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by mgiannopoulos 1177 days ago
This still exists as the Following tab and viewing it is a persistent option. You don’t need to see the algorithm feed (“For You”) ever.
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Roughly one in every four to five tweets in the “following” feed is a “promoted” tweet, at least on mobile.

20-25% noise isn’t a great ratio for something that I ostensibly curate.

"promoted" tweets are ads, just like you would see on almost any website you don’t pay for.