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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 lucb1e »

neves wrote: post #11

Must enter one by one? Can't I copy and paste everything?

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 so it's quite easy for me to do this sort of thing quickly without having to remember the exact flags and type all of that.

[1] .bashrc addition: alias c-v='xclip -out -selection clipboard'

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by Grue3 »

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.

Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by cpeterso »

I've noticed that muted words don't mute ads. I've muted words like "blockchain", "bitcoin", and "Ethereum" and yet I still see ads for blockchain startups. Shouldn't the fact that I went out of my way to mute a word be a strong signal that I am not a good match for an ad??

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by thebigshane »

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…

It sounds like the common reply regarding Reddit quality and toxicity as well.

   Don't visit the front pages, stay in the curated sub-reddits.
I think it is good advice but the low-quality and the toxicity of the front/main pages still inevitably ends up bleeding into the smaller channels.

And the fault is still on Reddit/Twitter themselves because they aren't/can't ever de-emphasize those main top-level channels, as that's their main audience and so that's where they make money in advertising.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by jessriedel »

ianbicking wrote: post #48
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.

Is there any fast way to populate a list with everyone you are already following?

I believe you can batch add the people you follow to a list using this Chrome extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icotile-twitter-fr...

In particular, there is a "select all" button. It may break if you have too many people, though.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by hanniabu »

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.

I think you can also get around this same stuff by just creating a tweetdeck and creating a column for people you follow.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Post by jakub_g »

swanson wrote: post #43
no_flags wrote: post #2

Am I correct in assuming these are mostly to filter out tweets pushed by Twitter from people I don't follow?

Yeah it removes all of the random "liked by someone you follow" or "popular in your network" etc tweets that slowly creep in over time.

Yesterday Twitter started showing me "someone you don't follow replied to another person you don't follow" types of conversations and it's gotten really absurd at this point.
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