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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.

@ClaireBerlinski

Aug 21, 2018

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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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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Yeah, with that in particular I'm starting to wonder why I'm even on this platform. I could literally just bookmark a few profiles and check them. But unfortunately for me, I now have friends I keep in touch with through here.

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I used to love it - half an hour on here would usually leave me with insights and ideas I almost certainly wouldn't have otherwise stumbled across. I used to quite often read my entire timeline because it was worth it and I'd leave with a dozen browser tabs to read later.

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Now it may just be that I'm incredibly ignorant, so that level of value was achievable, but I find it interesting that the value for me has dropped so dramatically. I'm not sure that it's not, to some extent, inevitable - people only cover so many domains, after all.

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