Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits. Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn't ban the API use).
Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app's permission when done.
There's already a dedicated bookmark button.
The Like-button maybe is one of the most misused features of twitter. People don't always use software the way some developers think it should be.
So no, the misuse doesn't come from the people but the forced/intended change by the devs.
Edit: nevermind, I see it hidden in the site's share menu.
I have for years been using the like button as a bookmark tool, and I probably will keep doing so. Old habits are hard to break.
I'm pretty sure social media is simply a system to reinforce echo chambers and tribalism.
Twitter was nearly dead pre Trump. They really need to retrospect the correlation between how toxic communication has become over the period of their return to relevancy.
The feature to switch accounts without logging out had existed in many social services for a while now.
On a service having toxic elements; like, HN is toxic, to a lesser degree obv., and no I don't have the energy to actually expound on that.
One direct example though is that I got a downvote for noting the reality of the situation;
The problem was someone wanting to follow voices on Twitter they wouldn't normally follow but avoid being caught in an automated system like the one linked. Using another account is something people do for this.
IDK, is this something where noting a fact is taken by another party as a demand (to use the platform and engage in this way of using it), let alone a suggestion?
HN is still far better since you really need to be down voted for the moment to get hidden.
But I’m inclined to think that more accounts is ultimately a bad solution since you’re forced to pretend you’re part of the in group.
Having multiple persona's as a way to hack around the typical omnibus recommendation of content is a pretty good solution. Obviously it would be better if social media sites gave us a little more control.
Firefox containers could make this process pretty easy, actually. Go to twitter, right click on twitters tab, "open in container". It will switch you to your alt, just like that.
I use this for separating personal youtube from work youtube.
I'm not the only one either. Lots of people use Twitter this way, whether the Twitter devs intended for it to be used this way or not.
If I had to make a guess, I'd say the overwhelming majority does, and the number of third-party client users is negligible.
One of twitter's terrible design decisions.
Because the "like" button causes a tweet to appear in the feeds of your followers who don't religiously use "home timeline" despite twitter's efforts to switch them to "top tweets", it is an endorsement and an amplification. It doesn't matter what your intent is, the effect is to put it in front of other people who don't want to see it.
Why do people have to radicalize everything?
Changing topics, megablocking seems like a really good idea to mass block bots manipulating trending topics, since Twitter won't do anything significant about them on its own.
But when you find a low-quality feed, blocking the author and their entire ecosystem of promoters and sycophants is an effective method to increase your signal-to-noise ratio.