On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Jesse Stay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chad, the value is 1) I get to show a token of appreciation for them > > following me - even if I can't listen to everyone I am at least willing > to > > give them the opportunity to be discovered, and most importantly, 2) I > want > > them to have the ability to communicate with me via DM if they want to. > > Yes, this is the case where I would like to receive DMs from people > that I am not following. I do appreciate the people that follow > everyone back so they can be DM'd, but I imagine it doesn't help those > people (or you) really follow the core group of people you'd like to > very closely (tho there are tools for that, which I'm sure you use), > and I'm sure it puts a hurt on Twitters servers by having to connect > all those edges on the graph. > > Thank you for your explanation. I think we're all on the same side of > the argument here, it's just the implementation/practice we're worried > about. > Unfortunately, until Twitter fixes this, I think applications need to have a responsibility to fix this flaw by offering opt-out for those that don't want to receive the DMs their apps send out. Jesse
