[the_gipsy]

I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough people did that...

[insin]

There is a longstanding Tweak New Twitter bug (forgot to add a case clause to a switch statement) which someone finally found this week and submitted a PR for, which was accidentally causing all promoted tweets to be hidden. Handing my programmer card in as we type.

[pornel]

Enough people did that once, and then Twitter changed blocking to ignore that. I've used a blocklist of top-500 advertisers that was making rounds, and it stopped working after a while.

You can't win with a platform on the platform's turf.

[the_gipsy]

You are right, it would just get stomped down. Either by detecting that the block was automated, or because it stems from a promoted tweet.

The only winning move is not to play the game. Or play a game that you can own.

[plushpuffin]

Blocking accounts still prevents them from showing you promoted tweets. I think the only thing that stopped working was the ability to share and subscribe to block lists.

[collinvandyck76]

I tried that for a long time. The exercise got old after a while.

[thomond]

Am I the only person this works for?