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I don't understand why one would use this.

If I don't like particular twitter user, just unfollow or block that particular user.

If I don't like twitter as a platform, just quit using twitter.

I don't understand why one would block all blue user

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Because Twitter Blue users get promoted to the top of everyone’s feeds and comments, and historically they just aren’t very bright or clever on average. The end result is Twitter actively making my feed worse to satisfy the ego of people not funny enough to get to the top of feeds naturally.

I use this plugin and it rules, it’s purged thousands of the most annoying people from my feed without me having to lift a finger.

I don't use it, but it's working wonderfully by keeping self-absorbed dimwits from cluttering up Twitter/X.

Because:

a) Twitter Blue comments are always placed ahead of everyone else but yet their quality is almost always poor. Many popular threads will have nothing but emojis for the first few pages.

b) Alternatives like Threads don't yet have all of the features that Twitter has e.g. hashtags. This is preventing many users from migrating.

Worth pointing out that since Twitter started paying Blue users for their content this has gotten worse. They’re replying to everything, everywhere in the hopes of engagement and thus payout.

Blocking all of them feels heavy handed but honestly would make the site a lot better.

>engagement and thus payout.

can we also for a second talk about how much of a racket this is? "Give me 8 dollars so I can pay you more back" is a business model on the level of a Nigerian email scam, clearly for this to even make sense for Twitter the vast majority will never get any money out of this

People who pay to promote their tweets usually don't have much of value to contribute.

I dont have a Twitter account, so this would be useful to me for ocassional Twitter viewing.

Also, from what I have seen, a large majority of the top Twitter Blue replies are trashier than the unverified replies below, and the OP is not syndicated on Mastadon or whatever.

As others stated, people with low quality tweets can pay to shove them in your face. I would pay for Twitter if I could rate tweets and adjust my feed accordingly.

> I don't understand why one would block all blue user

Have you seen the kinds of posts those people, as a class, are leaving there?

It’s an imperfect spam filter, of course, but their replies clutter up the top replies of any popular tweet and are virtually never worth looking at (in general, if you can only get attention by paying for it, you’re probably not worth paying attention to). I’d probably use it if I was still on Twitter.

Twitter blue users are the lowest tier of content quality on the site. So blocking all of them in one fell swoop is efficient and good.

for me it's mostly that I don't want ads shoved into me, especially as the content often is conspiracy theories and hate

I just tried a theory I have on some of my recent twitter interactions. About 25% of the blue check people are retweeting nazi things. Like actual real Nazi things from actual real Nazis.

I don't know why that is the case, and my "study" only was on about 20 accounts, but I get fash vibes from blue people more often than not.

Edit: and Elon Musk is a pseudo-fascist and a coward and if I can do anything to get a nicer day AND piss him off it is really a win-win.

Can you give an example of "actual Nazi things"?

Actual Nazi things are not to be shared; no need to give it more reach.

Ok, I guess I’ll give one example: Musk’s attacks on the ADL.

Want more examples? Try this: go to twitter and look for some of the big name blue checks. You’ll see plenty of Nazi things in those accounts.

> Musk’s attacks on the ADL

Would you mind quoting? I'm trying to get an example.

Great replacement stuff. Non-whites cannot actually be western. That Hungarian billionaire finding something that might be ZOG. Race and IQ things directly taken from taking points of the pioneer foundation.

I have a prolific block list on Xitter. An automated tool to find and block the inherently blockworthy is welcome.

Here’s an extension of your second point:

If you’ve paid for Twitter I don’t care what you have to say.

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