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this does mean i occasionally miss out on totally innocent replies from people i happen not to follow which is sad, but 1) i sometimes check replies manually, and 2) if one of my follows interacts with such a reply then i do see *that*. tradeoff's worth it for me

i could not possibly have survived getting main character'd without this but i already had it enabled ages ago, i think the first time i went slightly viral if not earlier

also i have a custom chrome search engine that does a twitter search that displays all of my replies, the search is "-from:yourname to:yourname"

previous tweet about how to set up custom chrome search engines for twitter searches. huge upgrade to my ability to thread. i have a general search and then searches for specifically my tweets, visa's tweets, a few other people

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· May 18, 2020

you seriously will not understand how much better having custom search engines for tweets makes twitter until you use them long enough to search reflexively w/o thinking. in chrome go to settings -> manage search engines -> add, then add a search engine like this

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Jan 1

nice. most of you probably don't have uhh 90k fucking followers like aella does jeez but still

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@Aella_Girl

· Jan 1

bro turning off notifications from anybody i'm not following has both vastly increased the quality of feeling i have on twitter and reduced the amount of time i feel inclined to spend on twitter, thanks @QiaochuYuan for suggesting it

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New accounts? Ouch...I really don't know why it took so long for me to finally create a Twitter account...but I don't see how new people would be bad for your mental health 🥲

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also people who are struggling with dms should try closing theirs for a month. I struggled way more with lots of dm inbound than notif inbound bc I don’t feel an obligation to read notifs but I did to read dms Closed mine for a month and way easier after so kept it

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