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by undfg 1808 days ago
This was true before Twitter decided to inject tweets from people you don't follow into your timeline.
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set to latest tweets instead of home and mute these phrases https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
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.

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