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List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by arkitaip »

nnd wrote: post #140

Twitter was the most useful social network for me personally, depending on who you follow you can come across some interesting ideas there. Yet, after a few months “sober” I wonder if I might be missing out. Is the signal to noise ratio high enough to justify using Twitter these days if you are not a major celebrity and don’t intend to promote something?

The way I see it is that there are actually two Twitters:

* Bad Twitter: is run by Twitter Inc. and tries everything to mess with your feed, turning it into a toxic mess that's designed to clickbait and outrage you. It is disrespectful and domineering in the way the UI is designed and every now and then it slaps you around by introducing a change in the UI that increases the noise in your feed.

* Good Twitter: this is the amazing people you know and don't know who use the social network to connect, create and have fun. It's creative af and makes it easy to discover new minds all around the planet. It's also very kind in that people will try to uplift each other and offer support in more ways I can recall.

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Post by drdeca »

anonymoushn wrote: post #152
danols wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time Twitter comes up on HN people complain about missing reverse chronological order and hating on the liked by tweets feature. The old classic mode is one click away. Or am I in a weird long running A/B testing group still having access to this feature? I know the default mode is not what most people here like but is it really that hard to switch the display mode?

Twitter regularly switches you back to garbage mode without telling you, and you have to mute all the words in this submission to make classic mode work. muting all these words does nothing if you are in garbage mode.

On my intentionally not updated install of iOS twitter, it doesn’t have the garbage mode (still has some inserted garbage, but is otherwise chronological)

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Post by vidyesh »

amiga_500 wrote: post #163
jpindar wrote: post #135

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Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

Had no idea about this. Is it well known?

Can't decide if you are being sarcastic or not. But I'll reply assuming its a serious question.

Tweetdeck was created by a third-party developer in 2008. It was and is so popular that Twitter acquired it in 2011 for £25 million.

And then Twitter started slowly shutting down its apps, all the mobile versions of Tweetdeck (Desktop, iOS and Android) were suspended and removed from respective app stores. Only keeping the web version alive altered and modified by Twitter. Tweetdeck also had Facebook, LinkedIn and some other social networking service integration, those were removed too. Tweetdeck is pretty much the best Twitter app for advanced users. Now its alive but we never know what Twitter plans to do with it.

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Post by tayo42 »

lucb1e wrote: post #51
neves wrote: post #11

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…

That can't be that easy with curl. You'd hopefully have to authenticate and get cookies

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Post by maltelandwehr »

wpietri wrote: post #132
jomoio wrote: post #16

Life got so much better after blocking "@threadreaderapp unroll" Interested to see how these work.

Just so others don't have to discover this: even if you block Threadreader, they will still harvest your tweets. You have to do "@ThreadReaderApp BLOCK ME".

Why would you do that? Why do people have an issue with Threadreader? A portion of Twitter users seems to really like it. So why not let them read your tweet storms that way?

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Post by sbtrct »

frandroid wrote: post #95
josefresco wrote: post #70

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Lists are a pain to access IMHO on purpose although they've improved it slightly. Open App Press on avatar Press Lists Press desired list. vs. Open app Now on desktop, using bookmarks, or a client like TweetDeck this is a valid solution.

Yeah, I would love to be able to have a list shortcut on my phone's homescreen.

That sounds like something you could build in Apple’s Shortcuts app (assuming you’re on iOS).

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Post by goodmachine »

anonymoushn wrote: post #152
danols wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time Twitter comes up on HN people complain about missing reverse chronological order and hating on the liked by tweets feature. The old classic mode is one click away. Or am I in a weird long running A/B testing group still having access to this feature? I know the default mode is not what most people here like but is it really that hard to switch the display mode?

Twitter regularly switches you back to garbage mode without telling you, and you have to mute all the words in this submission to make classic mode work. muting all these words does nothing if you are in garbage mode.

> Twitter regularly switches you back to garbage mode

Right. The other problem is that garbage mode is two-way.

I don't want to see other people's likes etc, and I don't want to have my own garbage jammed into anyone else's feed either. Short of going private there's no fix for this.

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