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I just don’t get why don’t people use the “following” tab. You only see people you follow, if they post things you don’t like unfollow them that’s all.

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Because Twitter switches you a lot and even then you also have all the random notifications from people you don't follow.

>Because Twitter switches you a lot

What does that mean? Twiter doesn’t switch my tabs on its own, neither on desktop or mobile.

>and even then you also have all the random notifications from people you don't follow.

I only get notifications from people I don’t follow if someone likes my tweets or they reply

I feel like you don't use Twitter that much then. Because they added the whole notifications about new posts feature a while back and it's not based on who you follow and I believe famously it's like that so Musk gets more views. And I feel like my tabs get changed on a somewhat frequent basis but I've stopped using it to really keep track.

I use it all the time and I’ve never seen posts from people I don’t follow. Once again I only use the “following” tab

This is simply not true. Before Musk took over Twitter they constantly switched to the "For You" tab. Only after Musk bought it it was changed so the setting sticks. You can also change your notification settings to the old way (only people you follow, etc.).

I think you need to readvise what "simply not true" means. I gave my experience and for you someone who doesn't even know me cannot say what is or is not true about my experiences.

It's not an opinion. It was like that (Twitter), now it's not (X).

He's telling you your experience is outdated.

> It's not an opinion. It was like that (Twitter), now it's not (X).

????????????

> He's telling you your experience is outdated.

No, they said what I said was simply not true.

And my experience is from using the new stuff. There may be technical reasons why it wasn't sticky however in my experience it wasn't as sticky as it should be and I ended up on the crappy feed all the time.

Old twitter switched you all the time. I even used a plugin to switch me back.

I've never knew been switched since the acquisition.

during the old twitter times you could use a third party client, that was the trick

Old twitter for me was tweetdeck - pure time based posts of followed & lists.

That experience no longer exists.

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