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It's strange, but my personal experience could hardly be more different. I mainly use it for work in the gaming sector and, to a smaller extent, tech. I occasio

It's strange, but my personal experience could hardly be more different. I mainly use it for work in the gaming sector and, to a smaller extent, tech. I occasionally see rage and strong opinions, but it's a very small minority. Most of the time, it's useful, informative content. I do hide trending topics, which I think helps, but even before I did, my experience was nowhere near as negative as yours.

dijit 5y ago
I see this exact exchange every thread about twitter. I’m not convinced “holding it wrong” is a good answer, but it seems to be that I and others are “holding it wrong”. I have 2 twitter accounts, I follow people who post interesting tech things. Then they retweet some more polarised stuff from others, or even if enough followers like a tweet it ends up in my feed. I would follow nobody if I unfollowed everyone who does this. The truth is that humans are varied and while they might have a hobby (tech) they also have opinions about society. It’s unfair not to assume that.
- oneeyedpigeon 5y ago
  > they retweet some more polarised stuff from others That's true, but: a) in my experience, those tweets are the vast minority of what I see, probably less than 1% b) I just ignore them This happens in real life too. I have friends with broadly similar outlooks who, from time-to-time, say something I don't agree with. Sometimes I'll choose to engage, and this is always more productive than engaging on Twitter in similar circumstances, I fully accept that. But I'll often just change the subject or otherwise ignore them, and I find that's a perfectly viable tactic on twitter too.
- numpad0 5y ago
  I have my Twitter accounts with 2k follow_ing_(not followers) and there should be literally 200-500 tweets/second that could fill my timeline during daytime. Of those, one or less shows up on Tweetdeck Web, and suspiciously little are relevant to my interest. I even missed a "meta" content of a past season and learned about from someone else very recently. I'm not getting anything. What I've been thinking about is there needs to be the 2020s great data exfiltration of social media, the second Googlebot Crawler moment. It has been three years since I've seen a hardcore user cry of "having limbs torn" by Twitter API changes[1] that shut down a free bulk access, and it still reads as vivid as if it was written today to me. 1: https://mizchi-hatenablog-com.translate.goog/entry/2018/08/24/060111?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ja https://mizchi-hatenablog-com.translate.goog/entry/2018/08/2... (I know MT don't do languages half right but I don't have energy to translate manually either)
  - Jcowell 5y ago
    Why not just make use of the list feature , or set the timeline into chronological Order, or use the topics feature ?
Mezzie 5y ago
So much of it depends on your professional bubble. I've got some wildly differing bubbles, and my uncurated/unlisted Twitter experience is sheer chaos. Professionally, tech and math are less filled with rage-bait, but Library Twitter is batshit insane, for example. And don't even get me started on if you write at all; writers on Twitter are a dumpster fire. My local Twitter (Twitter for my town) is delightful, Seattle Twitter was a shit show.

dijit 5y ago

I see this exact exchange every thread about twitter. I’m not convinced “holding it wrong” is a good answer, but it seems to be that I and others are “holding it wrong”. I have 2 twitter accounts, I follow people who post interesting tech things. Then they retweet some more polarised stuff from others, or even if enough followers like a tweet it ends up in my feed. I would follow nobody if I unfollowed everyone who does this. The truth is that humans are varied and while they might have a hobby (tech) they also have opinions about society. It’s unfair not to assume that.

oneeyedpigeon 5y ago
> they retweet some more polarised stuff from others That's true, but: a) in my experience, those tweets are the vast minority of what I see, probably less than 1% b) I just ignore them This happens in real life too. I have friends with broadly similar outlooks who, from time-to-time, say something I don't agree with. Sometimes I'll choose to engage, and this is always more productive than engaging on Twitter in similar circumstances, I fully accept that. But I'll often just change the subject or otherwise ignore them, and I find that's a perfectly viable tactic on twitter too.
numpad0 5y ago
I have my Twitter accounts with 2k follow_ing_(not followers) and there should be literally 200-500 tweets/second that could fill my timeline during daytime. Of those, one or less shows up on Tweetdeck Web, and suspiciously little are relevant to my interest. I even missed a "meta" content of a past season and learned about from someone else very recently. I'm not getting anything. What I've been thinking about is there needs to be the 2020s great data exfiltration of social media, the second Googlebot Crawler moment. It has been three years since I've seen a hardcore user cry of "having limbs torn" by Twitter API changes[1] that shut down a free bulk access, and it still reads as vivid as if it was written today to me. 1: https://mizchi-hatenablog-com.translate.goog/entry/2018/08/24/060111?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ja https://mizchi-hatenablog-com.translate.goog/entry/2018/08/2... (I know MT don't do languages half right but I don't have energy to translate manually either)
- Jcowell 5y ago
  Why not just make use of the list feature , or set the timeline into chronological Order, or use the topics feature ?

Mezzie 5y ago

So much of it depends on your professional bubble. I've got some wildly differing bubbles, and my uncurated/unlisted Twitter experience is sheer chaos. Professionally, tech and math are less filled with rage-bait, but Library Twitter is batshit insane, for example. And don't even get me started on if you write at all; writers on Twitter are a dumpster fire. My local Twitter (Twitter for my town) is delightful, Seattle Twitter was a shit show.