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Am I in the minority in thinking Twitter integration in iOS is not a good idea? I already hate most tweets that come from apps (like people tweeting every sin

by city41 15y ago

Am I in the minority in thinking Twitter integration in iOS is not a good idea? I already hate most tweets that come from apps (like people tweeting every single song that comes on their Pandora, please stop doing this everyone). If iOS apps are going to decrease the already really bad signal/noise ratio that Twitter has, then I really hope Twitter responds by giving us more control over what tweets we see (similar to how Facebook lets us hide apps/users/specific posts, etc)

sunsu 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing some secret to twitter or something...but if you think someone is tweeting annoying or useless stuff, couldn't you just unfollow them?
- city41 15y ago
  That's a pretty clunky solution though. Most prolific tweeters tweet both useful and "fluffy" stuff. I'd like to be able to filter out the fluff and still see the quality tweets. And still yet for other users (mostly close friends), I like to see the fluffy stuff. So far I feel Facebook has solved this problem fairly well, and Twitter hasn't even begun to address it.
  - avk 15y ago
    I agree. There's also the social stigma of unfollowing. Most folks wouldn't unfollow a close friend, their boss, or a new client they're trying to woo. Facebook has done more to alleviate this problem than Twitter with the default newsfeed being an algorithmically curated one (Top News) rather than the full firehose (Most Recent) and their hide functionality. I've always found hiding on Facebook could be more useful. Hiding a single update feels pointless. Hiding everything from a friend is rarely required. All that leaves is hiding an app, assuming their update came from one. That's where content-based filtering tools like http://slipstre.am/ http://slipstre.am/ (disclosure: my app) and http://proxlet.com/ http://proxlet.com/ excel, even though they're Twitter-only.
Timothee 15y ago
Which makes me realize that I haven't seen any Twitter clients allowing you to filter out tweets by app. The info is provided through the API, so it'd be pretty easy to do. (NB: I haven't tried a whole lot of client so that might be out there, it's at least not very common) Second thought on the subject: what identifier will tweets from iOS have? It sounds like iOS will have Twitter at the OS level, so it's likely that it will be the same client ID/name for all tweets regardless of if they're coming from Safari, the Photo app or anything else. In fact, the keynote made it look like you needed the official Twitter iOS app, so it's likely to be that app ID/name.
- aaronbrethorst 15y ago
  "[redacted]" (kidding, it's actually "iOS")
- avk 15y ago
  http://proxlet.com/ http://proxlet.com/ lets you do this. It's not a Twitter client, it's an API proxy, most prominently used in a Chrome extension for Twitter.com. I built something very similar with http://slipstre.am/ http://slipstre.am/ though without client filtering. In 6 months, no one has asked for it. Pattern filtering seems to be good enough (e.g. block tweets containing "4sq.com" vs. tweets from the "Foursquare" app).
avk 15y ago
This is why I built http://slipstre.am/ http://slipstre.am/ but honestly there doesn't seem to be a lot of demand for this. Even on Facebook, where the feature has existed for a while, the average user I've talked to was never even aware of it.

by city41 15y ago

sunsu 15y ago

Maybe I'm missing some secret to twitter or something...but if you think someone is tweeting annoying or useless stuff, couldn't you just unfollow them?

city41 15y ago
That's a pretty clunky solution though. Most prolific tweeters tweet both useful and "fluffy" stuff. I'd like to be able to filter out the fluff and still see the quality tweets. And still yet for other users (mostly close friends), I like to see the fluffy stuff. So far I feel Facebook has solved this problem fairly well, and Twitter hasn't even begun to address it.
- avk 15y ago
  I agree. There's also the social stigma of unfollowing. Most folks wouldn't unfollow a close friend, their boss, or a new client they're trying to woo. Facebook has done more to alleviate this problem than Twitter with the default newsfeed being an algorithmically curated one (Top News) rather than the full firehose (Most Recent) and their hide functionality. I've always found hiding on Facebook could be more useful. Hiding a single update feels pointless. Hiding everything from a friend is rarely required. All that leaves is hiding an app, assuming their update came from one. That's where content-based filtering tools like http://slipstre.am/ http://slipstre.am/ (disclosure: my app) and http://proxlet.com/ http://proxlet.com/ excel, even though they're Twitter-only.

Timothee 15y ago

Which makes me realize that I haven't seen any Twitter clients allowing you to filter out tweets by app. The info is provided through the API, so it'd be pretty easy to do. (NB: I haven't tried a whole lot of client so that might be out there, it's at least not very common) Second thought on the subject: what identifier will tweets from iOS have? It sounds like iOS will have Twitter at the OS level, so it's likely that it will be the same client ID/name for all tweets regardless of if they're coming from Safari, the Photo app or anything else. In fact, the keynote made it look like you needed the official Twitter iOS app, so it's likely to be that app ID/name.

aaronbrethorst 15y ago
"[redacted]" (kidding, it's actually "iOS")
avk 15y ago
http://proxlet.com/ http://proxlet.com/ lets you do this. It's not a Twitter client, it's an API proxy, most prominently used in a Chrome extension for Twitter.com. I built something very similar with http://slipstre.am/ http://slipstre.am/ though without client filtering. In 6 months, no one has asked for it. Pattern filtering seems to be good enough (e.g. block tweets containing "4sq.com" vs. tweets from the "Foursquare" app).

avk 15y ago

This is why I built http://slipstre.am/ http://slipstre.am/ but honestly there doesn't seem to be a lot of demand for this. Even on Facebook, where the feature has existed for a while, the average user I've talked to was never even aware of it.