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IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You
- natdude 2y agoNewly released! Feedback would be great!
- nbittich 2y agoJust tried it, says it's fcked but I don't agree. There is zero political tweets on the feed analyzed, yet it says center left; it's basically just tech tweets.
- the_mitsuhiko 2y agoI’m not sure how that thing works and I haven’t tried it, but even my tech tweets on the feed are sometimes deeply political these days.
- nbittich 2y agoI've the maximum muted words (200), literally muted country names so maybe that's why my feed is clean ish. Wish there was no limit though, still get some ai stuff sometimes
- whoitwas 2y ago[flagged]
- mandelken 2y agoI keep getting an error “your file exceeds the maximum allowed size” or something. It’s a clip of 1:20 on iphone. I tried clipping it to 1 min but then it wouldn’t allow upload. I exported the clip to files and then uploaded but same error. How may I reduce the file size on my iPhone?
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- mthoms 2y agoThis is very cool. I'm curious about how you process the video feed; Do you stitch it back together as one long image and then perform OCR? Or just look at every N frames? I've been looking for an open source library that helps with taking a scrolling video and then stitching it into an image but I haven't had much luck.
- sureIy 2y agoMy X feed is FUBAR. My feed was tech-only. Real people publishing real stuff. Last year X started occasionally showing some random content like Reddit, I'd mark them as "not interesting" and move on. Since last month there's no tech content by tech people, there's exclusively junk worse than on Reddit's homepage. No amount of "not interesting" will fix it. Oh, there's porn now too. I stopped opening X altogether.
- dustingetz 2y agoi turned off the images, it’s under bandwidth saving settings but makes x much better and helps keep the alg away from memes also
- sunaookami 2y agoWhy not use the "Following" feed? You won't get any recommended content (besides ads without an adblocker) and only see stuff from people you follow. Side note: It's annoying how many tech people started posting their political hot takes since ~2016. I unfollowed everyone who tweeted about politics.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoDiscover feeds, if they try to be actually relevant to the user, can be a great tool for finding new people to follow and help keep the following feed fresh. I primarily follow artists on Twit-alikes and it’s how I once upon a time used it on Twitter and now use it on Bluesky. A discover feed that’s not adversarial isn’t strictly necessary but it’s a significant selling point.
- sunaookami 2y ago>I primarily follow artists on Twit-alikes and it’s how I once upon a time used it on Twitter and now use it on Bluesky. I still do this on Twitter and the "For You" feed works great.
- Yeul 2y agoMy brother is an artist and he's looking into an alternative to Insta. With the US going full into homophobia, Christianity and xenophobia it's time to divest from American social media.
- Gooblebrai 2y agoIs this analyzing the video with AI?
- Havoc 2y ago>Record and upload a 1-2 minute screen recording of you scrolling through your X/Twitter feed. Is that really the only way to get hold of someones feed? It's neat from a tech perspective & very AI...but seems rather cumbersome
- mingus88 2y agoWould you rather give a random 3rd party API access to your social media? Would you trust X to not leak more than just the first few pages of your feed? This way is clumsy but I appreciate that you have absolute control over what you are sharing.
- natdude 2y agoYeah I tried for a long time on this! Initially I attempted APIs - but they're locked down and you can't get access to user's feeds. Secondly, I tried a chrome extension, but these don't work on mobile devices (80% of social media users) so it was redundant (plus very brittle as it depended on specific DOM elements). Also, a lot of content is video/audio, which isn't well captured by static analysis. A video is a bit annoying to take, but yes, it was the only solution I found!
- arnvald 2y agoTo me the worst part is not even the feed (I can use “following” tab) but the replies. I often used to look at single threads to see replies there. Since they started prioritizing replies from premium users it turned into cesspool and I eventually stopped using X altogether
- matsemann 2y agoYup, so short-sighted. Probably boosted numbers when lots of trolls bought premium to be noticed (where their obnoxious replies normally would land in the bottom with no views), but in the end I got so tired of the hostile environment that I just stopped using it.
