I have been baffled lately by the number of GOP politicians I see in my Twitter feed. There are few that I follow, but my feed lately has been dominated by the GOP politicians and the GOP organization complaining about Biden’s documents and Buttigieg’s computer failure grounding planes. I take the time to explain the misinformation in both positions, but I get tired of repeating myself.
This problem recently seems to have grown much more severe. I have an easy way to combat the frequency of tweets from those I don’t follow. You can use Twitter in chronological order or to prioritize top tweets. Chronological order will show you the tweets from those you follow in chronological order and other content will follow if you keep scrolling. I want to see the Tweets from the people I follow and not the tweets selected by Twitter’s algorithms. On your desktop, you should see a “star” symbol in the upper right-hand corner of the Twitter screen to change this setting.
I have trying to locate this adjustment on my phone (iOS) and have not been able to find it. Finally, I did a search and found that Musk has changed this feature. So, it wasn’t my imagination, Twitter has been modified for the iPhone and offers less control over what users view.
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