Tag: twitter

• February 12, 2020

  Twelve on Twitter

  Twit­ter helped learn a lot of things despite aggres­sive­ly push­ing its pref­er­ences at times. This post is my trib­ute to Twit­ter. Read more

• July 31, 2019

  Turning off top Tweets on twitter.com

  The first thing I noticed with Twitter.com’s redesign is that the algo­rith­mic time­line (aka top Tweets) is set as the default. A few days ago I wast­ed some time look­ing to change this set­ting in the More > Set­tings and pri­va­cy page. I could­n’t find it there. I then googled, but still could­n’t find the answer. I googled again today… Read more

• March 24, 2019

  Twitter’s half-truth about its app settings

  Bill Ben­nett, a local tech­nol­o­gy jour­nal­ist I respect, tweet­ed a CNN Busi­ness arti­cle about Twit­ter’s overzeal­ous algo­rithm. That arti­cle quot­ed a Twit­ter spokesper­son: … We will con­tin­ue to work to improve our efforts here, and peo­ple always have the option of turn­ing off our cura­tion if they just want to see con­tent from the peo­ple they fol­low. This quote is… Read more

• March 4, 2019

  Twitter is changing my timeline preferences

  Recent­ly I wrote about how I reduced the noise on my Twit­ter time­line by chang­ing the default time­line pref­er­ence from top tweets to the lat­est tweets. Since then I noticed that from time to time my time­line pref­er­ence is falling back to top tweets with­out my inter­ven­tion. But I was­n’t total­ly sure because I did not think Twit­ter may be… Read more

• February 22, 2019

  How to declutter your Twitter timeline

  I recent­ly changed my Twit­ter iPhone app from Tweet­bot 3 to the default Twit­ter iOS app. Twit­ter for iOS app is large­ly good. But I noticed that my Twit­ter time­line both in the brows­er and iPhone app got noisy than they should be for the fifty peo­ple I fol­low. This is mak­ing me spend (not waste) more time… Read more

• February 12, 2018

  Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

  Do you remem­ber when you joined Twit­ter? I do! This month, ten years ago! I am cel­e­brat­ing by blog­ging about it 😀 Read more

• February 15, 2016

  Hide media in tweets

  Twit­ter embeds are cool, just like every­thing else on WordPress.com. You just paste the link to a tweet and the edi­tor auto-mag­i­cal­ly embeds the twit­ter card. While this is great, WordPress.com does a bit more that I don’t like: it also includes the images in the tweet. I don’t like it because the image increas­es the size of the twit­ter card.… Read more

• January 7, 2016

  There are no finish lines

  I chanced upon a great quote today. There are no fin­ish lines. It made pre­fect sense. This is some­thing I keep in my mind with every­thing I do. My rela­tion­ships, friend­ships, habits, and prin­ci­ples are all for my life. There are no fin­ish lines. In the oth­er news, I tried to keep qui­et in Twit­ter and Face­book but I soon real­ized… Read more