- threeseed 2y ago> started prioritizing replies from premium users And often non-premium users are simply flagged as spam and hidden. Which actually means that if Elon removes your blue checkmark (as happened recently with Asmongold) then it is akin to a shadowban.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoYou can change how replies are sorted for you via a button on the top right, but you have to change it every time you open some replies. The problem comes from the default sort order shown to everyone though, not just you as you're reading it.
- bjackman 2y agoI did the same, very quickly. I'm now on BlueSky and it's exactly like pre-Musk Twitter.
- egeozcan 2y agoBluesky doesn't have contact import yet (or I didn't see it). Are there any good lists for techie/nerd content? I really miss my old Twitter feed but most people I followed switched to Bluesky and it's a lot of manual work to find people again.
- haunter 2y agoI just don’t get why don’t people use the “following” tab. You only see people you follow, if they post things you don’t like unfollow them that’s all.
- that_guy_iain 2y agoBecause Twitter switches you a lot and even then you also have all the random notifications from people you don't follow.
- haunter 2y ago>Because Twitter switches you a lot What does that mean? Twiter doesn’t switch my tabs on its own, neither on desktop or mobile. >and even then you also have all the random notifications from people you don't follow. I only get notifications from people I don’t follow if someone likes my tweets or they reply
- that_guy_iain 2y agoI feel like you don't use Twitter that much then. Because they added the whole notifications about new posts feature a while back and it's not based on who you follow and I believe famously it's like that so Musk gets more views. And I feel like my tabs get changed on a somewhat frequent basis but I've stopped using it to really keep track.
- haunter 2y agoI use it all the time and I’ve never seen posts from people I don’t follow. Once again I only use the “following” tab
- sunaookami 2y agoThis is simply not true. Before Musk took over Twitter they constantly switched to the "For You" tab. Only after Musk bought it it was changed so the setting sticks. You can also change your notification settings to the old way (only people you follow, etc.).
- 028 2y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/twitter https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/twitter
- whoitwas 2y agoIf you're using X or any other social media, the answer is yes and so are you.
- medhir 2y agoIf you find your X feed is fucked, bluesky is right there and offers complete algorithm customization… the network effects aren’t as strong but at least there’s some options to better control the experience.
- CactusBlue 2y agoBsky does not fix any of the core problems with Twitter. It's still fundamentally a "town square" with algorithmic feeds that keep you engaged. It actively tries to transplant the culture of Twitter to itself, which is something that I don't wish to deal with at all.
- auniff 2y agoIt presents itself as a "town square" but because the platform has such strong behaviour in severing interactions between accounts, in practice it consists lots of isolated silos of users echoing the same views to each other ad infinitum. A forum like HN is much more of a town square because pretty much everyone sees the same content in every set of comments, with just one toggle ("showdead") to modify that.
- astrange 2y agoIt has totally optional algorithmic feeds, and the ones it does have don't work (they only show me spambots) so there's no motivation to use them.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoBluesky doesn't even have a following feed like twitter (where only posts by people you follow show up)
- medhir 2y agoyes it does…
- TiredOfLife 2y ago
- CactusBlue 2y agoI've had a particularly bad breakup with my ex-girlfriend who I met on Twitter (I was the one responsible for the falling out), and I had to delete my Twitter account for two reasons: 1. The open, "town-square" nature of Twitter meant that it was easy to run into each other again, and she was feeling uncomfortable sharing space with me. 2. This was taking a huge toll on my mental health at the time, because just being on Twitter (or any of the many Twitter clones, for that matter) was reminding me of my relationship with her, just because of how the algorithm worked. I still think Twitter provided value for me as a startup founder, for marketing and networking purposes. But It wasn't really matter of if it provided value or not; Twitter was driving me to death in the most literal sense of the word possible. To choose life, I chose to leave Twitter. As someone whose startup builds social platforms, I am extremely turned off by the idea of "public square" models for the internet, after these incidents. We shouldn't aim to get everyone into a single feed, where you are given a curated feed, designed to engage you for as long as possible for the whims of advertisers, as opposed to the utility of the users.
