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Twitter Enhancement Suite – BlockTheBlue
- manojlds 4y agoFeels like how people constantly talk about "the orange site" and how typical it is and what not and then continue to heavily use it.
- EngManagerIsMe 4y agoThe "Orange Hellsite." And Twitter is the "Blue Hellsite*". Both are bad, both still show up in my browser history. I don't know why.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoIf you'd like the "Orange Hellsite" to stop showing up in your browser history, enable "noprocrast" in your Orange Hellsite profile, then set maxvisit to 1 and minaway to 700 or something similarly large.
- EngManagerIsMe 4y agoNah. That only works if you are logged in. It's trivial to delete and account and make a new one. There's nothing particularly special about one's account (and, in fact, I regularly delete mine and create a new one so I don't get too attached to the 'number going up' on the karma.)
- thinkingemote 4y agoIndeed, twitter only benefits from people using it. Having more people use it to organise some kind of block-boycott on it will only help engagement. Ultimately it's a signal and one used by a tiny minority. It's a bit silly, if they hate twitter they should stop using it. nevertheless I approve of extensions allowing people to add functionality to sites. Now let's enable people to block toxic posts, porn, adverts, politics as well. Something more helpful to people.
- CM30 4y agoYeah, continuing to use a product you hate and complaining about it is not going to bring the types of changes you want.
- dymk 4y agoWhy is removing the bookmark button a feature? It’s effectively a private “likes” list. Filtering out all Elon and promoted tweets is a nice feature though.
- epistasis 4y agoAgreed. I think easier access to bookmarks is helpful. Knowing views is marginally helpful, I could live with or without it, but see no reason to remove it. A lot of these features are for those who want no change. Which I can understand, but the changes aren't as drastic as say, GMail's pointless UI churn.
- cheer_ 4y ago[dead]
- ajross 4y agoThis wreck will be studied in marketing courses for decades and decades. It's just amazing how badly this was played. Musk bought the company, immediately went to war against his biggest customers[1], then demanded that they all then pay him for a previously-free feature that... didn't actually do anything for the people who had it[2]. What did he think was going to happen? And the hilarious thing is that they're rolling it back now, by adding the blue check mark manually to "important" (or just popular) accounts that would be most subject to impersonation, essentially using it to mark "Twitter knows who this person is" as a signal to everyone else. Which is... exactly what the feature was for originally. [1] Journalists, pundits and havers-of-opinions. [2] At its core, the check mark is a feature for the rest of us, so we don't get scammed by reading imposter accounts.
- archsurface 4y agoThis wreck will be studied in marketing courses for decades and decades. Wait 'til you hear about Bud Light.
- nerdbert 4y agoBud light is as fine as it needs to be. They've been slowly losing market share for years, and that's built in to expectations. Now there's a localized drop in sales in a few areas which will fade away in a month or two as people move on to the next manufactured outrage, and it will return to its previous trend.
- nickthegreek 4y agoBudlight sent a few customized cans directly to an popular Influencer. They didn’t even put them in stores. Frankly, it just shows the idiocy of a portion of their customer base more than being a bad marketing campaign.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoStock’s up and has been going up since that sponsorship. Twitter lost half its value according to Elon of all people.
- trollied 4y agoApparently Twitter have given blue marks to the people that were involved in the movement behind this, so they get blocked by it. Amusing.
- suumcuique 4y agoHe should add a gifting option, pay to troll.
- willio58 4y agoBlocking Twitter blue users will be hard to do as Elon continue to force Twitter blue on high-follower accounts who refuse to pay for it themselves
- hezralig 4y agoDoesn't the API still disclose who is a legacy check vs who bought their check? I recall that being the case and seeing a browser addon that would udpdate the checkmark the last few times I used the bird site.
- ceejayoz 4y agoThat's gone now.
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoWe still have the list of legacy verified users. Off site. So it's technically possible.
