Apps that provide this capability have the responsibility to let us opt-out. I don't see the problem here. If people don't want to receive DMs from your app, why should they have to. Plain and simple. I follow people not to receive marketing DMs from them, but rather so they can communicate with me, real communication. If I had to unfollow every single person that did this, I wouldn't have any time to get anything else done - it's annoying, and making Twitter worthless to me as a user. Apps have an ethical responsibility to provide opt-out, plain and simple if they're going to enable the sending of mass-DMs in any way. I didn't opt-into getting sales advertisements from the people I follow when I joined Twitter.
I don't see what the problem is here - what's so wrong with providing an opt-out feature? Is there any way we can get this in the Terms of Use Alex (Payne)? Jesse On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Nicole Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Ed Costello <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm fine with getting DM'd by *people* I follow. But I don't expect to >> get DM'd by @cnnbrk or @jetblue unless I'm directly engaging them. There's >> no granularity to separate getting DM'd by a friend I follow from DM'd by a >> bot powering a corporate account. > > > Then why are you following those 'bots powered by corporate account' so > that they can DM you? > Especially since every twitter account is also available by RSS? > > Alternately, if you want the ability to spam DM everyone who follows a >> given account, then there must be a corresponding feature to block DMs from >> accounts one follows. >> > > It is called don't follow but read the content elsewhere. > > You can't have the cake and eat it. > > Do you really think twitter as a company should spend their dev time in > making separation which are down to each person to decide rather than > keeping the system running? > > If you want that feature, build a system which retrieves all your DMS and > allows you to set them as 'friends' and 'bad bots' and only let those > through which you want to see. > > Again: this is not a twitter problem, but a usage tool. > > Nicole > > > > >
