Is Twitter’s ‘For You’ Column the Worst Thing Ever? Yes.

Just a few days in the past, my Twitter for Android utility began presenting me with a brand new UI. My feed is now break up up into two columns: For you and Following. Would you wish to take a guess on which one Twitter has determined to default for me? I’ll offer you a touch. It’s the tremendous f*cking lame choice.

The For you column is a mix of tweets you would possibly’ve missed from folks you comply with, in addition to tweets from accounts you don’t comply with. They are often suggestions based mostly on accounts you do comply with or from accounts which might be adopted by folks you comply with. It’s straight up Followception and as somebody who’s extremely choosy about who I comply with as a result of I merely don’t need to see 99.9% of the bullshit on that app, it’s fairly annoying that Twitter would decide to default on that column.

From the enterprise standpoint, I completely get it. Instagram and Fb does the very same factor, however guess what, what they do completely sucks too and nobody likes it. None of it’s based mostly on the founding idea of what these platforms are. I join the service, I determine who to comply with, after which I’m supplied a feed completely with these accounts with just a few advertisements sprinkled in. That’s the settlement. However no, these firms suppose they will are available in and begin shoving content material into my eyeballs that I didn’t signal as much as see. Do you sense my frustration but?

Right here’s one other challenge I’m working throughout with this idea. All day lengthy throughout a piece week, I’m Tweetdeck, most likely seeing about 95%+ of the tweets from the accounts I comply with. Clearly, these tweet views aren’t getting counted by no matter system Twitter is utilizing on its cellular app, so once I head again to the app and the primary column to pop up is For you, the app begins feeding me tweets that I’ve largely already seen. It’s once more, extremely annoying and admittedly a giant waste of time. For now, I’ve to open the app, click on on the Following column and go about my life. There’s at all times the nuclear choice, which really isn’t sounding all that dangerous proper now with the stacking pile of crap Twitter is doing to users (lol, paying for this nonsense) and 3rd-party devs.

As quickly as my soccer workforce’s season is over (hopefully with the Lombardi), I’m soooo out the mess that’s Twitter proper now.