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Willing to put money to a prediction: 1. This decision will be reverted within 3 months after goes live, as they see engagement, therefore ad revenue will fall
by flockonus 4y ago
Willing to put money to a prediction:
1. This decision will be reverted within 3 months after goes live, as they see engagement, therefore ad revenue will fall flat
OR
2. Twitter is gone from lack of revenue / gets re-sold / becomes generic news site / etc.
The average twitterian won't effectively curate their own timeline, either can't or grew too depends of the algo, to make the Follow tab work sufficiently well.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y ago> The average twitterian won't effectively curate their own timeline Is it even possible to do that? I was under the impression that 'the timeline' (I assume you mean the "For You" feed) was an auto-generated feed that I have no control over.
- flockonus 4y agoI only figured their crappy new UI after a friend pointed out, turns out there is a "Following" tab-thing to the right side on the header, those are the chronological tweets of people you actually follow.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoOh yeah, I know about the two tabs — I wrote my own Chrome plugin to change the 'force for you' behaviour to 'force following'. I didn't realise that was what you meant by 'curate your timeline', though.
- anonymousab 4y agoIt still respects block lists and mutes, as far as I can tell. Though that may change as some twitter folks have mentioned how much of a burden that block lists supposedly place on the site.
- flockonus 4y agoThey just outsourced the algo now, which is interesting! Sure block lists are maintained, except on search it doesn't seem to be the case