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On Apr 2, 12:00 am, sromero <santi.rom...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to what you think about integrating to the web interface > a "mute" functionality. Yes, it would be similar to follow/unfollow at > the end, but I think that having a small list somewhere (probably at > the right of the time line right now) where I could "unmute" users > with a single click without having to remember who I have muted > (therefore having to look for them again, sometimes with the need of > writing down the username first) can be useful. Examples: > > - You may want to mute some journalists commenting a match I don't > care > - You may want to mute certain people/TvChannels/etc during your work > hours > > I say it's similar to follow/unfollow because I think it would add a > third "state" in the relationship between two users, and thus probably > change part of the API: > > - Not Following > - Following > - - Muted (which can only happen if following) > > The functionality can be done using the current API with an external > application I guess (I haven't gone deep into the API), but we obtain > to lists from the user: following and followers, and thus we don't > know which users are actually muted. That is, we must store this > information in an external place and that might not always be possible/ > desired. > > May be when viewing someone's timeline it could be distinguish those > tweets that happened while you had the user muted (so you know what > you don't remember having read that :) > > Any comments? Do you think that this feature deserves a place in the > API? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
