William Pietri's dashboard

From what I can tell, when I log in to the web site, it logs me out on my phone, and vice versa. That didn't used to be the case, and I wish I could stay logged in on both of them.

Thanks! That works fine.

I confirm that this problem is still happening. I've blown away every bit of AIR and twhirl and reinstalled from scratch. AIR refuses to install twhirl, saying "the AIR file is damaged" for both twhirl-0.8.7.air and twhirl-0.8.7-air11.air.

However, I just happily installed TweetDeck through their recommended install approach, so my AIR setup is fine.

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I would love it if Twitter integrated something like this, so I could say up front that people with bad ratios couldn't follow me unless I followed them first.

I'd like two features. First, let me set the context. I use Twitter to keep track of my pals, and to let them know how I'm doing. I don't mind that my comments are public, but I mind a lot that a few times a day I have to deal with messages from Twitter each day notifying me that spammers, self-promotional jerks, and confused people are following me.

So one, I'd like to be able to mark my account as a personal one, rather than a broadcast one. In fact, the personal account should be the default, and the self-marketing/brand extension/attention whore mode should have to be manually turned on.

The personal mode means I get notifications of subscribes, but that you guys are very choosy about who you let follow me. If they have a suspicious ratio of followers, if their account is new, or if they aren't connected to people connected to me, then you rate limit them heavily and manually review their accounts before lifting their follow rate. In broadcast mode, anybody can subscribe,and you don't get an email upon every change in your fan base.

Second, so that amateur anthropologists like Margaret can still follow lots of people, give her some way to follow people quietly. Maybe that means she can follow without generating a notification. Maybe you introduce a new category of following, introducing the friend/fan distinction. Or just create a whole new app called something like TwitterWatcher that lets her keep large lists of people to spy on without doing anything that implies a personal relationship. Or something in between.

I second this. For me, I block any attempted follower that has more than about a 3:1 ratio of followed to followers, especially if they follow more than a couple hundred people they're following. I do this on the theory that my block counts as some sort of "this user is annoying" vote that you will eventually pay attention to. – William Pietri, on April 24, 2008 02:44

Absolutely. I'm considering making my account private, just so I don't have to deal with the 1-5 spammers/yutzes a day adding me. – William Pietri, on April 23, 2008 23:13

Amen!

And let me add email accounts for this. I use Thunderbird and have several different accounts in there. Personal, my own business, and a few client-related email addresses.

And now that I think about it, I'd love to track down to the email folder level. Mailing lists are something I need to participate in sometimes, but it's easy to get carried away.