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The problem I found with blocking and muting people is that twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow - entirely in the hope of engaging me of

The problem I found with blocking and muting people is that twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow - entirely in the hope of engaging me of course, which most of the time means trying to pull me into an argument.

fossuser 6y ago
Sometimes it introduces you to new people though that are interesting to follow (usually because people in your network liked their post or something). I find this generally valuable. If you want to be extreme about it, you can put everyone in lists and then this won't happen. You can also use a third party client that doesn't do this. My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. I'd much rather have Twitter premium that removes the ads.
- _qulr 6y ago
  > My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. There are no ads in third party clients such as Tweetbot.
  - fossuser 6y ago
    I tried to use tweet bot for a while, but I couldn't stick with it.
  - CodeGlitch 6y ago
    When I was on Twitter I found the ads so distracting that I used the web version on my phone with Firefox and ublock origin. This did the job, just about if you can cope with the web client clumsiness and lag.
- ywei3410 6y ago
  That's quite surprising; I've found the ads to be fairly unobtrusive compared to almost any other website. I would prefer there to be a text only mode though - every so often, the ad repaint will cause the UI to "jump".
hntrader 6y ago
Using twitter lists might solve that?
_qulr 6y ago
> twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow Are you using the reverse chronological timeline? That's the only way to fly.
- FalconSensei 6y ago
  reverse chronological?
- randomsearch 6y ago
  I am, and it shows me tweets from people I don't follow. It cleverly uses the mechanism of "retweets" to show me them. It's only when you realise that _twitter only shows you selected retweets_ that you see the notion of retweeting is an excuse to show you tweets from people you don't follow.

fossuser 6y ago

Sometimes it introduces you to new people though that are interesting to follow (usually because people in your network liked their post or something). I find this generally valuable. If you want to be extreme about it, you can put everyone in lists and then this won't happen. You can also use a third party client that doesn't do this. My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. I'd much rather have Twitter premium that removes the ads.

_qulr 6y ago
> My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. There are no ads in third party clients such as Tweetbot.
- fossuser 6y ago
  I tried to use tweet bot for a while, but I couldn't stick with it.
- CodeGlitch 6y ago
  When I was on Twitter I found the ads so distracting that I used the web version on my phone with Firefox and ublock origin. This did the job, just about if you can cope with the web client clumsiness and lag.
ywei3410 6y ago
That's quite surprising; I've found the ads to be fairly unobtrusive compared to almost any other website. I would prefer there to be a text only mode though - every so often, the ad repaint will cause the UI to "jump".

hntrader 6y ago

Using twitter lists might solve that?

_qulr 6y ago

> twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow Are you using the reverse chronological timeline? That's the only way to fly.

FalconSensei 6y ago
reverse chronological?
randomsearch 6y ago
I am, and it shows me tweets from people I don't follow. It cleverly uses the mechanism of "retweets" to show me them. It's only when you realise that _twitter only shows you selected retweets_ that you see the notion of retweeting is an excuse to show you tweets from people you don't follow.