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Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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post #96

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Yeah it looks like something that accidentally works because of their implementation rather than something they actually want to be possible.

Maybe it's a "backdoor" added by some lower level devs who don't have access to the official controls for hiding the spam for themselves.

Would would hope that a big service like Twitter has checks and balances in place so no "lower level dev" can add whatever they feel like to the production service.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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post #51
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Must enter one by one? Can't I copy and paste everything?

If you look at the request it does, use "copy as curl", replace the word with "$word", and put it between: xclip -out -selection clipboard | while read word; do ; done Then you can probably do the whole list at once. There is probably also a javascript way to automate this, but if they do it with ajax, this might be faster. Since I do this sort of automation regularly, I aliased the clipboard pasting to "c-v"[1] and…

If you feel like trying something else than xclip, xsel allows you to easily remember the command with just `xsel -o` instead of that.

Also, if the JS way would use AJAX, it would take the exact same time to perform the requests via the browser, as it would with curl, unless there is some particular quirk with their server/setup/deployment/god, or if you have a computer that doesn't run Twitter (the client side application) so good (bottleneck in cpu/ram rather than network speed)

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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You can just switch from "Home" to "Latest Tweets" and all of this goes away.

Exactly. In some interfaces you'll be eventually switched back to "Home" automatically. You can tell this has happened because Twitter becomes less awesome. When I find myself thinking, "Why does Twitter suck today?" I scroll up and find that I'm back on "Home".

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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post #84

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LOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.

This is ostrich behaviour. "La la la, I can't hear you, you're not saying anything important"

Actually they don't do that, and neither would I if I could run 50 mph, was huge, and preferred breathing air, but anyway: Importance (which is import, meaning) is mostly subjective. If there's such a thing as objective importance, attention is probably orthogonal to it. And to subjective importance too, at least at first, but then extended attention probably increases perceived/subjective importance just as protracted inattention decreases it.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

#108
post #96

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Maybe it's a "backdoor" added by some lower level devs who don't have access to the official controls for hiding the spam for themselves.

Would would hope that a big service like Twitter has checks and balances in place so no "lower level dev" can add whatever they feel like to the production service.

Your hope isn't compatible with "move fast and break things"

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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post #90

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As Twitter grows, they stray further and further from just showing you tweets from people you follow, and start showing all sorts of other crap you didn't ask for in your feed, such as "person X liked this tweet" or "here's a tweet from someone you may like", and so on. There is no "official" way to disable these annoying entries in your feed, but over time people have found secret "tags" that if you put in your mute…

The official way is to switch from Home to Latest Tweets. It works quite well, actually.

It automatically reverts to home every few days (at least using the official Android app).

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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post #52

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Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.

LOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.

i don't have a twitter either but i follow important people there. (it works on the web version at least).

john carmack for example often updates on his twitter. a couple of programmers & artists i like too. also the trends column is the most accurate "mood indicator" ever.

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