Re:Getting started on Twitter as a scientist
by abnry on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:30PM
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I tried blocking the blowhards, but it didn't work. Problem was retweets and the 10% of the time someone sane decided to tweet something insane. Hard to counter that. My feed was just too leaky. So I quit. Things seemed to change around 2016...
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Re:Getting started on Twitter as a scientist
by SyneRyder on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:42PM
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You can turn off retweets on a per-user basis, if someone is prone to retweeting nonsense. My answer to the 10% insanity has been to ruthlessly unfollow.
Using the Twitter website is still madness, though. The only way I can survive Twitter is with an app like Tweetbot or Fenix, that doesn't show what other users Like & keeps everything chronological. They're still around from the days when Twitter was designed to be used by third-party client apps, ala IRC.
Re:Getting started on Twitter as a scientist
by SkyMarshal on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @10:22PM
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*>My answer to the 10% insanity has been to ruthlessly unfollow.
Second this, absolutely necessary. You don't need many connections to make it worthwhile, just ones you wouldn't otherwise connect with in some other way besides Twitter.