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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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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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Speaking of unfollow, I'm pretty sure I've followed your account twice now - and it still hasn't stuck. I get the sense that Twitter has trigger conditions for that, too, but it could also just be a UI bug or something.

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Could be. I occasionally get weird connection issues.