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by pseudointellect 3603 days ago
"while you were away" nonsense? A feature that shows you popular tweets from only people you follow. How is that nonsense?
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douche 3603 days ago
There are people that would like Twitter to just be a straight-up, chronological feed of tweets from people that you follow.

I'd love it if the infinite scrolling shit went away and I could look at tweets by last hour, last 12 hours, last 24 hours, etc, and then paginate by day after that.

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tdkl 3603 days ago
He doesn't want to see it and there's no option to hide it. FB is also full of attention catching crap like that, it's all engineered.
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nostrebored 3603 days ago
You act like engineering things that most people like is a bad thing.

You're not going to please everyone. Even people who will like it a month down the line will hate it when you first roll out the change. And we should you have to support (|feature|!) different websites?

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tdkl 3603 days ago
> You act like engineering things that most people like is a bad thing.

Like or is being exploited based on genetical brain responses to like because of the result of the "quest for new information" ?

This behaviour is psychologically engineered to trigger more dopamine fueled hits and with it fueling site engagement.

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nostrebored 3603 days ago
Everything you like is based on brain responses. Fueling engagement with your product is only necessarily harmful if your product is harmful.

I hope you don't like music, movies, amusement park rides, love, etc., because I have some bad news for you.

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tomjen3 3603 days ago
Because thats my twitter feed. Really I don't follow more people than i can keep up with, so I want to read _all_ their tweets.

Which is apparently a usage pattern nobody at twitter gets.

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swasheck 3603 days ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This seems like a legitimate question.
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pseudointellect 3601 days ago
I'm being down-voted because I'm arguing for a feature that all-knowing "hackers" on here feel is hampering their user experience. Because they know what's best for every product they use. And everyone uses that product in the exact way they do so the product should be catered to only them.
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