand, but the changes aren't as drastic as say, GMail's pointless UI churn.