Twitter forcing algorithmic timeline with latest update - July 2019

To be honest, I've about given up on social media like FB and Twitter. FB has so much noise (politicis, arguing, etc etc) that it's useless to me for the most part. If not for a couple of clubs I belong to that have an FB presence, I'd never use it. Twitter isn't quite as annoying, but it's getting there. The top stories junk is just driving me away faster.
 
I have used Twitter for realtime weather information for some time now. The implementation of this is not good. I have NOT used FB for weather information of any kind in years. I will watch Twitter for a while and see how it goes. If Twitter wishes to keep this and not allow someone to set Tweets for chronological all the time, I will be deleting my account as well.
 
How the hell do you guys find these lists/groups? I'm literally the only chaser I know not on that damn list. Every search I've done on Twitter for weather/chasing groups only nets me lists of tweets with those words as hashtags. It's like CFDG all over again, except a generation later.
 
Been many years since i had a twitter account, actually a developer account.
Based on what James posted decided to give it try.
Not impressed. Too much junk.

I have to agree with Shane, I could really never figure out how to James' list into my list.
 
Another thing that is quite evident now is that Twitter is throttling views of off-platform links (Youtube, your web site, etc) just like Facebook does. Engagement on links for me has dropped to nearly nothing.

The problem is that even if you could permanently switch your own timeline back to reverse-chronological (or use Tweetdeck or other third party apps), most people on Twitter either don't know how to change theirs or won't bother, so everything you post is just going to increasingly go into the void aside from the users that regularly engage with your content. Exactly like the big engagement drop-offs I saw with Facebook several years ago that prompted me to ditch that platform and never go back.
 
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Dan Robinson said:
I removed my account this week, that's it for my involvement in social media.
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I don't blame you. I miss the days when forums were the gathering place, so if we can ever get even a part of that back I'll be happy. I hate Facebook with a passion and Twitter isn't much better.
 
Well, I have found a stop gap measure in the Twitter redesign (disaster) in TweetDeck. It goes in chronological order and updates tweets automatically. This can be gotten in either as a separate program or it will open in a tab in your browser.
 
Storm Track is on Discord. Great it is ALL weather, no politics or junk. Directions how to find Storm Track on Discord are in Storm Track Announcements.
 
Shane Adams said:
Twitter still hasn't added an 'EDIT" button 13 years in. I doubt any user pushback will deter them from their masterplan to ruin a once worthwhile platform.
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I don't think the lack of an "edit" feature is a bad thing. It forces people to proofread and double/triple check what they are about to post before posting it (it's not like you have to type a tweet blind). It keeps people from altering "the record" after the fact (as in, if someone takes flack for saying something years later, they can't go back and edit what they said to ruin the argument of the accuser). If you really need to edit a Tweet, however, you can just copy the original tweet's text, delete the tweet, then copy the old text into a new tweet and make the needed change.
 
I think the more annoying thing that Twitter does is show me likes/replies from people I don't follow (some of them for good reason) in my timeline like I didn't care to see any of the tweets from the 2000+ I *DO* follow.
 
Jeff Duda said:
I don't think the lack of an "edit" feature is a bad thing. It forces people to proofread and double/triple check what they are about to post before posting it (it's not like you have to type a tweet blind). It keeps people from altering "the record" after the fact (as in, if someone takes flack for saying something years later, they can't go back and edit what they said to ruin the argument of the accuser). If you really need to edit a Tweet, however, you can just copy the original tweet's text, delete the tweet, then copy the old text into a new tweet and make the needed change.
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The "edit" feature I've been complaining about isn't for "hiding evidence" purposes; that can be handled by "delete."

It would just be nice to not have to delete and rewrite an entire tweet because you missed a subtle typo. I proof read my stuff but I'm not a computer, so sometimes I miss stuff. IMO not offering an edit feature for the reason you mentioned is an almost elitist attitude.
 
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