List of Twitter mute words for your timeline • Hacker News Board

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by gonehome » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

bluetidepro wrote: post #5

I would love to see this list updated with example screenshots of what each one actually mutes. Either way, I had no idea Twitter muting worked like this, where you could actually mute TYPES of tweets, and not just content IN the tweets. I don't think they go over this in their docs: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m... - I wonder if they will block this or break this if it picks up steam s…

Yeah it looks like something that accidentally works because of their implementation rather than something they actually want to be possible.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by jdminhbg » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:49 PM UTC

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #13

What I want is an option in the dropdown menu next to tweet to mute the tweeter for 24hours. Sometimes, someone randomly goes on a tirade you don't want to scroll past.

Tweetbot has this (along with week, month, and forever).

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by cabaalis » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:49 PM UTC

I don't use twitter much but it does feel cleaner with these in place.

I'm assuming though that this is a technicality of implementation. Since it changes their preferred experience, I can't imagine these keywords will remain available to block.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by dzhiurgis » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

Topics worked so well until they decided to reinvent them few months ago. Now:

* Some key topics missing

* The ones that are not missing, miss key people

* They keep adding me to new topics that I have 0 interest in

Also, Topics were always in Explore tab that showed all sort of shit that I don't care about. Should be a separate tab for topics (though useless now, so don't bother I guess).

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by WA » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

- create a private list

- instead of following people, add people to the list

Bam. No ads, no suggestions, no "x liked this", reverse chronological order with no missing posts.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by throwawayh3h3ti » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:54 PM UTC

Does anyone know if there is any way to mute every twitter account that contains their "pronouns" in their bio? I have a running theory that nobody with gender pronouns in their bio has anything of value to add to the conversation. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by maxaf » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:57 PM UTC

fernandotakai wrote: post #26

maxaf wrote: post #12

For optimal effect, add the following to your /etc/hosts or its equivalent on your system: 127.0.0.1 twitter.com

i... don't agree there. twitter is what you make of it. if you follow toxic people, you will get a toxic timeline. me? i follow close friends, a bunch of economists from all sides (mostly from my own country) and some comedians. that's it. my timeline is super clean, i open every once in a while and it's never bad. (side note: i met both of my best friends on twitter. oh and i also met my wife on twitter. it's not a…

That’s how Twitter started for me too, but after a while degenerated to become the toxic mess which finally drove me away. My experience goes to show that people change over time: some, whose influence I formerly found enlightening, reverted to behavior that made me angry and unhappy. Soon others followed suit. Eventually signal was drowned in noise, so I quit.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by dawnerd » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:57 PM UTC

thrower123 wrote: post #9

Fenrisulfr wrote: post #4

Awesome, added it to my twitter. After refreshing, I wish there was a way to remove "Promoted" tweets still.

Block the accounts as they come, and you stop seeing any of them. In my experience, the vast majority are time-limited movie accounts.

Hitting not interested also eventually starts to work. On desktop ublock origin actually manages to strip them all out anyways.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by Nextgrid » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:58 PM UTC

fernandotakai wrote: post #26

maxaf wrote: post #12

For optimal effect, add the following to your /etc/hosts or its equivalent on your system: 127.0.0.1 twitter.com

i... don't agree there. twitter is what you make of it. if you follow toxic people, you will get a toxic timeline. me? i follow close friends, a bunch of economists from all sides (mostly from my own country) and some comedians. that's it. my timeline is super clean, i open every once in a while and it's never bad. (side note: i met both of my best friends on twitter. oh and i also met my wife on twitter. it's not a…

The platform itself optimises for outrage and encourages it, explicitly worsens the user experience with the “algorithmic” timeline and stuff you don’t care about like tweets from accounts you don’t follow, etc.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 8:58 PM UTC

WA wrote: post #35

- create a private list - instead of following people, add people to the list Bam. No ads, no suggestions, no "x liked this", reverse chronological order with no missing posts.

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