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I sometimes manually do this when I'm feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I'd disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to hav
by nevi-me 5y ago
I sometimes manually do this when I'm feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I'd disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to have a tool. I just tried it on a spam tweet, and only the author got blocked.
Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits.
Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn't ban the API use).
Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app's permission when done.
- adastra22 5y agoThe little heart button isn’t endorsement though. Lots of people use it as a bookmarking tool, or as a stochastic retweet button.
- sedatk 5y agoIt's endorsement as much RT is, as Twitter puts tweets liked by people you follow on your timeline. It serves as an amplification tool, not just personal interaction.
- adastra22 5y agoNot all people use the Twitter interface. I used Tweetbot for years and "like" has no effect in that app, as it has no algorithmic feed. Since there is no way to bookmark a tweet from that app, that's what I used the "like" button for. I'm not the only one either. Lots of people use Twitter this way, whether the Twitter devs intended for it to be used this way or not.
- sedatk 5y ago> Not all people use the Twitter interface If I had to make a guess, I'd say the overwhelming majority does, and the number of third-party client users is negligible.
- porker 5y agoUntil Twitter has an API to get the tweets I bookmark, this is exactly how I use the like button.
- pjc50 5y ago> stochastic retweet button. One of twitter's terrible design decisions. Because the "like" button causes a tweet to appear in the feeds of your followers who don't religiously use "home timeline" despite twitter's efforts to switch them to "top tweets", it is an endorsement and an amplification. It doesn't matter what your intent is, the effect is to put it in front of other people who don't want to see it.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoThe heart button means you liked that specific tweet, the follow button means you track that account. They shouldn't be treated as implicit endorsement. Endorsement of a specific tweet comes from a retweet; endorsement of an account comes from a tweet/retweet of yourself that explicitly states such endorsement. Why do people have to radicalize everything? Changing topics, megablocking seems like a really good idea to mass block bots manipulating trending topics, since Twitter won't do anything significant about them on its own.
- nevi-me 5y agoEndorsement/support/agreement. When applied on a tweet I consider to be vile, to me it means that the person retweeting/sharing it is amplifying that vile message. There's already a dedicated bookmark button.
- stewbrew 5y agoThere is no dedicated bookmark button. The Bookmark functionality is hidden under the share button. The Like-button maybe is one of the most misused features of twitter. People don't always use software the way some developers think it should be.
- kuu 5y agoThe like-button was the "favorite" button, they only changed it trying to imitate Facebook in 2015. Your favorites (as in your browser) were your tweets you liked to store because you enjoyed them. So no, the misuse doesn't come from the people but the forced/intended change by the devs.
- AnonymousPlanet 5y agoThere is no such thing as a dedicated bookmark button on twitter. At least not on my client. Twitter on the web or with their app is unusable for me. The only thing I have to find a tweet again is the star / heart button.
- babelfish 5y agoThen the problem is with your client, not with Twitter, because Twitter offers a way to save tweets.
- notreallyserio 5y agoIs that part of the official app? There isn't a way on their mobile site, except using browser bookmarks (of course). Edit: nevermind, I see it hidden in the site's share menu.
- hoten 5y agoWhere can you view a list of the tweets you've liked?
- dmitshur 5y agoGo to the desired Twitter profile, then switch to the Likes tab. Its URL will be something like https://twitter.com/{user}/likes https://twitter.com/{user}/likes.
- dmitshur 5y agoIt is also sometimes (probably quite rarely) an unintended misclick.
- anonymousab 5y agoI have found that my right thumb, when scrolling, will be directly over top of the vertical space that the like buttons move through. As such, accidental likes have been much more common for me than when I had a smaller device.
- ed25519FUUU 5y agoI’m actually afraid I’m going to click like on something and it’s going to come back and haunt my career for some god awful reason. So much so that I use a script to “unlike” everything after a few weeks.
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y agoSome people will block accounts that follow accounts they don't like. I specifically follow people I don't agree with so I am exposed to the dumb things they are saying. I'm not sure how many people have blocked me even though I barely tweet much. I'm pretty sure social media is simply a system to reinforce echo chambers and tribalism.
- mxmilkiib 5y agoI guess one could use an alt account for that.
- bhawks 5y agoThe solution to Twitter is more Twitter? Twitter was nearly dead pre Trump. They really need to retrospect the correlation between how toxic communication has become over the period of their return to relevancy.
- mxmilkiib 5y agoI don't use Twitter and sparsely use Facebook. The feature to switch accounts without logging out had existed in many social services for a while now. On a service having toxic elements; like, HN is toxic, to a lesser degree obv., and no I don't have the energy to actually expound on that. One direct example though is that I got a downvote for noting the reality of the situation; The problem was someone wanting to follow voices on Twitter they wouldn't normally follow but avoid being caught in an automated system like the one linked. Using another account is something people do for this. IDK, is this something where noting a fact is taken by another party as a demand (to use the platform and engage in this way of using it), let alone a suggestion?
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y agoYes. I see a lot of down votes on HN on perfectly reasonable, to myself, comments. People are up/down voting too much as a “like button”. HN is still far better since you really need to be down voted for the moment to get hidden. But I’m inclined to think that more accounts is ultimately a bad solution since you’re forced to pretend you’re part of the in group.
- codezero 5y agoIt's not petty, it's just controlling your inputs.
- lvoudour 5y agoWe should probably spend more time controlling our outputs than our inputs
- Sargos 5y agoIt's creating your own bubble. Not really a good thing for anyone who values a broad perspective of the world.
- panarky 5y agoYou can value a broad perspective of the world, and follow high-quality feeds of many perspectives. But when you find a low-quality feed, blocking the author and their entire ecosystem of promoters and sycophants is an effective method to increase your signal-to-noise ratio.
- TameAntelope 5y agoThe people who provide high-quality feeds will invariably be caught up in your block spree.
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- newaccount74 5y agoIf you want a broad perspective of the world, reading negative bullshit from angry twitter trolls is not going to help. It's just going to make you angry too.
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoHence... the blocking?
- soheil 5y agoI think blocking anyone who liked it also may be a bit harsh. Maybe "mute" them for a few days instead and if they're repeat bad actors then block.