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Does twitter force you to follow people you don't want to hear from? If I didn't want to hear from someone, wouldn't I not follow them in the first place? Wha
by omarhaneef 7y ago
Does twitter force you to follow people you don't want to hear from?
If I didn't want to hear from someone, wouldn't I not follow them in the first place?
What is the use case here?
- 1MachineElf 7y agoMaybe it has something to do with how Twitter will suggest tweets to you that meet their algorithms' threshold for popularity when the account that tweeted them is simply one that the people you follow also happened to follow. Plus I think there are socially left-leaning people in tech who want nothing to do with anything distinctly related to capitalism, and so ousting investors from their circles is seen as "good praxis" or whatever they call it.
- devtul 7y agoSeeing how widespread the use of blocklists is in lefty circles, nothing to do with anything challenging of their dogma.
- meagher 7y agoi see a bunch of tweets from folks i don't follow through retweets and (more commonly now) favorites. this let's me switch that on and off. overall, this was a little hack that everyone i talked to thought was funny.
- omarhaneef 7y agoOh, I didn't think about retweets. That explains it. (I wonder if it should reflect on the retweeter, positively or negatively).