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| title | slug | publishDate | lastmod | tags | description | |
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| Twitter tips and tricks I'm reasonably sure I came up with but I kinda wish more people should use | twitter-tips | 2022-10-11T21:00:00.000Z | 2022-10-14T21:00:00.000Z |
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Warning: Those are kinda involved and features characters you won't find on your keyboard. If you're too lazy to fetch them from a random website I don't blame you I guess |
1. How to evade bots and algorithmic censorship
Use Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and you'll be none the wiser.
Example: 𝖼𝗋𝗒𝗉𝗍𝗈 𝖭𝖥𝖳
It's indisguishable from basic ASCII, except if you're blind and you use a screen reader. In which case I hope you won't mind for the sake of avoiding bots. Which is why Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. If possible, only use them for this exact use case.
2. Mention usernames without spamming them with notifications
Some people do for instance @.juju2143 or @/juju2143 to avoid sending useless notifications to someone on a tweet they know is going to be very popular or they don't want you to see because they hate you but that's kinda weird (also I don't ever mind if you don't do that send them notifications away ;))
Instead, wedge a zero-width space between the @ and the username! Impress your crowd! How do you do that! Here's a few characters that should work:
U+200BZero-width spaceU+200CZero-width non-joinerU+200DZero-width joinerU+2060Word joinerU+FEFFZero-width no-break space
Example: @juju2143
Again, indistinguishable from a normal mention, except no link, but it's also hard to copy and paste and will most likely break a lot of stuff, so use cautiously.
Have fun!