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The experience is based on who you follow. Twitter builds a list of topics based on your activity and it never gets edited, so even if you unfollow someone, tha
by winternett 5y ago
The experience is based on who you follow. Twitter builds a list of topics based on your activity and it never gets edited, so even if you unfollow someone, that list still influences everything you see.
Algorithm development has been poor and really frustrating to users because if they even come across someone who followed the Kardashians (for example), they literally get spammed with that news for the life of their accounts, and Twitter's "mutewords" functionality has also not worked for many years, I can't tell if that is intentionally so or not.
- stevage 5y agoEh? Muting words works just fine ?
- winternett 5y agoOn your account perhaps, because you don't follow the same people I do... Not on my 2, and for many friends I know. Try muting "BTS" The (K-Pop group) as an example.
- rchaud 5y agoI think there's a minimum character count for mute to work. My mute list includes "NFT" and "NFTs" and yet plenty of tweets get through. However, other mute words that are longer and not acronyms, will be filtered out as requested.
- winternett 5y agogenerally that would indicate that the feature needs an update to address the issue... But it's rather convenient for the platform to not do that update if it circumvented their profit making interests, and the interests of the other paying entities (like corps and celebrities) that need to promote things that could be otherwise muted for the comfort of their entire user community. Sure, it's not always a conspiracy theory as someone will likely comment, but in this case, the evidence is clear as daylight.