Remove Retweets From Your Blindfolded Twitter Timeline
In the April issue, writer The Atlantic claims that “retweets are rubbish.” If one day, if you wanted to repeat something else that was said on the platform, you had to create a completely new tweet and add “RT” in front of it, the addition of a retweet button made it so that people would often share the thoughts of others without fully thinking about these. approval. There is now a new tool that can actually do this, called Blindfold .
“Retweets not = approval” are written in several profiles on the site, suggesting that just because the person chooses to spread the person’s message does not mean they agree with it. This begs the argument, why retweet it at all?
Retweets are certainly useful sometimes, but a quick search through my timeline seems to support the Atlantic argument, most of them reinforce someone’s garbage stance on the topic or spread the same news headline that 100 more people I follow are trying to spread. … Maybe they should leave.
The principle of the blindfold is quite simple. You simply authorize this using your Twitter account. When you do, you will select the Hide Retweets or Show Retweets button.
When you click the Hide button, you will no longer see retweets from other users on your timeline. The service runs on Twitter itself, so you can install it and forget it. There is no need to re-authorize the app or go to any dedicated site to see an optimized version of your Twitter timeline.
The tool removes retweets, but only those posted with the retweet button. So, if someone you follow retweets the story but also includes their own comment above it, you will see it. It also only works online, so you’ll still see retweets when you pull out your smartphone.
I’ve been trying this for a few days now and it’s actually quite … nice. I didn’t quite understand how much noise was filling my timeline, and it’s really nice to streamline things and go back to just seeing tweets and comments from people I chose to follow.