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A bot of a tangent, but a year ago I loved Twitter and found it engaging. I tweeted mildly interesting comments and sometimes mildly amusing anecdotes. Then th
by jimnotgym 9y ago
A bot of a tangent, but a year ago I loved Twitter and found it engaging. I tweeted mildly interesting comments and sometimes mildly amusing anecdotes.
Then the algorithms took hold. Now most of what I tweet goes totally unnoticed. Now perhaps I am more boring now (even though I have a lot more folowers), but it doesn't seem to be the case, I think I was just as inane before.
On the other hand, if I get maybe four or five friends to retweet me, all of a sudden I have exposure and I get read, liked and retweeted a lot. This has just pushed Twitter more into the hands of bots. If I had a bot army of maybe 10 bots I would get a fair bit of exposure.
There is also a momentum thing, if I take a couple of weeks off Twitter it doesn't love me any more when I come back.
This has ruined Twitter for me.
- munchor 9y agoI am pretty sure you can disable the algorithmic feed in the settings. It's under "Show the best Tweets first" checkbox in the "Account" page of the Settings.
- jimnotgym 9y agoThat won't fix my experience, unless you can get everyone else to turn it off too
- rainbowmverse 9y agoThis is only available on older accounts and doesn't seem to work anyway.
- weka 9y agoYou know what ruined Twitter for me? Having them clog up my twitter timeline of people I don't _even_ follow with their tweets or the LIKES of people I do. They distorted what a timeline was and thus the follow button essentially became ruined.
- arca_vorago 9y agoWhat really pisses me off is that now I get message notifications for "you might have missed what X said"... Twitter, thats not a fucking message!
- 534534535353 9y agoUgh I get these all the time.
- alxmdev 9y agoIt's really too bad, up until a few months ago the Twitter timeline was an ok place to see what other people whose work I admire were up to, but now it's a torrent of irrelevant spam so why bother using it. So frustrating to see something good be ruined, goes to show how little control over your experience, and indeed everything else, you have with these services.
- dawnerd 9y agoThats why I just use apps like tweetbot. Going to the actual twitter site is always a surprise.