Taking a "Follow Break"
If you follow someone on Twitter who sometimes gets a bit too prolific, the folks over at Someecards have you covered: "I think we need to take a follow break until your Twittering gets under control." Totally starred it. Those guys are good.
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How about helping us take follow breaks? I'd love a "shush" command (stop updates from a user for 24 hours) or a "mute"/"unmute" command (indefinite toggle). Taking a follow break can sometimes be a permanent unfollow for folks with bad memory...
I needed that yesterday!!
Biz I know you know that when you resume following someone they get an email saying you are now following you. It makes it clear you stopped following them for a while.
Brother to brother, me to you, I sure with twitter would add silencing functionality so we could leave and resume a user instead of forcing us into the awkward situation of having to ask someone to stop over-sharing.
I know you can feel me. Honestly this need has come up in conversation more than I can to admit twitter comes up in my regular conversation.
Make it a paid feature if that's what's needed ;>
would be great to have people in your network without the need to follow them. sometimes you like people but you think it's uninteresting and just too much what they say. and if you have several hundreds of people you follow it gets hard to pick out the good tweets.
would be nice to have a feature like "unfollow but keep as contact".
i'd like a way to add people as contacts, able to specify who's friend, choose exactly which contacts to follow.
because having them as a contact while not folowing enable us to follow them at a later date. or as ryan said, to be "checklist" of who to re-follow later.
Along those same lines:
http://twitter.com/beep/statuses/788834968
Something to stop the Twitter spammers from adding thousands a day and sending us all new follower alerts. Ethan suggested limiting to 25 new adds a day. I agree.
Twitter gurus - you gotta start taking the Twitter spam seriously or the whole concept will break. Every day I get 2-4 Follow-notifications from spammers. I could just leave them there, but it'll become totally unmanageable in just a month or two.
Please make a "This is SPAM"-button next to the Block button? If 5 or more users tag something as spam, just apply a quota on this user or turn off it's ability to follow entirely?
Unless some feature like that is implemented, the value of Twitter will decrease for me.
J
Taking a follow break can sometimes be a permanent unfollow for folks with bad memory
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