Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by lucumo on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:52PM
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> False; Twitter’s algorithm pushes lots of stuff you don't directly follow
I don't see any of that, on the official mobile app with timeline set to "latest Tweets". The only stuff from non-followed accounts I see are ads, and those aren't even terrible.
I do use the killfile zealously though.
I like Twitter precisely because it puts me in control over which accounts I get to see. It's the only social network that I still enjoy using.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by dragonwriter on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:07PM
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> I don't see any of that, on the official mobile app with timeline set to "latest Tweets".
Yes, if you use a non-default setting carefully isolated from the Settings menu on its own menu with a non-intuitive icon, it behaves differently.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by lucumo on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:57PM
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This is the kind of bullshit reaction I don't see on Twitter, using supported features.
I had no doubt that somebody who hates Twitter could find a facile excuse for that hate. I didn't need the demonstration.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by FranzFerdiNaN on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:28PM
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I never see this? All I see are posts and retweets made by the people I decided to follow.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by javajosh on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:32PM
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This is my experience as well. Perhaps people use different clients and experience it differently. I use the web client almost exclusively and I often see toxic replies to people I follow or, occasionally, subjects I've engaged with before. It would be worth exploring alternative clients that show me only tweets from people I follow, and hides all responses unless I choose to dig in.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by tootie on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:49PM
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As someone with mostly high-quality follows, the "promoted" posts I get in my feed are so utterly trashy and obvious it's embarrassing. A lot of the "featured" posts are also way outside my interests and frequently posted out of context to the point that they don't make sense.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by eropple on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:31PM
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This depends on how you interact with Twitter too, though. I use TweetDeck and I don't see any of that.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by dragonwriter on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:40PM
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Well, yeah, if you don't use the official client, you don't necessarily see Twitter’s feed at all.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by kristofferR on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:09PM
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TweetDeck is an official Twitter client.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by whynotkeithberg on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:02PM
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I use the official client and don't have any of the issues you describe. I'm pretty sure the crowd you follow & engage with is the issue.
False; Twitter’s algorithm pushes lots of stuff you don't directly follow and is very clearly heavily driven by subject categorization (which is often also hilariously bad), as well as stylistic categorization (or maybe instead of it, as I see very little indication that the latter plays a role.) So, if you see toxic posts, it probably means you engage with tweets ON SUBJECTS on which some people post toxic takes, or follow people who post tweets on such topics.
It doesn't require any direct interaction with toxic tweets or individuals.