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“Although some platforms offer an ad-free experience for their premium users, most of them aren’t.” Aren’t what? Anyway, you don’t have to install an extensio

“Although some platforms offer an ad-free experience for their premium users, most of them aren’t.” Aren’t what? Anyway, you don’t have to install an extension to avoid “ads, promoted tweets, and sponsored posts” on Twitter. You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

tenebrisalietum 5y ago
... most of them aren't [offering an ad-free experience.] This is an English language phenomenon called conversational deletion. Examples of it at the beginning of sentences are here: https://learnenglishwithdemi.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/conversational-deletion/ https://learnenglishwithdemi.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/conver...
- leephillips 5y ago
  No, it’s not, and the examples on the page you link to are examples of something else entirely. The subject here is “some platforms” and is not deleted.
  - lelandfe 5y ago
    Although some platforms offer an ad-free experience for their premium users, most don’t. “Are not” was also a bit awkward at the end. It was still intelligible, though.
  - tenebrisalietum 5y ago
    I'm not sure how you can't extrapolate from what I posted and see how conversational deletion can apply to the end of sentences?
    - leephillips 5y ago
      It has nothing to do with where in the sentence the deletion is. It has to do with what is deleted. “I like spicy food but my girlfriend doesn’t [like spicy food].” This is correct deletion, at the end. “I like spicy food but my girlfriend isn’t.” This is what the illiterates who made the website are doing. It’s not conversational deletion, it’s just wrong. EDIT: Also, and more to the point, “conversational deletion”, as defined in the link you provided, is the deletion of the subject of the sentence. This is not what is happening here, as I pointed out. Again, nothing to do with whether the deletion is at the beginning or the end.
- tiahura 5y ago
  The problem is that the deleted verb (offering) isn’t parallelly conjugated to “offer” so it seems awkward. I would change it to “most of them don’t.”
CharlesW 5y ago
> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ Great resource, thanks for linking!
- leephillips 5y ago
  You’re welcome; hope you find it useful.
dewey 5y ago
> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ The same thing could just be achieved by using Tweetbot or another third party client, you can just follow the people as usual and it'll be a regular sorted timeline with no ads and suggestions or promoted tweets.
sundarurfriend 5y ago
This is great! By chance, I came across this post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SzArJNSbbSikJeLD4/how-to-best-use-twitter https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SzArJNSbbSikJeLD4/how-to-bes... yesterday, which also gives very similar advice; lists seem to be the core of using Twitter sensibly. And he suggests Tweetdeck as the interface to Twitter too.
- leephillips 5y ago
  Thanks for the link. I added it to my page.

tenebrisalietum 5y ago

... most of them aren't [offering an ad-free experience.] This is an English language phenomenon called conversational deletion. Examples of it at the beginning of sentences are here: https://learnenglishwithdemi.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/conversational-deletion/ https://learnenglishwithdemi.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/conver...

leephillips 5y ago
No, it’s not, and the examples on the page you link to are examples of something else entirely. The subject here is “some platforms” and is not deleted.
- lelandfe 5y ago
  Although some platforms offer an ad-free experience for their premium users, most don’t. “Are not” was also a bit awkward at the end. It was still intelligible, though.
- tenebrisalietum 5y ago
  I'm not sure how you can't extrapolate from what I posted and see how conversational deletion can apply to the end of sentences?
  - leephillips 5y ago
    It has nothing to do with where in the sentence the deletion is. It has to do with what is deleted. “I like spicy food but my girlfriend doesn’t [like spicy food].” This is correct deletion, at the end. “I like spicy food but my girlfriend isn’t.” This is what the illiterates who made the website are doing. It’s not conversational deletion, it’s just wrong. EDIT: Also, and more to the point, “conversational deletion”, as defined in the link you provided, is the deletion of the subject of the sentence. This is not what is happening here, as I pointed out. Again, nothing to do with whether the deletion is at the beginning or the end.
tiahura 5y ago
The problem is that the deleted verb (offering) isn’t parallelly conjugated to “offer” so it seems awkward. I would change it to “most of them don’t.”

CharlesW 5y ago

> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ Great resource, thanks for linking!

leephillips 5y ago
You’re welcome; hope you find it useful.

dewey 5y ago

> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ The same thing could just be achieved by using Tweetbot or another third party client, you can just follow the people as usual and it'll be a regular sorted timeline with no ads and suggestions or promoted tweets.

sundarurfriend 5y ago

This is great! By chance, I came across this post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SzArJNSbbSikJeLD4/how-to-best-use-twitter https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SzArJNSbbSikJeLD4/how-to-bes... yesterday, which also gives very similar advice; lists seem to be the core of using Twitter sensibly. And he suggests Tweetdeck as the interface to Twitter too.

leephillips 5y ago
Thanks for the link. I added it to my page.