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Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by joshdance »

I doubt this does anything.

Reason is none of these words actually appear in the tweet body. It is not 'mute meta data about tweets' it is 'mute words' which presumably only are in the tweet body.

You can't mute tweets 'Sent from Android' why would you be able to mute tweets based on Twitters internal meta data?

Direct quote from Twitter "Hi Ian, muting these keywords won't actually change the number of suggested Tweets in your timeline. We are exploring ways to improve suggestions to allow you to further customize your timeline. More to come!" source - https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/122087242860531712

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Post by ryantgtg »

paulpauper wrote: post #29

blocking political words works wonders for me too

Simply blocking “Trump” made a massive difference for me. My accounts are all specialized and have nothing to do with politics, and yet no matter who I follow my feeds turn into at least 50% Trump stuff.

But I still spend way too much time saying “see less often” to things. Hopefully this mute list works well!

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Post by artsyca »

capableweb wrote: post #193
artsyca wrote: post #143

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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?

We're so quick to climb onto the corporate hierarchy even as we scorn the 'suits' and their corner offices

Every dev has low level access at some point be it writing or approving production code where do you think the concept of Easter eggs comes from which these clearly fit the description

It seems however we've gone so far up the ass of the corporate machine that we have become synonymous with it

I read a funny excerpt the other day in a book -- when Rome was full of slaves everyone started adopting a slave mindset because it was everywhere pretty soon you can't distinguish slave from master and so it is here when we as devs put ourselves into comfortable stereotypes but what do I know I'm just a low level dev

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by lucb1e »

tayo42 wrote: post #185
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…

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

> You'd hopefully have to authenticate and get cookies

Yes. When you use "copy as curl" a request, it copies the actual request as a curl command, including any headers (bearer token / cookie / whatever).

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Post by lucb1e »

capableweb wrote: post #192
capableweb wrote: post #103

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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"

FWIW I see nothing wrong with your comment and I fully agree that it should be common courtesy to post a comment with a downvote.

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Post by fireattack »

oehpr wrote: post #210
fireattack wrote: post #164

I actually enjoy these "retweeted by xxx", "xxx liked this" and other suggestions options. That's how I discover other people (mainly artists) on Twitter. Also I don't stay on Twitter all the time, so a curated timeline is more useful than a chronological one (yes, I'm going to miss some tweets, but I will miss some anyway even if I use the reverse chronological order because I won't scroll down that far.)

Yah, I agree. I don't necessarily think chronological ordering is the perfect curation system either. But the problem is that whatever criteria Twitter uses isn't aligning with what I think it should be. Now of course, I'm not special, I shouldn't expect it WOULD be aligned with what I consider good curation. But I can't imagine the choices they ARE making are anywhere near the mean users preference. So lots of peopl…

There is "show less often" option for each Tweet.

How effective it is, I don't know.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by fireattack »

brandur wrote: post #97
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.

This has improved quite a bit on recent versions of the official mobile clients. If you go to your lists, you can "pin" a list, which has the effect of making it an alternate timeline from the app's home screen. It's a little subtle, but on home you'll now have "Home" and your list's name at the top of the screen, with the active one getting a blue underline. Swipe left or right to select one or the other.

You can't do it on Android version even today, almost 1 year after they added this feature on iOS version.

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Post by Jon_Lowtek »

kortilla wrote: post #157
capableweb wrote: post #101

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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.

Google just fired a dev who pushed in some pro union messages into a security tool. All it takes is a rubber stamp from another engineer.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by jpindar »

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?

No, I don't think it is.

BTW, there's a browser add-on called "Better TweetDeck" that adds some more options to it.

https://better.tw/

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Post by frandroid »

sbtrct wrote: post #188
frandroid wrote: post #95

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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).

I'm on Android but I see where you're getting at here, thanks for the idea.
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