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I don't mind at all Twitter throwing stuff at the wall to get more engagement. Just leave the option for its current users to turn it all off.

Otherwise they run the risk of annoying or driving away their strongest supporters in a failed attempt to get new ones.

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Agreed. Facebook's great sin isn't that they have an algorithm to serve the content they believe is the best, it's that they don't respect my decision to turn that off.

I've often wondered why Facebook doesn't let me white list my closest friends so that I see every one of their posts. It defeats the very purpose of Facebook. Know that I'd spend more time there if they did.

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