Twitter tips - Tech Solvency

Tech Solvency / Twitter

This page is for general Twitter tips. For more information about my own Twitter presence, see this page.

Don't read your main following feed. Instead, create lists for specific topics of interest.
But do continue to follow - one of the main benefits of following is that Twitter will prioritize showing you replies from people you 'know' (follow)
To prevent auto-linkification of a domain, URL, or a string beginning with a special character (#, @, $), just insert a Zero-Width Joiner between the 'active' character and the rest of the string. Inserting one before the colon in URLs should do the trick.
Consider a Twitter de-escalation policy like Halvar Flake's .

You can force someone to unfollow you by temporarily blocking them, and then unblocking them.
I recommend grooming your follower list using the block-then-unblock method. Follower quality is a meaningful heuristic.
It's amazing how often the early replies to a popular tweet are from untrustworthy, bot, or SEO/"influencer" accounts. They do this to increase their reputation - sort of like the Twitter equivalent of SEO. Corollary: minimzing 'liking' replies from accounts you don't know.
Combat hate-speakers on Twitter with these tips (@chadloder)

I like TweetDeck, coupled with the Better TweetDeck browser extension.
You can identify likely bot and other untrustworthy accounts with Bot Sentinel (website, and also a browser extension)
To disable Twitter's automatic interests (bulk uncheck, save), paste this into your browser's web developer console (as a single string):
```
document.querySelectorAll(
        ".interest-label>input:checked"
        ).forEach(function(e){e.checked=0});
        
```
(hat tip: Ryan Castellucci)
I use automated tools (Twitter Block Chain, etc.) to block bots, and accounts that follow obvious bots. Because some people/orgs use automated following tools, there can be false positives. Twitter Block Chain's ability to function is a moving target, due to changes in Twitter's API thresholds, so YMMV.

I like the native Twitter app.
'Pin' lists to make them appear in 'tabbed' style across the top of your 'Home' view, and avoid your main feed.

(aka "The Follow Friday That Never Ended")