[kryptk]

Your experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with.

I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitter accounts are carefully curated by topic and their timelines are generally excellent.

[undfg]

This was true before Twitter decided to inject tweets from people you don't follow into your timeline.

[gnoll_of_gozag]

set to latest tweets instead of home and mute these phrases https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...

[serf]

it's a noble effort, but it misses the point.

altruistic view : if you fix their service on your end, it invalidates portions of their feature A/B test -- a weaker signal means that it'll be less likely that they remove whatever feature offended you / made the service worse.

pessimistic view : they won't stop being abusive to the user until the abuse shows up on their financial reports. Stop being a patron, they'll be forced to change their ways.

[angulardragon03]

Tweetdeck on desktop (as well as using private lists on their mobile app) provide excellent solutions to this problem.

[mingus88]

OP could be referring to the overwhelming impact of Trump on Twitter and his penchant toward bullying and violence.

I don't log into Twitter. I don't "surround myself" with any accounts. Yet, the platform is inescapably branded by their inability to police their own content and I could not avoid if even when I tried.

[Tenoke]

They are clearly talking about their personal experience and mostly parroting a cliche at any rate.

[dominotw]

> I don't log into Twitter. I don't "surround myself" with any accounts.

Then how are you observing " overwhelming impact of Trump on Twitter "