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Twitterrific no longer working might be the last straw for me with Twitter. I can't continue to use it if there's no way to get a non-algorithmic timeline where
by kethinov 4y ago
Twitterrific no longer working might be the last straw for me with Twitter. I can't continue to use it if there's no way to get a non-algorithmic timeline where I can read every tweet starting from the oldest not yet seen allowing me to scroll up to the most recent.
I've seen other non-algorithmic clients but none have the simple, elegant interface of Twitterrific. It was the only way I could see everything from accounts I follow. Without being able to do that easily, the service is useless to me.
- zirgs 4y agoI'm using Fritter on Android. It allows to follow people without an account and shows tweets in a chronological order.
- app4soft 4y agoShitter[0] app for Android also is a good lightweight client. [0] https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter/releases/tag/3.0.1 https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter/releases/tag/3.0.1
- WithinReason 4y agoI use the Feedbro RSS reader which can subscribe to twitter accounts as RSS feeds. It gives you what you want: Every unread post highlighted for each account, and you don't even need a twitter account. The Nitter fronted supports RSS feeds directly so you can use any RSS reader, and never need to even connect to twitter.com. For example this is Carmack's RSS feed: https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/rss https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/rss
- IronWolve 4y agoRSS is awesome to take back control. I used RSS in facebook and youtube to get unfiltered timeline views. I used RSS with IFTTT to scrape sites to create feeds. Works great, but the time to add each RSS was the only downside. Was easier to write a loop script to feed it a list and have it grab rss feeds for each user. Podcasts are just rss feeds too.
- kethinov 4y agoThanks for the recommendation. I just tried it out. Nitter + an RSS app like Vienna is a neat solution for replacing Twitterrific on desktop. The UX isn't as good, particularly with quote tweets just showing up as links instead of embedded in context. Also I had to write a quick browser hack so if I open a tweet from the RSS reader to Nitter it will make it so there is a link to the original Tweet from Nitter so I can actually interact with the tweet (like, reply, etc). But it works, it lets me see things chronologically, and it tracks which are read and unread. Thanks!
- WithinReason 4y agoFeedbro shows the tweet quoted as well. It's also the best RSS reader I've found.
- kethinov 4y agoHave you run into problems with nitter.net rate-limiting you? I added about 60 subscriptions and they frequently don't load. I suspect I'm probably overusing the service... Edit: looks like this could be a good solution: https://twiiit.com https://twiiit.com
- WithinReason 4y agoI also use this add-on that redirects you to a random Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... You might need to manually remove the ones that don't work. It's still better than using the Twitter website :)
- kethinov 4y agoFor sure. This setup is hacky as hell but it works well, so I'm sticking with it. :)
- sharatvir 4y agoI’m able to do (almost) that with the web client. The “following” tab is just tweets from people I follow, with the latest ones first. No “you might like” or “x liked” posts show up there for me.