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devtesla wrote

This article rules.

There's a couple good reasons for follower and following counts, like it tells you about how someone uses twitter and it's useful to know. But yea, how many likes and rt a tweet has? Useless lol. It's all an engagement hack to keep you on the app instead of doing something else.

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

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Moonside OP wrote

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

Actually I went and got a custom CSS Chrome extension and got rid of almost all number silliness with these settings on my desktop computer:

.ProfileTweet-actionCount {
  opacity: 0;
}

div.module.Trends.trends {
  opacity: 0;
}

.ProfileCardStats {
  opacity: 0;
}

Needless to say, this rules. Twitter just feels like relaxed spa now.

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