- polygon87 2y agoApologizes if this is insensitive, but was one of you blocking or muting the other an option? I’ve muted all my exes on IG.
- CactusBlue 2y agoWe did block each other mutually, but the world is a small place, and the algorithm works to ensure that the world is a small place, as you're usually only one or two degrees of separation away.
- eddieh 2y agoYes. Negatively. Not sure analysis is needed. Algorithmic feeds are fucked and impact you negatively. All of them! You have no real control over what you see, they're ephemeral, nobody has a shared experience, and that's _only a few_ things that are fucked.
- nenaoki 2y agoNice job. It should ignore ads imho, my top 2 "largest influences" were just ads. I mean, I guess we do influence ads via engagement or whatnot, but it's not as if I pay mind to an ad the way I pay mind to a post. My card: https://files.catbox.moe/t8rzlb.png https://files.catbox.moe/t8rzlb.png
- natdude 2y agoThanks, that's a good point - do you think some analysis of advertising would interest you? There may only be a couple of ads per 'sample' though, so maybe not enough to be interesting.
- nenaoki 2y agoI reckon it's mostly noise. An ad I saw three times in the sample was just an awful mobile game I don't deserve to be subject to ads about, and the other ad I saw twice was just based on my location.
- PixelForg 2y agoIt says that my feed is pretty fucked, but I only follow pixel and anime artists :) I unfollow anyone that posts anything other than art repeatedly, I guess it is an echo chamber of some sorts. https://files.catbox.moe/ehu9pc.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/ehu9pc.jpg
- natdude 2y agoOh interesting - thanks for the upload
- natdude 2y agoOh interesting - thanks for the upload. Ahh - its the N/A political diversity being seen as 'low' when a null should just have no impact on score. Thanks! Will work on a fix
- __rito__ 2y agoHappened for my feed as well. It had ZERO political content but showed me a fully red bar for lacking political diversity. It showed N/A%.
- fbcpck 2y agoSimilar results here (the vibes)! Explains why I it's hard for me to relate with the ongoing twitter / bluesky discussions https://files.catbox.moe/xy927n.png https://files.catbox.moe/xy927n.png
- natdude 2y agoWow nice! That's literally the best result I've seen yet!
- yomismoaqui 2y agoI made was tired of reading political crap from some accounts I follow and created a Chrome extension to filter them out. Just define topics you don't want to read about and the AI filter will hide them from your feed. Technically is just passing the text to Gemini Flash 1.5 with a simple prompt to detect if the tweet is from a forbidden topic. You can try it here: https://twitter.cercaapp.com https://twitter.cercaapp.com
- natdude 2y agoOh cool - its like anti-virus for your brain. AI firewall! haha
- sebmellen 2y agoYou saved me from having to make this. Thank you! Is the source available? Can this be ported to FireFox?
- KTibow 2y agoThere's a surprising number of extensions like this (see https://github.com/thomasj02/AiFilter https://github.com/thomasj02/AiFilter, https://unbaited.danielpetho.com/ https://unbaited.danielpetho.com/) although it seems most are Chrome-exclusive
- yomismoaqui 2y agoNo source available but the JS code for the extension should be readable on your extensions dir. I'm using MutationObserver to check for tweets appearing and then extract their texts and send them to the server. Server side code is just some Go to handle calls to Gemini Flash, auth, tracking quota usage... To be honest even the prompt used is quite simple, the fun part has been optimizing it using promptfoo for running the evals.
- sschueller 2y agoEveryone's x feed is FD. I don't not follow Elon yet his crap posts are littering the app when I open it. It's turned into his personal bullhorn of miss information and rage bating.
- egeozcan 2y agoIt's crazy how blatant it is. If you block him and his promoted bunch, you still get occasional fascist/racist bait on the feed. Following feed is also mostly dead because many people I followed left.
