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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by sneak on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:17AM (#12084435)
> (roughly) reverse-chronological list of text-message length posts'.

Twitter went algorithmic timeline not too long ago, sadly.

Fortunately, it can still be turned off - but is on by default.

Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by majewsky on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:27AM (#12084751)
> it can still be turned off

Where? I unchecked every setting that I found, but I still get that "While you were away" and "#something is currently trending" bullshit.

Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by denzil_correa on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:26AM (#12085937)
Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by coldpie on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @10:50AM (#12086558)
You can't get rid of the dumb "while you were away" thing, but you can block it. With ublock origin, add this to your "My Filters" settings:

  twitter.com##has-recap
Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by te_chris on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:25AM (#12084473)
You can turn it off??? This is the best news I've heard in ages.
Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by denzil_correa on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:27AM (#12085943)
Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by macintux on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:13AM (#12085846)
FWIW, as far as I know it hasn't infected 3rd party clients, or at least Tweetbot is still unaffected.