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I don't have problems with retweets, I usually just stop following people who retweet non-interesting noise. Twitter however now also displays tweets people I

I don't have problems with retweets, I usually just stop following people who retweet non-interesting noise. Twitter however now also displays tweets people I follow have liked and that has been the worst change for me. People seem to use retweets more sparingly (and may even think if followers are interested before retweeting) than likes. So now my feed is full of cat pictures and memes users have liked instead of just the content I really subscribed for.

vmarsy 9y ago
> Twitter however now also displays tweets people I follow have liked and that has been the worst change for me. I rarely go on Twitter but I've noticed that the "X liked this" are usually the worst of all on my newsfeed. But there's a fix for this: click on the "..." menu -> "I don't like this tweet" on a few of them, and then you shouldn't see any more of the "X liked this tweet" The only one I see now are "X and Y liked this tweet from Z" but in that case I follow both X, Y, and Z. This has improved the quality of the feed dramatically.
rb666 9y ago
Haven't seen any of this in Tweetbot. Twitter's own clients kinda blow.
dorfsmay 9y ago
Agreed. You can configure twitter to not add retweets from particular accounts you follow, and that's great, but unfortunately, you cannot prevent it from adding tweets that have been liked. At this point what is the difference between "like" and "retweet"?
- mnx 9y ago
  likes don't always show. re-tweets do.
bazzargh 9y ago
That noise is missing in clients like Tweetbot, but to use the website these days I have a bunch of ublock rules: https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/7fced928736890eef1f4bd302c757878 https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/7fced928736890eef1f4bd302c7... ... including those annoying favourites-as-retweets (.tweet-has-context:not([data-retweeter])). It really grates that they introduced that without allowing you to mute that like RT's, or a way to stop your own tweets showing up like that; and surprising that the feature survived after Ted Cruz's nsfw 'like' showed up that way last year.

vmarsy 9y ago

> Twitter however now also displays tweets people I follow have liked and that has been the worst change for me. I rarely go on Twitter but I've noticed that the "X liked this" are usually the worst of all on my newsfeed. But there's a fix for this: click on the "..." menu -> "I don't like this tweet" on a few of them, and then you shouldn't see any more of the "X liked this tweet" The only one I see now are "X and Y liked this tweet from Z" but in that case I follow both X, Y, and Z. This has improved the quality of the feed dramatically.

rb666 9y ago

Haven't seen any of this in Tweetbot. Twitter's own clients kinda blow.

dorfsmay 9y ago

Agreed. You can configure twitter to not add retweets from particular accounts you follow, and that's great, but unfortunately, you cannot prevent it from adding tweets that have been liked. At this point what is the difference between "like" and "retweet"?

mnx 9y ago
likes don't always show. re-tweets do.

bazzargh 9y ago

That noise is missing in clients like Tweetbot, but to use the website these days I have a bunch of ublock rules: https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/7fced928736890eef1f4bd302c757878 https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/7fced928736890eef1f4bd302c7... ... including those annoying favourites-as-retweets (.tweet-has-context:not([data-retweeter])). It really grates that they introduced that without allowing you to mute that like RT's, or a way to stop your own tweets showing up like that; and surprising that the feature survived after Ted Cruz's nsfw 'like' showed up that way last year.