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Looking at my feed it's all accounts I follow (and people they retweet). No politics except for the few politics accounts I've chosen to follow. No toxicity exc
by Tenoke 4y ago
Looking at my feed it's all accounts I follow (and people they retweet). No politics except for the few politics accounts I've chosen to follow. No toxicity except when I look for it.
As far as I can tell people are either exaggerating their experience or bad at curating since I doubt I'm getting a special version of their product.
- csours 4y agoDo you use an ad blocker or a non-default Twitter client? Those may be removing the items that everyone else sees.
- pwinnski 4y agoTwitter literally interrupts the normal feed with content you haven't chosen. Here, I'll load https://twitter.com https://twitter.com to see: 1. dog pic from someone I follow 2. ad ("Promoted") 3. Steve Martin playing a banjo while dressed as a penguin (I follow him) 4. a tweet from an account I don't follow, but a friend liked it 5. a tweet from an account a friend follows, but I don't 6. a tweet from an account a friend follows, but I don't 7. ad ("Promoted") 8. Section of "Who to follow" with three accounts 9. pic from someone I follow 10. a tweet from an account I don't follow, but a friend liked it 11 is an account I follow, and 12 is an ad, but that should be enough to demonstrate. Only three of the first ten items I saw were from accounts I chose to follow, so 70% of the content was supplied by twitter based on whatever they chose. 70%!
- emkemp 4y agoTry tweetdeck.twitter.com.
- firelinks 4y agoI currently use Tweetdeck and have been using it for a few years now. The experience is exactly the same.
- cpeterso 4y agoCheck out the Firefox add-on "Better Twitter". It has options to hide promoted tweets, retweets, tweets liked by others, “Trends for you”, “Who to follow”, and more. Twitter is pretty unusable in a web browser without this add-on. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-twitter-extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-twitte...
- razwall 4y agoSounds like you're using "Home" view. You can switch to "latest Tweets" view, which would eliminate 4, 5, 6, and 10 from your list.
- pwinnski 4y agoI don't care enough about twitter to actually solve the issue. I was just pointing out that people aren't lying or exaggerating.