Would be interesting if Twitter had a way to mute or reduce feed prominence for accounts that like particular tweets. As a reader, it would make it much easier to dial down the otherwise-overexpressed outrage resonant mode.
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One frontier we haven't yet fully explored, but will, is to inhibit folks that dominate the conversation. They *do not like* being conversation limited though, and will complain.. a lot.. about it.
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Me apologizing from bar: Sorry
@patrickc, Please forgive me and my friends! Me whispering privately: Hey@mijustin &@ianlandsman, shhh, there are people in the lounge trying to talk! Me apologizing, again: Sorry,@patrickc, it won't happen, again! Can we buy you a drink? -
Haha. Ironic! I assumed that Ian and I were the intellectuals in the lounge, carrying on provocative discourse, while the rowdy people in the bar keep yelling “C’mon guyz! Just tweet fun stuff!” at us.

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There is no place in the entire real-world where civilized, enlightening conversations occur in the same bar with bar brawls going on in another room. You need a different bar, with a different set of incentives, that attracts a different group of people.
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How did you come to this conclusion? Based on my experience, this is *most* bars, not 'none in the entire real-world'
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I started muting lazy retweets a year or two ago and it’s made my timeline actually usable. All you do is add “RT @“ to the muted words list. Retweets with comments still come through, which feels like a reasonable trade off.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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its perfect the way it is. it resembles a bar atmosphere. nothing has to be changed
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Much more craic over here Patrick.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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