Twitter’s ‘promoted’ tweets swamping my feed

Forums › Social networks, social media and tools › Twitter’s ‘promoted’ tweets swamping my feed

dafman

4054 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2652

Trusted

#284398 19-Apr-2021 18:59

Twitter is my only social network. Several months ago I decided to have a break for a while.

In the last couple of weeks I’ve re-fired up my account, only to find Twitter is now swamping my feed with promoted tweets. As fast as I can delete them, Twitter keep firing them back. It seems that every third or fourth tweet is now unwanted spam.

It never used to be like this.

Questions for other Twitter users

- have you also seen an exponential increase in spam tweets in recent months?

- is there anyway to stop these? (I’ve looked online and in Twitter settings but to no avail).

So before I permanently give up on Twitter for ever, is there anyway to permanently block these?

xpd

Geek of Coastguard
14116 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 4578

Retired Mod

ID Verified

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2694981 19-Apr-2021 19:17

Not really, I'm getting tweets semi-regularly from a band I follow as "sponsored" ones but apart from that seems clear.

XPD / Gavin

LinkTree

josephhinvest

1550 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 322

ID Verified

Trusted

#2694982 19-Apr-2021 19:18

How are you using Twitter? Perhaps a paid app will solve your problem. I use Tweetbot for iPhone. I have gladly bought the app several times over the past years. It shows no ads. It shows no promoted tweets. It shows tweets in chronological order with the newest at the top.
There’s a number of good apps out there, perhaps one will work better for you.

Cheers,
Joseph

lurker

838 posts

Ultimate Geek
+1 received by user: 223

Lifetime subscriber

#2694983 19-Apr-2021 19:23

Yeah on mobile an alternate app does the job nicely. I would like to use Twitter on PC but it's atrocious

richms

29099 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 10209

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2695006 19-Apr-2021 20:23

If you hide them, another will appear when you scroll.

Richard rich.ms

dafman

4054 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2652

Trusted

#2695008 19-Apr-2021 20:32

josephhinvest: How are you using Twitter? Perhaps a paid app will solve your problem. I use Tweetbot for iPhone. I have gladly bought the app several times over the past years. It shows no ads. It shows no promoted tweets. It shows tweets in chronological order with the newest at the top.
There’s a number of good apps out there, perhaps one will work better for you.

Cheers,
Joseph

Thanks, I have subscribed to Tweetbot on 7 day trial, will see how it goes.

dafman

4054 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2652

Trusted

#2696776 22-Apr-2021 18:10

josephhinvest: How are you using Twitter? Perhaps a paid app will solve your problem. I use Tweetbot for iPhone. I have gladly bought the app several times over the past years. It shows no ads. It shows no promoted tweets. It shows tweets in chronological order with the newest at the top.
There’s a number of good apps out there, perhaps one will work better for you.

Cheers,
Joseph

Thanks, Tweetbot saved my sanity!

I purchased a year for $12, but have got my money’s worth after two days of no-ads and no-promoted tweets (dished up every second or third tweet!).