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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by jackfoxy on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:37PM (#17510483)
Exactly this.

My other beef with twitter is a more sophisticated way to filter my timeline. I mean something that would make sense to a programmer, not the typical user friendly useless thing.

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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by sbr464 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:58PM (#17511655)
Yes I haven’t become a bigger Twitter user because it’s a huge time suck to actually get to the few topics/groups I care about. Medium also needs to do similar.
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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by ShabbosGoy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:06AM (#17512118)
Agreed. Basically, it is akin to having a second fulltime job. Except you don’t get paid anything.
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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by joshgel on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:00PM (#17511206)
yes! I really wish it had this. I have several interests. Sometimes I want to see the news, sometimes read about tech, sometimes medicine, whatever. It all just runs together and makes me less productive instead of more...
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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by matt4077 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:37AM (#17512638)
List work well fo that purpose. Many clients also allow imeline filtering, or saved searches (with Boolean queries, and including flags like „people I follow“
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