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"But I absolutely want and need to know what they're saying." So follow them. You'll get everything they say delivered right to you, same as before.
by RugnirViking 7y ago
"But I absolutely want and need to know what they're saying."
So follow them. You'll get everything they say delivered right to you, same as before.
- rjkennedy98 7y agoTwitter is not an RSS feed. Twitter shadow-bans, sorts the tweets based on popularity, ect. Stopping retweets will absolutely affect your ability to see a tweet.
- RugnirViking 7y agoIf you follow somebody, does it ever not show you their tweet? I'm genuinely curious to hear more about their system.
- jki275 7y agoAbsolutely.
- namirez 7y agoDoes Twitter shadow-ban people whom you're following? I thought that's only for accounts that one is not following.
- MBCook 7y agoUse a 3rd party client like god intended.
- mixedCase 7y agoThe ones that you use Twitter's own site and/or gimped APIs?
- sixstringtheory 7y agoHaven't used Twitter for a year or so now, but last I checked, if you use their Lists instead of the main feed, then tweets are still ordered reverse-chronologically. But in general, agree with your sentiment.
- ctdonath 7y agoI rely heavily on those I follow to retweet interesting tweets. I may not want to read everything lots of people say just to get the interesting bits. For Twitter to decide “you can follow directly, but you can’t spread what they say” is one-off censorship.
- klyrs 7y agoThe first amendment says "Congress shall make no law," not "Twitter shall make no policy." You have the right to say, and publish, what you want. You don't have the right to compel anybody to listen to, agree with, or publish what you say.
- ctdonath 7y agoAgreed. And twitter better understand the dynamics of that, considering there’s a large fraction of users looking for a better platform to jump to.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoCensorship doesn't mean American bill of rights, that's very primitive way of thinking. World's a bit bigger you know.
- hesk 7y ago> I rely heavily on those I follow to retweet interesting tweets. That's interesting. I do the exact opposite. I turn off retweets for the vast majority of people I follow because I'm interested in their original ideas and not of random retweets of random stuff. I allow retweets for a very small fraction because they have demonstrated that the stuff they retweet I find actually interesting.