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  • Accepting twitter changes

    Posted by Qrystal on May 13, 2009 at 20:58.
    Category: Miscellany. Tags: twitter.

    …a new [twitter] feature which will give folks far more control over what they see from the accounts they follow. This will be a per-user setting and it will take a bit longer to put together but not too long and we’re already working on it.

    — From the Twitter Blog: “We Learned A Lot”.

    Every complaint I had was appended by an exception: if there are going to be more per-user settings in the future, everything’s going to be okay.

    I’m glad to know everything’s going to be okay! Crisis averted!

    Also, some discussion of scalability at ReadWriteWeb very quickly convinced me that this would be a very real issue. If it helps twitter run better, that’s a great reason to crop it away! Consider me converted.

    AND!!! I had already suggested to the nice folks at twitter that it would be great to have an option to set a short text note with each of our followees, so we can remember why we are following them. I got a personal-sounding thank you, saying it sounded like a great idea, so maybe this will be coming soon too! And if there is more flexibility in per-user settings, maybe that’s when GROUPS will come into play! Or maybe that will be the Pro version! (…*gulp!*…)

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