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I noticed that if you do that they start injecting the same stuff into your profile notifications. They really want to feed you stuff you don't actually want.
by nkozyra 5y ago
I noticed that if you do that they start injecting the same stuff into your profile notifications.
They really want to feed you stuff you don't actually want.
- wpietri 5y agoYou can train it not to do that. When I saw those in my notifications, I kept picking the option that is something like "see less like this" and I haven't seen one in months. But yes, they are optimizing for things like UAM and engagement, so to them almost anything that draws people back looks like a good product choice.
- kjkjadksj 5y agoIsn’t it ridiculous that you have to thoroughly vet people you are to follow for quality tweets, switch out of the default view, and train a machine learning algorithm just to make twitter somewhat useable? Thats not like using a computer tool, thats like trying to ride a stubborn horse.
- wpietri 5y agoYeah, I don't like it. But I recognize that a) my needs are different than most, and b) we are all caught up in a capitalist system where incentives for exploitation abound. So if I can get by with a few tweaks, I'm ok with it.
- jacquesm 5y agoI just disabled all of the keywords one by one. It took some time but at the end of that it was very quiet. No more sponsored tweets either.