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That would probably make sense if
1) any one in the valley outside of my Sister-in-law and best friend from 1st grade knew who the hell I was. I'm about as much of a "Valley Insider" as you are m'dear.
2) You were willing to concede that if no one one has the right to control discourse, that includes YOU.
3) Being a mother somehow made my opinion any less relevant than yours - which, given that you are one as well makes utter no sense.

Prokofy, you and I actually agree on a number of things - this just doesn't happen to be one of them.

But you've never bothered to find out a single thing about me.
You just judged, condemned and spat out your rhetoric without bothering to do a single bit of research into it.

You don't have to 'cede' authority to me - or anyone else - because it isn't yours to give.

No one said you ought to stand by idly - I simply pointed out the inherent irony of your complaining of those who would like to control your and others behavior whilst you were attempting to control ours. – GeekMommy, on May 05, 2008 01:46

"Roy, first, you have to persuade me that the behaviour is bad. I'm not persuaded. That's what due process in a democratic society *is*. If you expect me to believe that "just because you say so" and "don't you know who I am?!" then you are playing into the characteristics of an authoritarian society."

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Um, I'm sorry, but you keep saying that this is a police-state issue - why does anyone have to "persuade you" of anything?
Are you the one in a position to grant or deny the petition?

You, also, are not in control of anyone's behavior. There is no need to persuade you.

Twitter is not a Democratic society, it is a company - and that, by nature, makes it at best a benevolent Dictatorship.

There are people who have the wherewithal to grant or deny the petitions of those asking for some sort of ruling and enforcement of TOS violations - but you are not one of them.

I understand your concerns - but you seem to have set yourself up here as one who has the authority to judge whether or not what the rest of us believe is acceptable.

That's just simply not the case. – GeekMommy, on May 04, 2008 22:31

There are really only 2 questions here - despite the abundance of posts.

1) Is he abusing the Twitter TOS?
2) Will Twitter enforce those TOS if he is?

Many folks above have documented (at length) behavior that we all feel clearly violates the terms of service - specifically, using Twitter accounts to intentionally harass and abuse other Twitterer members and violating their copyrights.

Someone on the company's side needs to now determine definitively if they agree with us that the TOS have been repeatedly violated by this individual.
If Twitter doesn't believe that is the case, THEY NEED TO STATE SO.

If Twitter does determine that he is violating the TOS, we would appreciate knowing if they intend on doing anything to enforce them and to prohibit his person from continuing to do so.

This isn't community policing - this is community asking for the COMPANY to respond to complaints from multiple sources that this individual has violated the TOS.

Please address the issue, Twitter.

There's more than enough pointless debate here - it's time someone in a position of authority within the company stepped up and addressed this.

Thank you for putting up the notice on the mainpage at least... that will now stop the steady stream of 'is Twitter still having problems?' tweets.

But is there a reason you guys aren't rolling back the change from Friday night? I know there are situations where that is not feasible - but since we don't know what's going on, it's one of those questions that should be addressed.

Guys - if you didn't read thru the comments above - a *temporary* solution is to follow/unfollow an account and refresh the home page to see new tweets.
Currently, the cache is having 'issues' and they are working on it.

I find it's easy enough to open a second tab with an account that doesn't get follow notifications (like @CNN) and follow, then refresh home page in other tab - read, then unfollow again, refresh home page, read...

Nicer than sending your friends a lot of 'xxx is following you' notices.

I'm sure Twitter will get the cache issues fixed soon enough.

The effect is temporary - as it only refreshes the cache - so the first time you reload the home page, you will get it, the second time, you will lose the people again.
That said? rather than unfollowing and refollowing someone - following an account that doesn't get notifications - like CNN and unfollowing them works just as well, and doesn't pepper your friends with 'xxx just added you' notices. – GeekMommy, on April 20, 2008 17:48

Actually, this seems to be a widespread thing - no one I've spoken with about it has received email notifications from Twitter since around 4pm pacific yesterday. – GeekMommy, on April 12, 2008 21:50

I've had this problem as well for quite some time.
Robert's updates only show up sporadically (say, one every few days) in my timeline, despite our mutual following status for a couple months.

And yes, it's @Scobleizer... I know Aruni has it right, I've looked at her list.