{"id":2789,"date":"2021-09-24T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2021-09-21T07:49:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:49:55","slug":"cleaning-up-your-twitter-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2021\/09\/cleaning-up-your-twitter-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up Your Twitter \u201cInterests\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In order to rein in the ads and \u201cPromoted\u201d posts in your Twitter feed, you need to uncheck all of your \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/settings\/your_twitter_data\/twitter_interests\">Interests<\/a>\u201d in the <strong>Ads preferences<\/strong> section of your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/settings\/your_twitter_data\/twitter_interests\"><strong>Settings<\/strong><\/a>.  This list is usually in the hundreds, if not thousands\u2014and each item must be manually unchecked. &#x2639;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This script helps enormously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eviltester.com\/blog\/eviltester\/2019\/11\/25-automating-twitter-interests\/\"><strong>Automatically Unchecking Twitter Interests<\/strong><\/a>. I found changing the timer from &#8220;100&#8221; to &#8220;3000&#8221; was the sweet spot where it was working through these checkboxes in decent time, but not triggering a whole bunch of 500 errors or hanging up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Twitter-is-not-dead-1-1080x675-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2790\" width=\"524\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Twitter-is-not-dead-1-1080x675-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Twitter-is-not-dead-1-1080x675-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Twitter-is-not-dead-1-1080x675-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Twitter-is-not-dead-1-1080x675.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 85vw, 524px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to rein in the ads and \u201cPromoted\u201d posts in your Twitter feed, you need to uncheck all of your \u201cInterests\u201d in the Ads preferences section of your Settings. This list is usually in the hundreds, if not thousands\u2014and each item must be manually unchecked. &#x2639;&#xfe0f; This script helps enormously: Automatically Unchecking Twitter Interests. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2021\/09\/cleaning-up-your-twitter-interests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cleaning up Your Twitter \u201cInterests\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[8],"tags":[622,327,123,621,623,620],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}