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- willio58 4y agoSure but that would only work for users that existed with a blue checkmark last year. What about all the new creators and news sources? I get the intention of this, to try and claw back some usability of Twitter. I say let it be. Spend these dev hours working on a new platform or working on open source protocols so this type of mass takeover doesn't happen again on the whim of a billionaire.
- hezralig 4y agoI just checked and it isn't gone. The only thing changed is aesthetic / front end.
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- m3kw9 4y agoWhy? Because “I’m rebellious”?
- Dudelander 4y agoTwitter blue subscribers get boosted independent of the quality of the tweet, blocking them improves user experience.
- epistasis 4y agoThere are many many ways it improves my experience: * I don't care about high follower count tweets, I'm not there for viral tweets, or popular media or generally anything that there are 1M in the world even care about. I'm there for niche experts that can not be found anywhere else * I really don't care about reading the tweets of people who have to pay in order to get their opinion boosted. I do know severa people that have paid for Twitter for a long time, and would whitelist them. But otherwise, a blue check mark has become a very good signal for lower quality content that is likely to be some BS political propaganda I don't want in my life. I don't want NFT hustlers or get-rich-quick schemers rising to the top of any discussion. The whole "verification" scheme was always of minimal utility on the site, mostly for making sure that what you're reading from a notable person actually came from that person and not an imposter. That was the value for users. Now that it's gone, the blue check mark has no positive value to me, and in fact 99% of the discussion from blue check mark holders is pointless idiotic defense of their purchases which is a massive waste of everybody's time. I do not care, burn it all with fire so I can get rid of the noise.
- threeseed 4y agoTwitter Blue (a) artificially increases reach and (b) signals to others that you're part of their so-called movement i.e. you're someone who is partial to culture wars. If you're interested in non-political, high-quality content from those who are genuine about creating it then blocking Twitter Blue users is going to increase the overall signal to noise ratio.
- m3kw9 4y agoYou also gonna get bots as that was the intended purpose as it makes bot armies very expensive to keep, also to keep twitter afloat.
- jgalt212 4y agoI thought we all agreed that advertising was the enemy[1] of the web? It turns out that $8 monthly fees for egomaniacs is the enemy of the web. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/adver...
- WheatMillington 4y agoFor $8 you still get ads.
- omoikane 4y agoMost of the unwanted tweets and users go away for me by telling twitter to only show people I follow. Although annoyingly, twitter appears to reset that setting every so often. Another alternative is to make use of private lists, as recommended here: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
- suddenclarity 4y agoI haven't double checked but I believe it's cookie based. That's why some people don't have any issues and others complain about it being reset. They delete their cookies.
- omoikane 4y agoI have a dedicated browser profile for twitter and all the cookies are kept there, so I don't think it's cookies. My theory is that twitter want users to consciously opt out of algorithmic recommendations whenever they push a new UX change. The last one coincided with this: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/10/23549368/twitter-for-you-page-tiktok-following-tab https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/10/23549368/twitter-for-you-...
- suddenclarity 4y agoAlright, I thought "twitter appears to reset that setting every so often" was something that happened to you frequently. There was a bug with the new "For You page" when it was released a few months ago so it didn't save the settings. Musk tweeted about it and it was fixed within 1-2 days.
- KomoD 4y ago"• Filter out Tweets by Elon Musk as you scroll" What a useless feature, just block him?
- itsuka 4y agoI'm not sure if it has already been implemented, but I wish someone would implement a blocker for Twitter Blue that excludes legacy verified accounts and people you follow/on your list. We have the necessary data to implement this: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/b50d6745298cccd6b1f4697e4ec22103 https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/b50d6745298cccd6b1f4697e...
- Avshalom 4y agoprior to the api nerfing https://www.theblockbot.com/ https://www.theblockbot.com/ had a blocklist you could subscribe to that did that.
- HopenHeyHi 4y agoAhem. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649900776821518338 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649900776821518338