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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by randallsquared on Saturday October 21, 2017 @07:46AM (#15521554)
It turns out, though, that lots of people you’d want to follow for interesting content also take a break from interesting, insightful, or funny tweets to have vitriolic rants.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by TeMPOraL on Saturday October 21, 2017 @09:24AM (#15521764)
True. It's almost as if you had to accept people as a whole, not only the parts of their personality you like.

/s

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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by randallsquared on Saturday October 21, 2017 @10:16AM (#15521903)
Yup. So awful. :)
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by zo1 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @09:12AM (#15521739)
Perhaps then the rules should enforce some sort of "theme" policy. I.e. if you're a gaming account, it has to stick to gaming content, etc. If it's political commentary, sure, and so forth. It might be difficult, but probably more do-able than the nebulous "abuse" rules that they currently have.

Really, it's what I hoped FB would turn into. I.e. you had "themed" pages, and follow them for posts regarding that theme. However, it seems that what happens is if a page and it's admins start getting any non-negligible amount of followers, they decide that it's their "right" to use it as a platform for opinions on unrelated matters. It's quite frustrating.

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