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Twitter 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 s
by pwinnski 4y ago
Twitter 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.