{"id":6610,"date":"2023-01-18T09:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2023-01-18T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:54:31","slug":"using-twitter-after-all-the-good-apps-were-killed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/using-twitter-after-all-the-good-apps-were-killed-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Twitter after all the good apps were killed off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What are you using Twitter for these days, and how has your experience changed on here changed over the last six weeks?<\/p>&mdash; Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annehelen\/status\/1615546104241885186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I only post to Twitter now using <a href=\"https:\/\/tweetdeck.twitter.com\/\">Tweetdeck<\/a> on a computer. Killing Tweetbot means I no longer look at it on any mobile device (phone\/iPad). I took the Twitter Lists I already follow and added them to <a href=\"https:\/\/read.readwise.io\/\">Readwise&#8217;s Reader<\/a> and read them like I would any other RSS feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The value of Twitter (for me) has been the ability to create lists of people for interests I have (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/lists\/228490926\">Destiny 2 <\/a>video game, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/lists\/1353455511627300864\">Capitals Hockey<\/a>, local news accounts). I have a timeline of some accounts but in some ways those aren&#8217;t the most important people I follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never used apps that show timelines out of order. I&#8217;ve long said that would be the end of Twitter for me if I had to suffer through ads and recommended junk. Twitter is skating very close to that sun. But I&#8217;ve been here since 2006 and that&#8217;s a weird point of pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tweetdeck, despite being owned by Twitter, has largely been forgotten. It never got the algorithmic timelines, ads, polling, or really any new features in years. Each time I was prompted to reload it because a <em>new version was available<\/em> I held my breath to see if this was the end of my enjoyment of it. But it&#8217;s allowed me to largely ignore everything that drove me from other platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I have to fight with the timeline to see what Twitter wants me to see, I&#8217;m gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If my timeline becomes riddled with ads, and ads for absolute garbage, as I&#8217;ve seen others share, I&#8217;m gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killing off third party Twitter apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/official\/en_us\/topics\/product\/2018\/investing-in-the-best-twitter-experience-for-you.html\">not for the first time<\/a>, stopped my Twitter usage from mobile devices in a single day. I won&#8217;t use the official apps because it forces a non-chronological timeline and tries to recommend people or tweets to follow to drive engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am as engaged as I want to be and pulling a Facebook and trying to drive outrage will drive me completely off the platform. Twitter is not anything I need in life. But it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve grown fond of, despite all of its issues. But when Twitter starts actively being a pain to use, it gets relegated to RSS since the communities I follow are still largely on Twitter because <em>that&#8217;s where everyone is.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only post to Twitter now using Tweetdeck on a computer. Killing Tweetbot means I no longer look at it on any mobile device (phone\/iPad). I took the Twitter Lists I already follow and added them to Readwise&#8217;s Reader and read them like I would any other RSS feed. The value of Twitter (for me) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}