2018.07.08 – Taking Control over Twitter

Just a casual Sunday

Twitter has been an outlet of Social Media that I have just given up on. The reason why is that so many people that I follow retweet a lot of stuff without any comments added. As a result, my feed is just 95% retweets with very little original content. For the most part, the only time I cared about Twitter is when I got push notifications from a very select few about their tweets or a DM on it. In the end, it became useless for me.

But yesterday noticed that Twitter allows one to block all retweets from a single user. The next thing I thought is someone must have an chrome extension or tool to do this. After a quick ‘let me google this’ I found LifeHacker had a javascript snippet to drop into the debugger to toggle this mode on for everyone you follow. Link to article.

This was a life changer for me. My twitter feed has slimmed down a lot. And while retweets with comments are still there – this was the exact behavior I wanted since I often like to see what people think of something they are sharing. You still get the x people have liked a tweet things – but compared to what my feed looked like before, this is now manageable. I have a feeling I will be using Twitter a lot more now.

And in other news – I never linked the following two galleries on my SFW site here and probably should:

Independence Day Fireworks in SF

 

Weekend Road Trip to Lava Beds