Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by CraigRood on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:36PM (#27317497)

I kinda understand them. I love Twitter but I have had a period of time where I fell out of love. For me, the 'algo' is poor and tends to promote the 'wrong' content, rather than informative and meaningful posts. Once start following the right people, the value you can get out is incredible. If you follow political or even brands/celebrities, you are going to have a bad time. At that point Twitter is used as nothing more than a way for those to promote themselves.

Follow positive, talented and creative folk, they will provide value back.

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by jdasdf on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:36PM (#27318956)

Is there even an "Algo"? I always just see every post of the people who i follow, and posts they like or retweet, and absolutely nothing else (other than the occasional ad).

Then again i keep a very tight leash on who i follow, and keep the number of follows very low, so i know exactly what sort of content will show up. Is that not how most people use twitter?

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by lovegoblin on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:18PM (#27319397)

> Is there even an "Algo"?

There are two main twitter feeds:

- Home: the algo one that twitter wants you to use. Mostly those you follow but not 100%; this will sometimes show very popular tweets or maybe something your followees liked (but didn't RT).

- Latest: which is just the (imo, good) original "everything from those you follow, reverse chronologically".

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