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> Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use In what way? Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? I use th

> Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use In what way? Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? I use the browser and/or the iPad app and don’t find anything unusable about it. What am I missing in my ignorant bliss?

dragonwriter 4y ago
> Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? My understanding is that the significant accounts tend not to use the official apps / web interface, one of the biggest reasons being so that they can track accounts for reading purposes without providing what the algorithm treats as a positive endorsement of them, and so that they can use the signal boosting effect of “following” selectively and separately.
- paulcole 4y ago
  Interesting idea but it doesn’t really support: > Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use So some celebs, journalists, and the overwhelming minority of users have to use a burner or browse incognito?
  - albedoa 4y ago
    Alright, why don't you tell us why people use Tweetbot.
    - paulcole 4y ago
      Why would I do that? Someone said Twitter was essentially unusable without Tweetbot. As someone who finds Twitter very usable without Tweetbot, I asked, “Why?” Someone else said that a very small number of people have a very specific use case that makes Tweetbot better than the Twitter apps/website. I said that was a neat example but doesn’t really apply to many people.
WillPostForFood 4y ago
How do you find your last read tweet? How do you move from phone to desktop and pick up reading where you left off? It's like, not impossible to write a novel on a typewriter, or on a pad of paper. Writers have proven that for hundreds of years. But when you snatch someone's word processor, and tell them to get the selectic out of the closet from now on, it is pretty damn annoying.
- paulcole 4y ago
  > How do you find your last read tweet? I’m not too worried about it. I just read what it shows me when I open the app or go to the site. If I’ve seen it before, I keep scrolling. When I lose interest I stop.

dragonwriter 4y ago

> Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? My understanding is that the significant accounts tend not to use the official apps / web interface, one of the biggest reasons being so that they can track accounts for reading purposes without providing what the algorithm treats as a positive endorsement of them, and so that they can use the signal boosting effect of “following” selectively and separately.

paulcole 4y ago
Interesting idea but it doesn’t really support: > Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use So some celebs, journalists, and the overwhelming minority of users have to use a burner or browse incognito?
- albedoa 4y ago
  Alright, why don't you tell us why people use Tweetbot.
  - paulcole 4y ago
    Why would I do that? Someone said Twitter was essentially unusable without Tweetbot. As someone who finds Twitter very usable without Tweetbot, I asked, “Why?” Someone else said that a very small number of people have a very specific use case that makes Tweetbot better than the Twitter apps/website. I said that was a neat example but doesn’t really apply to many people.

WillPostForFood 4y ago

How do you find your last read tweet? How do you move from phone to desktop and pick up reading where you left off? It's like, not impossible to write a novel on a typewriter, or on a pad of paper. Writers have proven that for hundreds of years. But when you snatch someone's word processor, and tell them to get the selectic out of the closet from now on, it is pretty damn annoying.

paulcole 4y ago
> How do you find your last read tweet? I’m not too worried about it. I just read what it shows me when I open the app or go to the site. If I’ve seen it before, I keep scrolling. When I lose interest I stop.