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My problem is that "person" is a broader category than I want to unfollow. There are precious few people whose posts I want to see all of. Most people I have ev

My problem is that "person" is a broader category than I want to unfollow. There are precious few people whose posts I want to see all of. Most people I have ever followed exist somewhere on a continuum of what proportion of their tweets I want to see. It would be nice to have more positions on the knob than 100% and 0%. What I'd really like would be to say "don't show me tweets like this from this person". Yes it's hard to figure out what "tweets like this" mean to me, but hey, you're a giant company that does nothing but show an updating page of hypertext, seems like you could throw some work toward figuring this out.

jacobr1 5y ago
> seems like you could throw some work toward figuring this out. They already have a start - they push following categories. So presumably they are categorizing individual tweets into these categories. It should be feasible to both provide finer-grain categories, and tooling to include/exclude how those intersect with those accounts one is following.
- sanderjd 5y ago
  Indeed. The final step is learning fine grained personal preference informed (but not entirely) by those coarser categories.
- JasonFruit 5y ago
  The link between categories and the tweets assigned to them is weak. I puzzled over a political tweet categorized under Science until I realized that it included the word "reaction". (Or something like that.) That's a frequent occurrence. I unfollowed categories.
  - sanderjd 5y ago
    Oh yes, but they should simply do a much better job at this :)
throwaway894345 5y ago
Agreed. There are a lot of people and companies that are very important in the tech world who espouse repugnant racial ideologies a few times per year as the prevalent political fashion demands. I'd like to not block half the tech world, but I'd also like to hide their sporadic, vapid, ideo-tribal signaling posts.

jacobr1 5y ago

> seems like you could throw some work toward figuring this out. They already have a start - they push following categories. So presumably they are categorizing individual tweets into these categories. It should be feasible to both provide finer-grain categories, and tooling to include/exclude how those intersect with those accounts one is following.

sanderjd 5y ago
Indeed. The final step is learning fine grained personal preference informed (but not entirely) by those coarser categories.
JasonFruit 5y ago
The link between categories and the tweets assigned to them is weak. I puzzled over a political tweet categorized under Science until I realized that it included the word "reaction". (Or something like that.) That's a frequent occurrence. I unfollowed categories.
- sanderjd 5y ago
  Oh yes, but they should simply do a much better job at this :)

throwaway894345 5y ago

Agreed. There are a lot of people and companies that are very important in the tech world who espouse repugnant racial ideologies a few times per year as the prevalent political fashion demands. I'd like to not block half the tech world, but I'd also like to hide their sporadic, vapid, ideo-tribal signaling posts.