News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time (2018). Parent comment

Re:In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet a... by undfg on Sunday July 04, 2021 @10:38AM (#27729931)
This was true before Twitter decided to inject tweets from people you don't follow into your timeline.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet a... by gnoll_of_gozag on Sunday July 04, 2021 @12:31PM (#27730852)
set to latest tweets instead of home and mute these phrases https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet a... by serf on Sunday July 04, 2021 @09:55PM (#27734076)
it's a noble effort, but it misses the point.

altruistic view : if you fix their service on your end, it invalidates portions of their feature A/B test -- a weaker signal means that it'll be less likely that they remove whatever feature offended you / made the service worse.

pessimistic view : they won't stop being abusive to the user until the abuse shows up on their financial reports. Stop being a patron, they'll be forced to change their ways.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet a... by angulardragon03 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @10:52AM (#27730049)
Tweetdeck on desktop (as well as using private lists on their mobile app) provide excellent solutions to this problem.
[ Parent | on HN ]