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You could unfollow the people who spam you with unwanted posts. I find strictly chronological feeds to increase the control I have over what I see by not priori
by NineStarPoint 4y ago
You could unfollow the people who spam you with unwanted posts. I find strictly chronological feeds to increase the control I have over what I see by not prioritizing the more popular posts of those I follow. It also makes it much easier to say “I’ve caught up to where I was last time, good time to stop scrolling”. (Parts of a website that center around discovering new content do need curation for the reason you mentioned, but content discovery is to me not the primary purpose of twitter style sites)
Chronological presentation is less useful for serving advertisements though, so I don’t expect it to show up very often.
- jeffbee 4y agoI also do not understand the theory that the order of presentation is necessitated by advertising. Adverts are inserted into the 2nd position regardless of how the feed is ordered.
- baggy_trough 4y agoIt's more like the social network can use the algorithm to surface clickbait or whatever drives their metrics.
- jeffbee 4y agoYou're discussing some hypothetical. Actual Twitter just sells the 2nd position in the feed for targeted adverts. That's it. Nothing fancy.
- baggy_trough 4y agoIncorrect. Twitter has been pushing its ghastly “Home” on those who prefer “Latest Tweets” for a while.