To be honest, I don't really understand this meme of investors on twitter being universally bad or something one would want to mute out.<p>A well known investor on twitter actually did the 'follow, wait for follow back, then after some time unfollow' thing on me recently. When people do this, as a rule I unfollow them again when I notice, but for this person I actually didn't because they genuinely tweet interesting and useful things that I appreciate having in my feed!
Showing some example of particularly egregious thought leadership and maybe an animation of it being silenced would go a long way towards helping. I blocked twitter.com in a hosts file, so I can't see if it embeds any tweets.
It would be nice if it mentioned how it works as well as who it will be affecting.<p>Is it unfollowing these people, is it muting them, etc?<p>Clicking "continue with twitter" asks for a lot of stuff including "Mute, block, and report accounts for you.", "Follow and unfollow accounts for you.", and "Post and delete Tweets for you".
Looks like the list of investors is here: <a href="https://www.twitter.com/tomfme/lists/investors" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitter.com/tomfme/lists/investors</a>.<p>The Twitter list you use is configurable.<p>My one thought is you could probably move the usernames over to a file you could version control with the idea of accepting PRs.
Why not just use a block list[0]?<p>[0] <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2015/sharing-block-lists-to-help-make-twitter-safer.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2015/sharing-block-lists-to...</a>
Seems odd to include Ryan Hoover and Niv Dror.<p>Ryan Hoover is generally pretty innocuous and is also the founder of ProductHunt, something builders might want to hear about. And ShrugCap pretty much just makes fun of SV VC.
What we need is something to eliminate "Recommended For You" mentions.<p>After that, a Promoted Tweet muter would find wide appreciation (using uBO for that now).
Does twitter force you to follow people you don't want to hear from?<p>If I didn't want to hear from someone, wouldn't I not follow them in the first place?<p>What is the use case here?
> Blazing fast mute and unmute<p>It's a javascript program. It's not going to be blazing fast by any reasonable definition. Ironic that a program designed to filter out Silicon Valley bullshit has succumbed to Silicon Valley bullshit.