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Comment by gnicholas | Hacker News Reader

Don't forget the part where they now show you tweets that people you follow have liked, just the same as if they had retweeted them.

I already unfollowed people who tweet/retweet too much for my liking, and now I have to unfollow people who 'like' things prolifically also? Ridiculous.

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> Don't forget the part where they now show you tweets that people you follow have liked, just the same as if they had retweeted them.

I rarely use twitter but the first time I saw these "person X liked this" I just looked up how to not get that. Turns out it's pretty simple, you just click on that tweet menu and select "I don't like this tweet", repeat for maybe one or two other tweets on your timeline, and then refresh your feed and they're all gone. People mentioned it can come back after a couple months, you'd notice quickly as your feed quality would suck, you just redo the same.

The only one I see now are "person X and Y liked Z tweet" but in that case I follow X, Y, and Z, so it's usually relevant.

Glad it works for some. I have not personally had luck with that trick, but maybe I've not done it enough times.

>>People mentioned it can come back after a couple months, you'd notice quickly as your feed quality would suck, you just redo the same.

Don't you feel like a rat in an experiment?

What's the point of this if you don't even own the controls to the software?

Rhetorical questions.

I follow mainly programmers and I love this feature. I always discover interesting tweets, which are useful for my job.

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