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Two years ago I changed my trends location to a county whose language I can't read (Japan). The trends box still exists, but I can't read it and can't care abou
by RpFLCL 5y ago
Two years ago I changed my trends location to a county whose language I can't read (Japan). The trends box still exists, but I can't read it and can't care about any so-called trends.
- j6 5y agoI personally have the trends country set to one that doesn't usually have a very big (or any) presence on Twitter (e.g. British Indian Ocean Territory, Falkland Islands, ...). This makes the "Trends for you" part of the page empty.
- Jiocus 5y agoThanks for this hack. I found it hilarious (and useful).
- TchoBeer 5y agoI wonder if it'll start filling up if enough users do this
- jaywalk 5y agoNo, that's not how it works. The only way it would start getting content is if users actually started tweeting from those remote locations, which seems unlikely.
- MauranKilom 5y ago...or someone figures out that appearing to tweet from that location suddenly puts their tweets in front of a lot of eyeballs.
- notsureaboutpg 5y agoIt's extremely easy to spoof your location online
- Graffur 5y agobrilliant - thanks
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoGreat tip! Surprisingly awkward to do, but well worth it.
- pradn 5y agoThat's amazing. I picked the country Chad and I see no trends at all! With word and account blocking, I get good control over what I see, even in the official Twitter app. (A good number of the control methods, like disabling like numbers, are only available via browser extension.)
- yread 5y agoSome years ago I did something similar with Facebook - switched my location to North Korea and voila all advertisements disappeared. Later, it stopped working and even later Airbnb (where I foolishly linked the account) asked me to accept new terms of use but I couldn't because they blocked anyone from North Korea from using Airbnb.