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What about repetitive tweets? I stopped following so many publications because they would post an article link, then repeatedly change the title or the catch and post the same link. Very frustrating.

The Economist, for one, has a "The Economist, Once" account that only tweets articles once, when they are published!

And yet I rarely ever see anything on my timeline from the 'Once' account, but plenty from the regular account, and not too many repeats. It seems the new curated timeline really hurts the post-once approach.

IIRC, that'd get the apps API access cut off.

But if you want to have fun, keep blocking promoted tweets. After a month or two, things get... "interesting" in terms of what you see. Well, at least entertaining.

Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12789001

Only one third party app receives Promoted Tweets, and no third party apps are required to display them.

I use Twidere, and don't think I've ever seen a promoted tweet.

All third party apps (except a single Enterprise tool) do not receive Promoted Tweets. They're only requested and displayed within the Twitter "Owned and Operated" clients.

I use Tweetbot on ios and I don't see promoted tweets