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Everyone has their own ideas of what would save twitter or make it stop sucking. For me: * Let me opt out of all recommendations. I only want to see tweets of
by gernb 4y ago
Everyone has their own ideas of what would save twitter or make it stop sucking.
For me:
* Let me opt out of all recommendations. I only want to see tweets of people I follow or tags I follow. Nothing else. I'll find more people to follow via the people I follow. Do not post random popular news, people, related stuff in my feed, period.
* Let me choose the types of tweets I see. Personally I want to see zero of (@person liked, @person replied to, ...)
* Remove the 280 character limit (but possibly only show the first N characters in the feed). I don't personally believe the 280 character limit is important to twitter's success. Twitter's difference from most other places is that people are talking from their account, in public. It's one giant flat public forum. It is not FB (friends and family) and it is not Reddit (moderated sub forums). That alone is it's strength. All the 280 character thing does is amplify hyperbole as there is on room for nuance.
I'm sure Musk has his own ideas (no censorship?) but as for me, I won't personally use twitter without the changes above. I have an account, I check about once a month or less. I see lots of the stuff above and quit. It's like having a pushy salesperson following you around and constantly recommending stuff. Rather than more sales I'd just leave for another store.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI agree with all but the 280 character limit.
- rtkwe 4y ago> * Let me choose the types of tweets I see. Personally I want to see zero of (@person liked, @person replied to, ...) or even better make that a whitelist or blacklist option. There are some people who retweet way too much but others I'm perfectly happy to see them from.
- YATA2 4y ago
- belval 4y ago> The term "blacklist" arose from "black book" almost 100 years prior. "Black book" does not appear to have any etymology or sources that support ties to race, instead coming from the 1400s referring "to a list of people who had committed crimes or fallen out of favor with leaders" and popularized by King Henry VIII's literal usage of a book bound in black.[16] Others also note the prevalence of positive and negative connotations to "white" and "black" in the bible, predating attributions to skin tone and slavery.[17] It wasn't until the 1960s Black Power movement that "Black" became a widespread word to refer to one's race as a person of color in America[18] (alternate to African-American) lending itself to the argument that the negative connotation behind "black" and "blacklist" both predate attribution to race. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(computing)
- j_4 4y agoYou can already do this for retweets. First option under 3 dots on someone's profile.
- rtkwe 4y agoHuh neat thanks. Wish you could do the same for lists too. Lists are nice ways to follow people you don't always want to see but still want easy access to.
- guelo 4y ago> Let me opt out of all recommendations click the "Latest Tweets" icon at the top right of the feed.
- crossroadsguy 4y agoIt reverts back.
- wyclif 4y agoYou should be able to permanently set it to "Latest." I've been complaining about that forever, it seems.
- jen729w 4y agoI still see the garbage in the right-sidebar. Currently they believe I give half a shit about Johnny Depp. I do not.
- dubswithus 4y agoThe problem with Twitter isn't that it isn't efficient enough or the features aren't configured correctly. It's not that exciting to the average person and never will become popular like Facebook or TikTok. Twitter could be described as: 1) Following influencers like on Instagram -- but no cool, sexy, beautiful pictures and very boring. 2) Infinite scrolling like TikTok -- but it's boring three word text replies instead of in your face video. 3) It has leading news stories featured at the top of the feed like Facebook -- but none of your friends are on Twitter and you can't engage them negatively or positively. Only a certain type of person is going to spend a lot of time on Twitter. That person is a minority.
- headsoup 4y agoEvidence? Twitter still seems pretty popular without all that extra flashy trash...
- dubswithus 4y agoEvidence? They aren't profitable and most Americans don't use Twitter. https://nypost.com/2019/04/24/twitter-doesnt-reflect-how-most-americans-think-study/ https://nypost.com/2019/04/24/twitter-doesnt-reflect-how-mos... > About 22 percent of Americans use Twitter. And roughly 10 percent of those users are responsible for 80 percent of tweets
- headsoup 4y agoThat was a study of ~3000 people. They also excluded products, institutions and international (obviously) users. Not really representative of Twitter considering a decent part of its interactions are businesses and institutions engaging with the public... And ~70 million US users is not exactly nothing.
- zebraflask 4y agoThe word I'm seeing repeated here is "boring," but that also brings up a point about where Twitter works well: niche audiences. Especially ones that aren't necessarily interested in photos or short videos you look at once then forget. Or in the amount of work it takes to make said photos and videos as an entry fee to be visible on a platform. Journalism comes to mind, and with it, politics (of any persuasion). The writer's side of Twitter is also very active, maybe like you'd expect - writers, of course, gravitate to the written word. Twitter does have its audiences that other platforms don't cater to very effectively.
- foverzar 4y agoYou've just described Telegram.
- nradov 4y agoYou can use Facebook as a flat public forum if you want to. It works fine for that (and even allows for nuance), although most users restrict most of their posts to friends.
- philistine 4y ago>* Let me opt out of all recommendations. I only want to see tweets of people I follow or tags I follow. Nothing else. I'll find more people to follow via the people I follow. Do not post random popular news, people, related stuff in my feed, period. Any third-party app will do that. I find it fascinating that people are using Twitter with anything but a paid third-party app.