Yeah, I have to agree with the above post by Nicole. Believe it or not, the fact that some people don't want this is an argument for it, because it demonstrates that there is a difference between simply "updating your status" (as others have suggested as an alternative) and DMing all followers.
As for it being unpractical to unfollow them because you have so many users, well, that's a cost of the approach to twitter that advocates following a bunch of people to build up your own follower list (for the record, there's nothing wrong with that approach, I'm just saying). James On Apr 16, 2:35 pm, Nicole Simon <nee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:12 PM, ray <ray.pig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm with Jesse on this one > > This is like giving somebody the key to the house and then complain > that people can 'just' get into the house. > > If you don't want to be DMed by certain people, dont follow them. > If you do get something from them, unfollow. > > Use Optout lists from Services who offer them like tweetlater. > > write a skript which will unfollow everyone who dm's you. > > Choose not to receive dm. > > Or set up a filter in your email programm to spam certain DM automatically. > > At the end of the day it all boils down to: If you follow people, they can > DM you, period. If you dont like it, be more selective about who you > follow. > > Nicole
