I looked at making many of these features, but it gets a bit messy with the UI when you say, give me a list of 2,000 things that I can selectively choose from. Its the same as an email contact importer, but here the numbers are much higher, so you end up with 2,000 names on a list and they then need reference as to who those people are and why they would want to follow them, etc. (Plus the whole 2,000 following limit seems to damper this)
Don't get me wrong, if someone wants to pay for it, and someone has the time to build it, who cares anyhow...but just saying these are some issues you would want to think about ahead of time. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't have time right now to do this, so I thought I'd pass it on > and see if anyone else is interested. If so, please unicast me and I > can get you the contact info for the person below. And yes, I know > about Twitter Karma, but he says he's tried it and it didn't exactly > accomplish his goals... > -Chad > > Begin forwarded message: > > > There are actually two things i'd like to be able to do.... > > 1. Make it easy to unfollow a ton of the folks i'm following in one > shot. > > So...ideal world...i can import all of the folks i'm following into > one web page. Then I could, just like in excel, click one...scroll > down....click on another...all the ones inbetween would be > highlighted...and I could unfollow all of those at once. > > 2. Go to any person's followers list...import them all > at once...and then click one...scroll down....click on > another....all the one's inbetween would be highlighted, > and then I could follow them all at once. > > For this...I believe you would have to 'throttle' how > fast it followed those folks so there weren't any > 'issues'. You may know more about that then I > would. > > I wouldn't try to follow more then 3-5 hundred on > any given day...as I heard past that you may run > into 'issues'. > > Let me know how hard the above would be to create, > and how much it would cost for me to have it created. >
