Something close is ‘Topics’ where Twitter automatically categorizes tweets into Topics such as Programming, Sports, Startup, etc. You can follow a topic and thus see only tweets in that group. So Mr A sends 2 tweets - one about his kids and the other about Python. If you’re following the topic ‘Programming’, you’ll only see the second tweet
> if you don't pay them to produce the stuff you like, either they will stop doing it, or turn to shady crap like whatever this BitClout thing is, NFTs, or just spyware advertising.
What a cynical take. "Pay me or I'll advertise spyware!" It doesn't work like that. I use Twitter as a social network to communicate with people, not to be pitched products I don't want.
I'm not asking for free stuff, I just want a decent signal to noise ratio and some honest conversations.
I myself have had to do this for numerous art accounts as sometime in 2021 they all started shilling NFTs.
For nearly all artists, their “personal” Twitter was always a billboard. If you have been enjoying people’s art, but never given them any money for it, it’s hardly surprising they turn to some strategy that might make them money, is it?
If you have been financially supporting artists you like in some other way, this doesn’t apply.
Nothing wrong with paying for content, but I don't want my Twitter feed full of daily pitches to sign up for the same thing over and over again. I use Twitter as a social network to communicate with people, not consume advertisements for content on other platforms. When someone turns their Twitter feed into a stream of ads or asks, I unfollow.
Dismissive attitude makes you miss out on a lot of opportunities.
I mean it's social media... literally the entire purpose of it is to monetize you, any information you manage to extract from it is just a tertiary side effect. Not only that, but typically the quality of information exchanged on social media is of the lowest quality, so you're really getting a bad deal on the whole if this is your expectation.
Only if you are one of the ~1500 initial users they seeded the system with. You don't have any money waiting for you because nobody has invested in you.
can you describe what you use as sources of information on twitter? Can't be any traditional media outlets because they also want you to pay.
Professionally, I also follow academic conferences I'm involved in. They tweet announcements like deadlines and highlight new research.
I strongly doubt they meant following a corporation's Twitter, or something like that.
Weaving markets and cryptocurrency into the fabric of a social network sounds like a dream come true for people trying to monetize their followers, but a nightmare for anyone who actually wants to follow them.
BitClout also uses some nasty dark patterns to get people to sign up. They scrape your profile from other social media sites, then assign it a “value” with a dollar amount. You have to sign up to claim the value, but after signing up you discover that the value isn’t real and you aren’t claiming the supposed money that was waiting for you.