Awesome comment!
Second, we’ve started designing a new 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 here’s what that nerf will likely be: the ability to vanity-search for yourself but not have anyone you don’t like show up who is replying to you with @ — the long-desire track-blow that Steve Gilmor lobbied intensively for last summer, and that Craig Newmark has recently demanded. The thin-skinned A-lister geeks are responsible for all this ultimately because they want to broadcast to throngs of adoring fans, but never hear from critics and dissidents. While per-user settings seems like ordinary civil liberties sort of stuff, look at the network effect of this behaviour massively— legions of people blocking the back-talk of people they don’t like, for arbitrary reasons, and as Twitter is increasingly used by public officials and mass media, handily being able to erase First Amendment and other constitutional rights to redress grievances. It’s a bad development and one we should keep fighting.
Originally posted as a comment by Prokofy on Mashable - The Social Media Guide using Disqus.
I say - pwned to teh bone! :)