- electrondood 2y agoHe's either been radicalized by his own platform, or he's intentionally being provocative to drive engagement, to drive ad revenue. It's disgusting. The hypocrisy is absurd. Like telling everyone to go fuck themselves, and then hours later, pleading for users to post more positive content... or making a big show of being worried about using AI untruthfully, and then repeatedly posting AI-generating images smearing people he doesn't like. Pretending like no one had "free speech" until he bought the platform, and then selectively banning vocal dissent he doesn't like. He's a child. Such a waste.
- wsintra2022 2y agoHe may also have just had an in house AI running his socials for the last few years. Surprising not much discussion around that as a possibility.
- XorNot 2y agoWhy suggest AI when simply paying a social media manager for his twitter account would be a normal thing to have done at his level of wealth? Which is something he has obviously done with his grind-centric videogame accounts and actual livestreams of him not knowing how to play on those accounts?
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- ksec 2y agoAgain I use Twitter like RSS feeds where I put those people into my list, Hardware, Ruby, Software, Database, Economics etc. If you curate your own list and avoid politics it is mostly fine. I rarely or ever see any promotional tweets.
- iNic 2y agoI compared by "Following" tab and "For You" Tab and they got a pretty similar health score ~40%. It wasn't able to analyze the "political diversity" of the Following tab which I will take as a win lol. It seems like the "Vibe" Score was slightly better on the "Following" and the "Non-Violence" score slightly better on "For You". Political Leaning was Center-Left for "Following" and Center for "For You". My takeaways are as follows. First, I would take these with huge grains of salt. Second, the political leaning distribution is super weird, it is super polarized with a clear lack of "centrist" takes. Third, can someone please explain to me what "non-violence" is in this context (even the guy who only follows are got like 50% on violence??). Fourth, I wish the "vibe" section was expanded upon, my issue with the For You Page is that it hits the middle point of "slop" and "rage-bait" that lulls you into a passive doom-scrolling brain-emptying mooch. The "Vibe" here doesn't seem to capture that, and I can't really put my finger on what the difference is except for "I know it when I see it". Anyways. PS: You should probably install browser plug-ins that remove the for you page! PPS: You should probably switch to Bluesky.
- eska 2y agoI only have an X account so I can read tweets that are mentioned on the news or in blog posts. If I ever look at my timeline I see a bunch of AI generated thirst traps.
- _pdp_ 2y agoI don't need this tool to tell me how f*** Twitter has become. I already know that. It is mostly junk, highly politicised (how did they allow this to happen after the CA fiasco), and largely dysfunctional with pockets of interesting communities here and there. Not spending either money or time on it anymore.
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- natdude 2y agoUPDATE:: The uploading function was not working for a large number of users - this has now been fixed! (it was an issue with the callback URL not being set in the .env which meant file upload progress wasn't returned to the client). If you have attempted to use this previously without success, please retry - it should work fine now :)
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- electrondood 2y ago"For You" is an engine designed to provoke an emotional reaction (engagement) from you at any cost, to the detriment of your mental health. Mine was filled with people getting into fights, toxic right-wing misogyny, "karen calling the cops" videos, etc. Twitter has a perverse financial incentive to capture and hold your attention, and negative attention is far easier to provoke.
- templeOSdotcom 2y agoIsn't that the case for the vast majority of social media?
- matthewdgreen 2y agoIt's like the difference between Bacardi 151 and Michelob Ultra.
- peanut-walrus 2y agoScreen recording and processing because it's easier than just scraping now is wild.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoThis way you don't need to trust them with access to your phone.
- natdude 2y agohaha IKR!
- dymk 2y agoThe other option is to give a random website your Twitter username and password or install a browser extension.
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- chikere232 2y agoX, such a curious game, the only way to win is not to play
- msravi 2y agoI use X to mostly follow politics and some math/physics, and the political feed in the "For you" tab is remarkably balanced. I actually maintain two separate lists called "Left" and "Right" that I slot accounts into, and I just go to each list's feed to see what each side is saying about something. The "For you" tab has a mix, and overall has been pretty well balanced.
- naiv 2y agoSame. I follow more 'right' and see also balanced left. Thus I was wondering why people were always talking about hate and racism on x. Bluesky is a different story, there I exclusively see left wing content. Full of hate.
