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They are actively trying to make it difficult use Twitter like that. They measure that 15 mins of your in a day and every test they run shows by showing you meaningless latest dramas, making you angry and write sarcastic bits triples your engagement and time spent on the site. The value spent to you, the real value, doesn't mean anything, it works directly against their financial interest. Stay strong :)

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"showing you meaningless latest dramas, making you angry and write sarcastic bits triples your engagement and time spent on the site."

I don't know if Twitter is following the media's lead or if the media is following Twitter's lead. Probably both. Paying attention to neither has been a positive in my life.

All of the main social media platforms at this point have exactly the same set of skewed incentives (i.e. attention maximizing instead of value generating). I sense some sort of massive opportunity around campaign the formula but not the exact way forward yet.

> They are actively trying to make it difficult use Twitter like that.

Not true. Twitter switched to a default "we'll sort tweets for you" a year or two back, with a switch box to temporarily change it back to chronological sorting (this is similar to the Facebook feed). After outcry, they changed it so that it sticks with whichever sorting method you choose.

> After outcry, they changed it so that it sticks with whichever sorting method you choose.

It doesn't do this for me. It automatically switches back to "top" mode if I haven't used it in several days, or seemingly whenever I'm logged out.

Edit: actually, it looks like you're wrong. Take a look at this screenshot I just took - the automatic switching back seems to be an intended feature: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbeFHFSZW58kf8AocrZXkJRYw8...

Interesting. I guess it's been a while since I've not used it for >24 hours, as mine has not switched from chronological in months.

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