Hey Twitter, instead of a mute button, how about an adjustable volume knob?pic.twitter.com/Wt2i7sv96u
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This is one of my bigger frustrations with this site — high-volume tweeters who drown out low-volume tweeters. I genuinely enjoy following these people. They just talk too much. So I end up muting a lot of them. But I wish I didn't have to.
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I’ve often thought about writing my own client just so I could have this feature. Wouldn’t even need a client. Just make a separate account that retweets the people you’re interested in once they cross your threshold, and follow that aggregated account.
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haha, yes! (And meanwhile, it would pollute their feeds with retweet notifications ;)
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I’ve also hoped Twitter might give tweeters the opportunity to put things into categories/buckets/channels. I could tweet about a wide variety of topics, even mundane stuff, with the confidence that followers who are only interested in X will just deselect the other channels.
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Yeah that would be v cool.
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I use Tweetbot’s “mute for a week” or “for a month”: it gives me a break from them, then they show up again for a while, until I mute them again. But I agree with your suggestion.
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Ooh, didn't know Tweetbot had such a feature. I'm intrigued!...
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You can solve this either by turning the volume down or up. I have a Twitter list of people who I want to see more of - it’s a mix of friends, low volume / high value tweeters, and a few accounts I find highly interesting. It’s the leftmost column in my Tweetdeck
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Oh yeah! I used to do the exact same thing — a "faves" column, regular column, and "noisy" column. But then I stopped using Tweetdeck. Maybe I should get back to it?!
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I use Tweetdeck on desktop a few times per day, which lets me ‘catch up’ on my Friends column; on mobile I just let the noise wash over me and rely on algorithmic serendipity
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You can mute an account's retweets and see only their original tweets, which I find useful for a lot of high volume accounts.
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Good point! I do use this on occasion. Unfortunately I follow a number of high-volume accounts who mostly tweet their own content =/
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Other important setting: Disable "Show me the best Tweets first" (I treat twitter like email) Dilemma: How would you pick which tweets to see from a high vol acct? Based on likes/retweets? IOW let other people decide what's important? Isn't that what reddit is for?
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“Low volume” could be “only show his posts which have been liked by at least a following of mine”.
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That would be great. But the “quality” and other variables set by the user. As in, daily tweet limits, batch all at once & bn certain times, amount of engagement, engagement from certain accounts, etc
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This is valuable! Something that you could do today, is click on the caret options for a tweet and click “show less often”. This will give you the option of showing fewer tweets from the author!
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Butbthem on lists an only look up the list every so often
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Maybe it’s time for a digital detox?
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https://twitter.com/jonatanpallesen/status/953432607785615360?s=19 … Been saying the same thing
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