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This appears to be tips for engaging in "influencing" For the rest of us there are ways to get the best from twitter. The "home" screen is where they insist o

This appears to be tips for engaging in "influencing" For the rest of us there are ways to get the best from twitter. The "home" screen is where they insist on showing you random shit, trends and vitriol. There are setting you can flip to turn these off, however I can't remember them. This is where lists come in They only work[1] if you unfollow everyone but a handful of close contacts, or people who don't "like", "had got a reply" or retweets stuff that annoys you. once you have a small "clean" set of contacts, you feel like you're missing out, this is where lists come in. You can now setup a bunch of lists for various interests that you have. List timelines don't have any bells and whistles, they are almost linear time, and have none of the "x has received a reply" shit on the home timeline. It also allows you to partition your timeline by your mood. So if you're not in the mood for politics, don't look at the politics tab. [1] it works for me

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SECProto 6y ago
If you set twitter feed to "the latest tweets as they happen" (as opposed to "show top tweets first"), you don't get the "so-and-so liked this tweet" etc in the main feed. Combine that with turning off retweets for people if they're retweeting annoying garbage and you don't have to mess around with lists.
- jmugan 6y ago
  How do you do that on the website? I've searched around, but all of the descriptions of how to do it appear out of date.
  - troydavis 6y ago
    On the desktop home screen (https://twitter.com/home https://twitter.com/home), look immediately to the upper right of where you'd compose a new tweet. There's a small icon with three twinkling stars. Click it. You'll see two options: "Latest tweets" (pre-2019 behavior) and "Top tweets" (2019+ default). Change it to "Latest tweets." The change will last as long as your session does. For whatever reason, it will revert to "Top tweets" every time your browser's session expires. I assume Twitter does that to nudge people to experience the new feed ordering, but I think silently reverting it probably just baffles and/or frustrates them.
    - jmugan 6y ago
      Thanks! You'd think that would be in preferences somewhere instead of hidden right in front of me. Hopefully, this will allow me to start using Twitter again.
  - Lammy 6y ago
    IIRC, accounts registered after the change don't get the option.

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SECProto 6y ago

If you set twitter feed to "the latest tweets as they happen" (as opposed to "show top tweets first"), you don't get the "so-and-so liked this tweet" etc in the main feed. Combine that with turning off retweets for people if they're retweeting annoying garbage and you don't have to mess around with lists.

jmugan 6y ago
How do you do that on the website? I've searched around, but all of the descriptions of how to do it appear out of date.
- troydavis 6y ago
  On the desktop home screen (https://twitter.com/home https://twitter.com/home), look immediately to the upper right of where you'd compose a new tweet. There's a small icon with three twinkling stars. Click it. You'll see two options: "Latest tweets" (pre-2019 behavior) and "Top tweets" (2019+ default). Change it to "Latest tweets." The change will last as long as your session does. For whatever reason, it will revert to "Top tweets" every time your browser's session expires. I assume Twitter does that to nudge people to experience the new feed ordering, but I think silently reverting it probably just baffles and/or frustrates them.
  - jmugan 6y ago
    Thanks! You'd think that would be in preferences somewhere instead of hidden right in front of me. Hopefully, this will allow me to start using Twitter again.
- Lammy 6y ago
  IIRC, accounts registered after the change don't get the option.