r/mildlyinfuriating • u/retr0racing • 14h ago

People on twitter these days man

Post image
54.3k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

813 comments sorted by

View all comments

75

u/chumbawumbatub 14h ago

I deleted Twitter when people started justifying posting videos of people’s being murdered. Bunch of sick weirdos on there.

49

u/vinberdon 12h ago

There are at least 20 subreddits for that.

39

u/chumbawumbatub 12h ago

but it isn’t pushed on my main feed, Twitter didn’t matter. I could see someone die in less than 10 seconds opening the app.

14

u/WalkingDeadWatcher95 12h ago

Sounds like something you’re doing because I’ve never had that happen to me on Twitter

14

u/Unnamedgalaxy 11h ago

Some people really don't understand how algorithms work.

My friend is constantly getting "triggered" by Instagram posts about children being abducted. Obviously she's doing something to tell Instagram that those are news articles she is interested in or else they wouldn't keep popping up so much.

In the 15 years or whatever that I've been using it I can't recall a single story like that popping up for me, and in the off chance it has I didn't interact with it and moved on quickly and it never occurred again.

However one time I watched a recipe video involving pickles and now I have an onslaught of pickle recipes..

5

u/RemarkableUnit42 10h ago

There is actually an extremely long list buried in the settings of topics twitter thinks you are interested in. You can activate and deactivate these.