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Is it just me or is the suggested tweets at the end (that come after the thread) turned to absolute right wing madness? I don't have a log in, and saw, Elon tw

by roomey 4y ago

Is it just me or is the suggested tweets at the end (that come after the thread) turned to absolute right wing madness? I don't have a log in, and saw, Elon tweet, about 5 Andrew Tate tweets, anti trans, some sort of return to classism thing? Funny thread but holy hell I knew twitter was making sure there was always an Elon tweet or something but.... Like it's almost like a troll what is there now!

glitchc 4y ago
Didn't I say Twitter would turn into Parler 2.0? It's well on its way.
irrational 4y ago
It’s kind of weird that you saw those. I got to the end and saw “More Tweets” and left. I had to go back and scroll further down to even see what you were talking about.
- roomey 4y ago
  Well, I will also in future, lesson learned here. I guess I though the "more tweets" would have something related to the thread I was just looking at, they really didn't!
maxbond 4y ago
Soon after Musk took over, the tweets I received by email (which is how I primarily interacted with Twitter) started being stuffed with extreme right-wing stuff from people I definitely didn't subscribe to, like Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro. It completely changed the kind of content I was receiving from memes and interesting observations about technology from people I followed to pretty vile takes about the culture war topic of that particular day. I unsubscribed soon after. It ruined the product for me overnight. (I'll grant I was never really a Twitter user and didn't have friends or much a community there, I was a lurker. So it was an easier decision for me then for others.)
shiomiru 4y ago
Solution: use nitter. No suggested tweets, no bullshit, just the thread. https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915 https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915
fisherjeff 4y ago
Same exact experience here
starbase 4y ago
Doesn't look like right wing madness to me, though I don't tend to view the world through a political lens. "Suggested" tweets seem to be those with unusually high like counts (compared to the poster's usual numbers) in the last 24 hours. Here are the dozen or so it displayed while my coffee was brewing: * memorial for musician Ryuichi Sakamoto * memorial for a dog that protected children from attack * announcement that a football club has sacked one of its staff * photo of a huge rhododendron in bloom and the elderly lady who planted it * Tate saying he will resume communication via email * video of a large moose walking along a highway * photo French F1 drivers on strike (can't tell if real or AI) * photo of an F1 driver stretching * colorized photo of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s * physician's opinion of another physician's opinion on transgenderism * user expressing support for Italy's ban of lab grown meat, insects on pizza, and ChatGPT * list of keywords that caused old twitter algorithm to shadowban * colorized video of San Francisco a few days before the Great Earthquake Pretty benign stuff.
NickNameNick 4y ago
I got andrew tate, jordan peterson, and 'stopwoke'

by roomey 4y ago

glitchc 4y ago

Didn't I say Twitter would turn into Parler 2.0? It's well on its way.

irrational 4y ago

It’s kind of weird that you saw those. I got to the end and saw “More Tweets” and left. I had to go back and scroll further down to even see what you were talking about.

roomey 4y ago
Well, I will also in future, lesson learned here. I guess I though the "more tweets" would have something related to the thread I was just looking at, they really didn't!

maxbond 4y ago

Soon after Musk took over, the tweets I received by email (which is how I primarily interacted with Twitter) started being stuffed with extreme right-wing stuff from people I definitely didn't subscribe to, like Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro. It completely changed the kind of content I was receiving from memes and interesting observations about technology from people I followed to pretty vile takes about the culture war topic of that particular day. I unsubscribed soon after. It ruined the product for me overnight. (I'll grant I was never really a Twitter user and didn't have friends or much a community there, I was a lurker. So it was an easier decision for me then for others.)

shiomiru 4y ago

Solution: use nitter. No suggested tweets, no bullshit, just the thread. https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915 https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915

fisherjeff 4y ago

Same exact experience here

starbase 4y ago

Doesn't look like right wing madness to me, though I don't tend to view the world through a political lens. "Suggested" tweets seem to be those with unusually high like counts (compared to the poster's usual numbers) in the last 24 hours. Here are the dozen or so it displayed while my coffee was brewing: * memorial for musician Ryuichi Sakamoto * memorial for a dog that protected children from attack * announcement that a football club has sacked one of its staff * photo of a huge rhododendron in bloom and the elderly lady who planted it * Tate saying he will resume communication via email * video of a large moose walking along a highway * photo French F1 drivers on strike (can't tell if real or AI) * photo of an F1 driver stretching * colorized photo of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s * physician's opinion of another physician's opinion on transgenderism * user expressing support for Italy's ban of lab grown meat, insects on pizza, and ChatGPT * list of keywords that caused old twitter algorithm to shadowban * colorized video of San Francisco a few days before the Great Earthquake Pretty benign stuff.

NickNameNick 4y ago

I got andrew tate, jordan peterson, and 'stopwoke'