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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.
Why? Because “I’m rebellious”?
1. People promoting their own personal brand (including meme accounts and sex workers) 2. Musk stans 3. Crypto people 4. MAGA
I'm willing to cut a break for some of the accounts in (1) on a case-by-case basis but I've seen all I care to see of (2), (3), and (4) so even if any given tweet from someone is innocuous--and they're not clearly in (1)--the bluecheck is a great signal to block.
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Stock’s up and has been going up since that sponsorship. Twitter lost half its value according to Elon of all people.
This is factually incorrect. The ad was posted on April 1, a Saturday. On the last open stock day, the stock was at $66.73. After the ad, it started to slip. When news stories broke on April 4, it dropped from $66.34 to $63.38. Since then, it has climbed to $65.52. It's undeniable that the stock is still down. With that said, it's less than what some people seem to think. But it's also just a stock value which is bas…
Most of the unwanted tweets and users go away for me by telling twitter to only show people I follow. Although annoyingly, twitter appears to reset that setting every so often. Another alternative is to make use of private lists, as recommended here: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
I haven't double checked but I believe it's cookie based. That's why some people don't have any issues and others complain about it being reset. They delete their cookies.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/10/23549368/twitter-for-you-...
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That's gone now.
We still have the list of legacy verified users. Off site. So it's technically possible.
I get the intention of this, to try and claw back some usability of Twitter. I say let it be. Spend these dev hours working on a new platform or working on open source protocols so this type of mass takeover doesn't happen again on the whim of a billionaire.
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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.
That's gone now.
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I haven't double checked but I believe it's cookie based. That's why some people don't have any issues and others complain about it being reset. They delete their cookies.
I have a dedicated browser profile for twitter and all the cookies are kept there, so I don't think it's cookies. My theory is that twitter want users to consciously opt out of algorithmic recommendations whenever they push a new UX change. The last one coincided with this: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/10/23549368/twitter-for-you-...
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The "Orange Hellsite ." And Twitter is the "Blue Hellsite*". Both are bad, both still show up in my browser history. I don't know why.
If you'd like the "Orange Hellsite" to stop showing up in your browser history, enable "noprocrast" in your Orange Hellsite profile, then set maxvisit to 1 and minaway to 700 or something similarly large.