Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive

Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by nhangen on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:24PM (#2348304)

Meh...get over yourself Marco. Just because you aren't interested in these topics does not mean others are not. That's why they are trending in the first place.

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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by ZitchDog on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:29PM (#2348320)

He made a somewhat interesting point around this -- that even if you do hapen to be interested in a trending topic and select it, a bunch of mostly unrelated spamish tweets will be there to greet you when you select the topic.

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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by nhangen on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:33PM (#2348329)

That happens on search.twitter.com also, so it's not limited to the trending topic bar.

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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by ceejayoz on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:48AM (#2348519)

Sure, but Twitter should be able to fairly reliably detect that someone like Marco isn't interested in the global trends, and serve him stuff more likely to be of interest.

What Twitter's currently doing is akin to Google text ads on HN for Justin Bieber-themed desktop wallpapers - it's completely untargeted.

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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by nhangen on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:29AM (#2349805)

There's a different between being a poor service and being offensive.

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