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Features I'd want: * No ads * No suggested topics * No suggested tweets, no people I might be interested in, no tweets someone I follow liked - just show me

Features I'd want: * No ads * No suggested topics * No suggested tweets, no people I might be interested in, no tweets someone I follow liked - just show me the people I follow and things they explicitly retweet * The timeline preserves order * Threads are grouped together and the entire thread is shown

2pEXgD0fZ5cF 5y ago
Same here, with such an offering I'd find a subscription attractive. But then again I'd also be more willing to subscribe in general if Twitter didn't try to sabotage my experience and timeline at every step already in the first place.
alkonaut 5y ago
What you want is api access and a decent client (Tweetbot, Tweetdeck). My client does exactly this (no ads, feed in order) and I can’t believe I have this for free already while others can’t even pay for it.
- mttjj 5y ago
  Exactly. Been using Tweetbot for years (a decade?). Never seen ads. Timeline is literally a “time line”. And nothing shows up that I don’t want to see like promoted tweets, tweets from people I don’t follow, or trends. Even has some awesome features on top of that like muting (people or hashtags). They’re only limited by Twitter’s throttled API at this point. However, literally the day that Twitter opened up viewing tweet likes via the API, Tweetbot had updated their app to support it. They switched to a subscription model with Tweetbot 6. And while I’m generally not a fan of subscriptions, I figured $6 per YEAR for an app that I use every day and have for nearly a decade is totally worth it to support the devs.
- crispyalmond 5y ago
  Curious, what's your client? I'm interested in that.
  - alkonaut 5y ago
    Tweetbot (although I realize they may have started charging so it’s not actually free.)
    - crispyalmond 5y ago
      I loved that app when I had an iPhone, I had Tweetbot 4 (I think) and I couldn't use Twitter without it. Thanks!
schleiss 5y ago
I once wrote about how you can achieve something similar with uBlock Origin: https://schleiss.io/fixing-twitter-design-with-extension https://schleiss.io/fixing-twitter-design-with-extension The post was from 2018 so I don't know if the css classes are still valid, also I messed up the images after an update, but I hope you get the gist.
insin 5y ago
Apart from the last one, and retweets are low-effort so they're hidden by default too: https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter
lovegoblin 5y ago
The last three things on this list are available in the "Latest" feed, rather than "Home."

2pEXgD0fZ5cF 5y ago

Same here, with such an offering I'd find a subscription attractive. But then again I'd also be more willing to subscribe in general if Twitter didn't try to sabotage my experience and timeline at every step already in the first place.

alkonaut 5y ago

What you want is api access and a decent client (Tweetbot, Tweetdeck). My client does exactly this (no ads, feed in order) and I can’t believe I have this for free already while others can’t even pay for it.

mttjj 5y ago
Exactly. Been using Tweetbot for years (a decade?). Never seen ads. Timeline is literally a “time line”. And nothing shows up that I don’t want to see like promoted tweets, tweets from people I don’t follow, or trends. Even has some awesome features on top of that like muting (people or hashtags). They’re only limited by Twitter’s throttled API at this point. However, literally the day that Twitter opened up viewing tweet likes via the API, Tweetbot had updated their app to support it. They switched to a subscription model with Tweetbot 6. And while I’m generally not a fan of subscriptions, I figured $6 per YEAR for an app that I use every day and have for nearly a decade is totally worth it to support the devs.
crispyalmond 5y ago
Curious, what's your client? I'm interested in that.
- alkonaut 5y ago
  Tweetbot (although I realize they may have started charging so it’s not actually free.)
  - crispyalmond 5y ago
    I loved that app when I had an iPhone, I had Tweetbot 4 (I think) and I couldn't use Twitter without it. Thanks!

schleiss 5y ago

I once wrote about how you can achieve something similar with uBlock Origin: https://schleiss.io/fixing-twitter-design-with-extension https://schleiss.io/fixing-twitter-design-with-extension The post was from 2018 so I don't know if the css classes are still valid, also I messed up the images after an update, but I hope you get the gist.

insin 5y ago

Apart from the last one, and retweets are low-effort so they're hidden by default too: https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

lovegoblin 5y ago

The last three things on this list are available in the "Latest" feed, rather than "Home."