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They might make it harder to choose but props to Twitter for still having the chronological option and allowing access through alternative interfaces like Tweetdeck unlike say Facebook. Also props for letting you to just straight block in the normal way the account behind an ad you see.
Seems like every year Twitter does something I’d hate during Lent. I wonder if their users drop off noticeably and they panic or if they know it is coming.
I always imagine their user counts are quite low compared to other social media. Where I live I’m quite the outlier for using Twitter, very few people use it. Most that do work in tech. Is that different in other parts of the world? Is Twitter mainstream social media that almost everyone you know has?
Ffs. The availability of the chronological timeline is the only reason why Twitter still works for me and Facebook and LinkedIn don't. I keep seeing the same shit on the latter two, despite extensive attempts to train the recommender engine. Facebook just keeps showing me the same posts over and over again. LinkedIn shows different posts, but they are all so cookie cutter similar that they might as well have been the…
I fear the cookie-cutter similarity of business communications isn't something LinkedIn will be able to fix.
Banality is a borderline essential component of business communications.
I absolutely loathe LinkedIn; it's the social network I resent the most.
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Hotels don’t make money if you stay in the room, it actually costs them money in terms of electricity. But they do want you to spend money so they might indeed do things such as banning outside food deliveries or making the basin un-pluggable so that you can’t do your own laundry. There was a case a few years ago where a Marriott got fined for blocking outside wifi. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/03/mar…
>Hotels don’t make money if you stay in the room, it actually costs them money in terms of electricity. No, them renting the room to you - when you'll usually be out of it most of the day - is absolutely how they make money. Maybe in Las Vegas the room rate is a loss leader but your average business hotel is 100% making their profit on the room.
I've stopped using Facebook since they messed up timeline several years ago (even manually selecting “Newest posts” started to do… nothing).
Seems like every year Twitter does something I’d hate during Lent. I wonder if their users drop off noticeably and they panic or if they know it is coming.
I always imagine their user counts are quite low compared to other social media. Where I live I’m quite the outlier for using Twitter, very few people use it. Most that do work in tech. Is that different in other parts of the world? Is Twitter mainstream social media that almost everyone you know has?
Probably hear most people talk about faceboook though.
I know a few of the people I follow on Twitter but not many that live anywhere near me.
I still haven’t figured out how to read twitter conversations / threads and profiles. Everything always seems out of order. Referenced things are just generally missing as well. I don’t think they were deleted but I have no idea.
It is, as it has always been, a banal protocol trying to dress up as an impressive product.
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why not just mute accounts you don't wanna see unless you ar elooking for them specifically and also disable retweets from people you are not interested in RT
Twitter "helpfully" shows suggestions, ads, tweets people you follow liked, tweets from people followed by people you follow, replies by people you follow that don't appear in their timeline, etc. etc., and the tweets are sorted however the app decides that day. None of those things happen in lists.
I think my other new favorite is having to click "more replies" after what, 8 tweets? Garbo.
Just use Twitter's lists. I've been using them for a long time. I added to one of my lists only the accounts that I really want to see on my feed (no old school friends, acquaintances, nor random people that some of the accounts I follow just started following: only sources with added value). The result? Open your list, and you'll see all the tweets sorted chronologically, only from the accounts you really care to fo…
Interesting, thanks for the suggestion. Is there an easy way to create a list with everybody I follow?
You do unfortunately need a twitter developer account. Also fair warning, as far as I know I'm the only current user, but works on my machine™.