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I don't find it more pleasant in the slightest. I follow the people I want to follow because they write things I want to read. What does Twitter do? Send me people's likes & retweets of viral tweets, because people occasionally write "fuck", "idiot" & so on. I don't want this.

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Claire Berlinski.

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It is dangerous, yes, for once I agree with Trump. But he's missing the point. The notable thing isn't the banned accounts. It's the change in algorithms that's made Twitter so much more pleasant recently. uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa

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Read something offensive, from someone you don't think will contribute anything useful? Block 'em. Targeted harassment/scams/ToS breaches? Report 'em (a function Twitter still hasn't made to work properly, at all). I don't care what Twitter thinks I should see. Fuck Twitter.

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Much appreciated, friend. But this is very much so a case of something Twitter should program into user preferences. If other people want to view audited Twitter, that's fine by me. But I don't.

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There are definitely some odd things going on; some of the people I find most interesting are rarely on my timeline any more. I'm increasingly having to manually go and periodically check what people have been up to, presumably missing a lot of stuff.

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People don't seem to be following anywhere near so readily any more, either, apart from fairly high profile accounts with a focus on popular topics. There's a gradual homogenisation that's reduced the value significantly for me.

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I had to unfollow a number of semi-interesting accounts because twitter started flooding my feed with US political "commentary" and self-justified anger of various social issues; masking a lot of interesting intellectual conversation for which I use this thing.

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As I said a bit later in this thread, Twitter doesn't seem to be doing this out of a rational motive. Unless it's being forced to use more invasive methods to function as an active intelligence asset. The whole "fighting fake news" narrative certainly fits the latter bill.

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