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Awesome, added it to my twitter. After refreshing, I wish there was a way to remove "Promoted" tweets still.

bluetidepro 7y ago
For promoted, you'll need to use like a browser extension or something 3rd party to remove those. I would be VERY surprised if they gave native ways like this to mute the main income source of their platform (promoted tweets/ads). haha
- dvtrn 7y ago
  They have the "See this less often" option if you click the options chevron within the promoted content. I'm convinced it's a placebo feature but...that's just me.
  - bluetidepro 7y ago
    Yeah, that (placebo), or it could mean "see this less often" of this TYPE of ad. So more about the content than the actual ad. Again, I highly doubt they are just going to let users use the platform without any ads.
    - dvtrn 7y ago
      That's the more probable reality, yup. It's just signalling to me maybe it's time finally just bow out and get off this platform once and for all.
  - zbuttram 7y ago
    My assumption is that is only for the particular ad or company and that they will just show you ads from other places instead. More of a way to nudge the system into showing you more "relevant" promoted tweets than actually removing them.
  - izzydata 7y ago
    You'll get less of that ad and more of another ad.
thrower123 7y ago
Block the accounts as they come, and you stop seeing any of them. In my experience, the vast majority are time-limited movie accounts.
- pzumk 7y ago
  This doesn’t work. I have blocked over 26k accounts and I still see ads. I don’t have blocked Apple or DuckDuckGo and most of the time I see those, but every single day I’m blocking more and more sponsored accounts because they keep appearing. You can’t block all of them. Here’s my Block List. Not sure why it didn’t update for two months, maybe it doesn’t work anymore: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/BrCdgyZpXmLQ25akOwtgfRZWzpC_a83jlntMnZjP https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/BrCdgyZpXmLQ25akOwtgfR...
  - mayneack 7y ago
    They come back, but it's significantly lower volume than without the block. I recently made a new account and was surprised by the volume. Mine is 100% (I think) from blocking ads, if you want a second source: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70CVaQcXZbgn5I9iN0OV https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70... (it's also updated 2 days ago)
- dawnerd 7y ago
  Hitting not interested also eventually starts to work. On desktop ublock origin actually manages to strip them all out anyways.
lildoggo 7y ago
I wrote something very similar for reddit a while back using an extension called Tampermonkey. Reddit uses the same CSS classes on all their promoted content so if twitter does this same this could work. Basically, you make an eventlistener on the scroll wheel and do document.getElementsByClassName('promoted-css-class-name'). Loop over the array of elements found and set the element style to 'display:none' for every element found every time you scroll. Not the most efficient approach, but effective!
- hiccuphippo 7y ago
  Oh, adding the event listener to the scroll is very clever. I was trying to do it "right" and using a MutationObserver to find when they added nodes to the document but this gets too convoluted fast.
mayneack 7y ago
Blocking significantly reduces the numbers, but they come back over time: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70CVaQcXZbgn5I9iN0OV https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...
slackwalker 7y ago
I use a slightly modified version of this UserScript in TamperMonkey: https://github.com/ZedNaught/blank-promoted-tweets https://github.com/ZedNaught/blank-promoted-tweets The change I've made is that I set the display of the promoted tweets to none, rather than setting their opacity to 0: article.setAttribute('style', 'display: none');
jpindar 7y ago
Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com https://tweetdeck.twitter.com. And optionally, the Better TweetDeck extention.

For promoted, you'll need to use like a browser extension or something 3rd party to remove those. I would be VERY surprised if they gave native ways like this to mute the main income source of their platform (promoted tweets/ads). haha

dvtrn 7y ago
They have the "See this less often" option if you click the options chevron within the promoted content. I'm convinced it's a placebo feature but...that's just me.
- bluetidepro 7y ago
  Yeah, that (placebo), or it could mean "see this less often" of this TYPE of ad. So more about the content than the actual ad. Again, I highly doubt they are just going to let users use the platform without any ads.
  - dvtrn 7y ago
    That's the more probable reality, yup. It's just signalling to me maybe it's time finally just bow out and get off this platform once and for all.
- zbuttram 7y ago
  My assumption is that is only for the particular ad or company and that they will just show you ads from other places instead. More of a way to nudge the system into showing you more "relevant" promoted tweets than actually removing them.
- izzydata 7y ago
  You'll get less of that ad and more of another ad.

thrower123 7y ago

Block the accounts as they come, and you stop seeing any of them. In my experience, the vast majority are time-limited movie accounts.

pzumk 7y ago
This doesn’t work. I have blocked over 26k accounts and I still see ads. I don’t have blocked Apple or DuckDuckGo and most of the time I see those, but every single day I’m blocking more and more sponsored accounts because they keep appearing. You can’t block all of them. Here’s my Block List. Not sure why it didn’t update for two months, maybe it doesn’t work anymore: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/BrCdgyZpXmLQ25akOwtgfRZWzpC_a83jlntMnZjP https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/BrCdgyZpXmLQ25akOwtgfR...
- mayneack 7y ago
  They come back, but it's significantly lower volume than without the block. I recently made a new account and was surprised by the volume. Mine is 100% (I think) from blocking ads, if you want a second source: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70CVaQcXZbgn5I9iN0OV https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70... (it's also updated 2 days ago)
dawnerd 7y ago
Hitting not interested also eventually starts to work. On desktop ublock origin actually manages to strip them all out anyways.

lildoggo 7y ago

I wrote something very similar for reddit a while back using an extension called Tampermonkey. Reddit uses the same CSS classes on all their promoted content so if twitter does this same this could work. Basically, you make an eventlistener on the scroll wheel and do document.getElementsByClassName('promoted-css-class-name'). Loop over the array of elements found and set the element style to 'display:none' for every element found every time you scroll. Not the most efficient approach, but effective!

hiccuphippo 7y ago
Oh, adding the event listener to the scroll is very clever. I was trying to do it "right" and using a MutationObserver to find when they added nodes to the document but this gets too convoluted fast.

mayneack 7y ago

Blocking significantly reduces the numbers, but they come back over time: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70CVaQcXZbgn5I9iN0OV https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...

slackwalker 7y ago

I use a slightly modified version of this UserScript in TamperMonkey: https://github.com/ZedNaught/blank-promoted-tweets https://github.com/ZedNaught/blank-promoted-tweets The change I've made is that I set the display of the promoted tweets to none, rather than setting their opacity to 0: article.setAttribute('style', 'display: none');

jpindar 7y ago

Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com https://tweetdeck.twitter.com. And optionally, the Better TweetDeck extention.