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List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by filleduchaos »

hesk wrote: post #90
ehsankia wrote: post #77

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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.

All the mentioned things still show up in the latest feed.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by capableweb »

capableweb wrote: post #103
lucb1e wrote: post #51

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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 appli…

Wondering if the downvote came because of someone thinking xsel is inferior to xclip, or if there is a misunderstanding what AJAX really is... Would be great if people say something more than "I DIDNT LIKE THAT"

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by capableweb »

artsyca wrote: post #143
inetknght wrote: post #108

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

The tone of this conversation is wrong on so many levels Lower level can equally mean 'direct access' or 'service level' it doesn't have to be a corporate hierarchy thing

Now I have worked at any FANG company, or even larger than 200+ employees, but I've never heard "lower level dev" to mean they have "low level access". Is this a common label to give people who have access to production database for example?

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by maxerickson »

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

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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.

It seems adaptive, my impression is that I have to toggle it back less and less.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by chaz6 »

thomascgalvin wrote: post #131
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #130

In classic fashion, some people decided to write a script to automate entering the mute list, something that took me maybe 2 minutes in total to do manually. [1] https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...

Two minutes multiplied by even a hundred people more than makes up for the time spent scripting this. That's just sort of how hackers do.

Quite; the latest trend of "Robotic Process Automation" is quite sad. Rather than automating a bad process, you should improve the process itself.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by vincvinc »

I was totally expecting this to be a "antidote for the upcoming US elections that I want nothing to do with" list, like I have:

  elections
  trump
  warren
  clinton
  republican
  democrat
  bernie
  biden
  gender
  male
  female
  privilege
  race
  racism
  racist
  white house
  outrage
  cancelled
... greatly recommended as a way to get back some control over which information you prioritize.
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