Unfollowing can simply mean a matter of managing one's time & attention. They could like one segment of your content but other content overwhelms. Blocking is a very different signal.
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Replying to @BobKerns
Yes, very true. Blocking is the strongest signal. Muting is pretty strong too, but not directly observable. Unfollowing is ambiguous.
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Replying to @generativist
So how are you observing the unfollows? I know my follow count fluctuates a bit. I suspect it's because they follow for one topic I comment on and find they are uninterested in my broader commentary, but I'd like a better sense of it.
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Replying to @BobKerns
Only implicitly. I actively visit profiles of people who either have recently said something I'm very interested it, or generally tweet stuff I enjoy. It's a bit much, but for the former I have a private list that I regularly add/drop from.
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Replying to @generativist
There really ought to be a tool that does that. I don't mean just detect the unfollows—I think there is a tool that does that. I mean, bypass Twitter's feed algorithm and check the content from people of your choice by criteria of your choice.
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Replying to @BobKerns
That's what I'm working on! :)
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Replying to @generativist @BobKerns
Bring your own algorithm, basically. It's much harder now though, since API changes killed off the user feed endpoint. But, most of my twitter interactions are subsequent to this weird backend I've cobbled together over the past year or two.
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Replying to @generativist
Yeah, I looked at reverse engineering Twitter's web app, but it didn't look like anything I'd like to maintain—as a personal hack at least. I've done some weird deep integrations in my day, but undocumented entry points often end up being headaches. And even Twitter's public APIs
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Replying to @BobKerns
Yea. Fundamentally, my whole fear and apprehension with building on twitter is that its mostly me building for them on sands that they freely shift.
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Replying to @generativist
I wonder if it might be more stable building on scraping their rendered content than their server endpoints? Of course, you have to scrape carefully, not depend on the wrong things. But the visible UI doesn't change much.
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I'm not sure. But both cases sure constrain what is possible :(
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