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Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by epistasis »

archsurface wrote: post #7
ajross wrote: post #4

This 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.

You might want to find some better news sources.

Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by jgalt212 »

WheatMillington wrote: post #15
jgalt212 wrote: post #13

I 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.

But you still get to be self-important. Seems like a small price to pay.

Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by threeseed »

m3kw9 wrote: post #8

Why? Because “I’m rebellious”?

Twitter Blue (a) artificially increases reach and (b) signals to others that you're part of their so-called movement i.e. you're someone who is partial to culture wars.

If you're interested in non-political, high-quality content from those who are genuine about creating it then blocking Twitter Blue users is going to increase the overall signal to noise ratio.

Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by Avshalom »

itsuka wrote: post #18

I'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...

prior to the api nerfing https://www.theblockbot.com/ had a blocklist you could subscribe to that did that.

Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by m3kw9 »

threeseed wrote: post #23
m3kw9 wrote: post #8

Why? Because “I’m rebellious”?

Twitter Blue (a) artificially increases reach and (b) signals to others that you're part of their so-called movement i.e. you're someone who is partial to culture wars. If you're interested in non-political, high-quality content from those who are genuine about creating it then blocking Twitter Blue users is going to increase the overall signal to noise ratio.

You also gonna get bots as that was the intended purpose as it makes bot armies very expensive to keep, also to keep twitter afloat.

Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by Avshalom »

WheatMillington wrote: post #15
jgalt212 wrote: post #13

I 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.

worse really, he promised "better, more targeted ads" to the subscribers, which implies letting advertisers have more access their data.

Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by hezralig »

willio58 wrote: post #6

Blocking Twitter blue users will be hard to do as Elon continue to force Twitter blue on high-follower accounts who refuse to pay for it themselves

Doesn't the API still disclose who is a legacy check vs who bought their check? I recall that being the case and seeing a browser addon that would udpdate the checkmark the last few times I used the bird site.

Re: Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue

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Post by thinkingemote »

manojlds wrote: post #2

Feels like how people constantly talk about "the orange site" and how typical it is and what not and then continue to heavily use it.

Indeed, twitter only benefits from people using it. Having more people use it to organise some kind of block-boycott on it will only help engagement. Ultimately it's a signal and one used by a tiny minority.

It's a bit silly, if they hate twitter they should stop using it.

nevertheless I approve of extensions allowing people to add functionality to sites.

Now let's enable people to block toxic posts, porn, adverts, politics as well. Something more helpful to people.

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