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- liontwist 2y agoWhen you’re used to hearing one thing….
- TacticalCoder 2y ago[dead]
- threeseed 2y agoIt really is unique to everyone and who they follow. But when the US election came around all of our business For You feeds switched to political, far-right content even though we are not in the US nor political. And the fact that the EU is investigating X for its algorithm changes means at least some other people have had the same experience.
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- jp57 2y agoIf I were to use this credulously, I'd be committing the same error as believing everything in my X feed. I have no idea who made this tool or what their biases are, why would I believe their analysis any more than I'd believe a stranger on X? I can't find any information on who is behind this. The different axes that they uses for analysis (health, political balance, "vibe', etc) are all inherently subjective. How are they measured?
- refulgentis 2y agoI very much doubt it even works or tries to, even though a lot of barriers have been lifted recently (I'm handwaving at https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/ x the input being just a video x output sold as rigorous deep analysis) I have a stroooong feeling this is just a wrapper around Gemini, as it has video input.
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- 2024user 2y ago1-2 min video doesn't feel sufficient. Alternatively, a few screenshots uploaded to chatgpt would give the same idea.
- natdude 2y agoFair - the video could be expanded to be way bigger (1000s of posts) I found 1-2 minutes was decent (30+ sample size on average), and a tradeoff for convenience. Background sampling would be ideal but privacy concerns and technical limitations (especially on mobile devices)
- hk1337 2y agoI don't know if I deleted my account or if logging in with Apple Sign In quit working.
- skywhopper 2y agoNot sure why anyone sane keeps using X. Bluesky has reached critical mass at this point and has proven its reliability under pressure, and has far better tools for managing your feed.
- bdangubic 2y agopeople are sheep :) they will believe that X was bought to usher a new are of “freedom of speech” so if most X users believe this (they do) why would they ever leave? going to bluesky is like leaving your own parents to go to foster parents
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- ldng 2y agoJust. Quit. It.
- Tepix 2y agoAnother dark pattern used by X that i haven't seen mentioned much: When you open a link in the webview, it doesn't show the icon to open it in your preferred browser. When you close it and open it again, the button is there. Clearly they are scared you'll leave and won't come back. That's also why they are downranking links.
- subjectsigma 2y agoIf you’re at all worried that your social media feeds from any one website are ruining your mental health, I would suggest just not using them period. Why risk it?
- courseofaction 2y agoIt is incredibly sad that the world's richest man was allowed to buy and trash a public square. Worse is coming. He cheats at video games, lies about it, and knee-jerk abuses his power over twitter to ban and personally attack people who point this out. America bought this shit, and now it's going to pay for it.
- crusty 2y agoThis sends like a great idea... for 2019. Unfortunately it's not 2019 and X isn't Twitter. Where's section that tells you what percentage of your feed is Elon spouting contemptible nonsense, non-Elons raging at Elon's contemptible nonsense, or the muffled whines of even other non-Elons as their contemptible reguritations of Elon's contemptible nonsense squeezes past Elon's sphincter?
- hoseja 2y agoX is U+1D54F (except on HN) you don't need to embed SVG in the title.
- natdude 2y agoOhhh, cheers - replacing it now
- _lvbh 2y agoToday was the first time i tapped into the "For you" feed since i made my twitter account. I only follow a dozen or so people, all of them singers and musicians from Japan. I am not American nor anywhere near America. The first bit of scrolling was relevant content from artists i follow on youtube but not twitter. Then suddenly all I saw were Elon Musk doing the Nazi pose. Wtf
- oglop 2y agolol. Imagine realizing in 2025 twitter is broken trash. If you think your feed worked before, you’re a fool and lying to yourself. Fools everywhere, as far the eye can see. Fools as CEOs. Fools as engineers. The amount of foolery in the world has reached meme levels and I love it. I love watching you turds scream and wretch. I love watching you be autistic. It puts money in my pocket and provides endless entertainment. When you know it’s not an honor society but just a lolz society it’s easy to make the big bucks on all these fools, and I love it. lol. Twitter is trash in 2025, you fuys crack me bulp