Twitter C/D

musk has been openly hostile to the algorithmic feed fwiw. he tells people to turn it off all the time.

Very important to fix your Twitter feed:

1. Tap home button.
2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.
3. Select “Latest tweets”.

You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize.

Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022

he's good again

"switch from home to latests tweets, should be a button at the top somewhere depending on where youre using it"

I actually change this quite often to see the differences - I wish Facebook had this

yeah the default is algorithmic timeline but to twitter's credit it is afaik the only social network to retain the option to go back to reverse chronological, and they've been clear they don't plan to remove that option.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:57 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

instagram has that option but people on the 'gram don't post nearly as much as people on the bird app, so if you go to recent posts, it's all media publications and celebs instead of people in your life.

so instagram's algorithmic feed makes sense to me, but it's still way too easy to miss posts

algorithms can be our friends

slave to the rithm would be a v dadpun but true album drop

I actually change this quite often to see the differences - I wish Facebook had this

Iirc, Facebook does have this, but (annoyingly) it defaults algorithm and makes you change it back to chronological each time you visit.

I do think it's cool that you can refresh your FB feed and get a new set of posts, in case you're bored or whatever. But yeah I've realized that of the 400 or so friends I've got on there I'm really only getting updates from like 50 of them. If you just don't interact with someone you will slowly stop seeing updates about them. But then if you get reminded of them somehow and click their profile you can see what they're up to. Amusingly this means that ILX people make up a decent chunk of my feed because y'all are the people whose stuff I'll like and comment most often

I use FB mostly from my desktop machine and my bookmark is specifically to the chron feed. (Also with FBP to block sponsored posts.) When I use FB on my phone it's always amazing/horrifying to see all the landfill and see the preferred stuff out of order.

Ahh yes, the weird star icon, not anything in settings, thank you!

they really don't want you to use latest tweets, but they also know they'll bleed even more money if they take it away

The fb feed really drives me crazy, I hate the refreshing because it makes it very difficult to find posts again that you've already seen. Unfortunately, with about 75% of my feed being promotional posts, I don't think there's really much room for improvement.

Yeah, whenever I try to find something I saw to show my wife she always says "why don't you save it?" or like it or whatever the fuck you're supposed to do, but damned if I'm going to interact with that site and give it any active data. It knows what I follow (same with Twitter) and that's about all it's going to get out of me.

FB knows what posts you pause on, and how long you pause there, they know what you click on afterwards - they know a lot of things

Yeah, that's fine. I consider that passive data. But I'm not going to actively provide them with data by pressing buttons and hitting likes and BS like that.

but what if that results in a worse feed rather than a better one?

I'm interested in the idea of how to optimize this, I've recently been annoyed with YouTube recommending stuff because I paused on something as I was scrolling through. I ended up with a lot of bullshit recommendations when there's only very specific stuff I want to be bothered with.

It definitely results in a worse feed, no question, but I just turn that to my advantage as an excuse to look at these sites less. I try to ignore the noise and search out the one thing I want to see at any given time, whether it's Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Youtube ...

Twitter is worth keeping for this account alone.

http://twitter.com/PH_Heathcliff60

Randomly selected Heathcliff cartoons paired with randomly selected PornHub comments.

pic.twitter.com/hDbEeJr5ft

— Hourly Pornhubbed Heathcliff (@PH_Heathcliff60) October 23, 2022

that basically sums up the appeal of all social media

the passive data is just as useful as likes or whatever because all of it is processed in aggregate, and pushes for more machine learning, data science, etc because likes and reposts are comparatively small data and pausing, reading, etc are big data pushing initiatives

So they're studying how much time I'm spending googling Facebook's stock dive?

you gotta hand out likes to reward people for making good posts

twitter should randomly go down a few hours a day. it’s help the chronically online have a cooling off period instead of tweeting through it

this is otm, the failwhale could be smiling beatifically while being hosed down

Time to find out what happens when I mute "Elon Musk"

Muted the word "Elon" early in the year, think it has worked out well, what's he up to these days anyway?

So, I cannot claim to know How Things Work, but wouldn't it be a bit rich, coming so close to that congressional testimony claiming Twitter's a security shit show, to ask people to start providing payment information?

not going well

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweets-link-to-conspiracy-theory-santa-monica-observer/

free and open debate

Starting to miss the old days when @jack would come on here like "Sorry about all the Nazis. I'm 11 days into a tantric fast" or whatever

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) October 30, 2022

Jack never did that, he would just completely ignore people mentioning it and tweet about bitcoin or some shit

re jack i find it sort of relatable to embrace your stupidity and check out further by subjecting your body to increasingly extreme tests of endurance

Do tell

Maybe instead of worrying about verification they should just tie the blue check to "does this person exit in Wikipedia"

although I guess the purpose is more to weed out fake accounts than :"is this person newsworthy"
but you have to be
1 who you say you are
2 newsworthy

right?

for 20$ a month

Do tell

― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, October 31, 2022 6:01 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm going to ask you once to never interact with me again.

lmao 45k likes, this is how Twitter should be used from now on

https://twitter.com/timheidecker

Twitter is working on a feature to allow people to post videos and then charge users to view them, with adult content as a possibility.

Mock ups of the new feature viewed by the Post resemble the OnlyFans model of locked content that users can pay to see https://t.co/XjpIw4BUVB

— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) November 2, 2022

xp: well what do we have here? looks like twitter's got it's very own version of Οὖτις now.

Well this isn’t looking promising. Can’t log into emails. Mac wont turn on.

But so grateful this is happening at 3am. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness on the timing front guys.

Meanwhile to everyone else at Twitter, you’re the best ❤️ #OneTeam pic.twitter.com/iWyAPeURcm

— Chris Younie (@ChrisYounie) November 4, 2022

the good news is that at least he'll have to start paying $8 a month for his blue check starting monday!

I just reported someone who literally said "I am an antisemite" and got an email back saying they hadn't broken Twitter's rules

Some things haven’t changed then

I’m gonna miss this place pic.twitter.com/L3Y0tGBKQR

— 𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕛𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕠𝕟 🛸 (@MrErikJackson) November 3, 2022

lol very nice

chaka khan tho

heh

and yes, it is true that Chaka Khan would’ve been the more correct answer pic.twitter.com/dUuBk7Rvua

— 𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕛𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕠𝕟 🛸 (@MrErikJackson) November 3, 2022

Twitter is being sued for conducting mass layoffs without giving the required 60-day notice

(via @business) pic.twitter.com/6f2nuQCUI7

— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) November 4, 2022

that Chris guy who worked on entertainment partnerships (idk asking them to twet?) has pictures with more famous people than Elon does. writing was probably on the wall

I can't wait to see Twitter die a death. It has brought nothing but misery to huge numbers of people.