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I fail to see why his family members should have any bearing on judging his behaviour. Is this some kind of Kangaroo Court here run by village "elders" we didn't elect? What about due process?

I also fail to understand how judgements about the defendant's mental capacity or intentions can accurately be made remotely at a distance, without proper medical certification and a face-to-face examination.

I fail to see why somebody overcoming the fussy and school-marmy nature of some echo-chamber A-listers and social media power-marketers is necessarily a "black hat hacker". That is, my mind is definitely open on this, because I hate hacking and griefers, but I want to see what is "griefing" you unless your bitch is that your vanity feed about yourself is "messed up". Don't...have a vanity feed then? Just watch your own feed in real time, when you have the time, just unfollow people who annoy you, and block those who seem to chat at you so that at least in real time they can't see you (and would have to read a page, use the sort of techniques this guy is using, or use Tweetscan).

I'd like to hear a non-emotional, non-judgemental account, please of what it is that this guy does that really constitutes "spam," if you can just unfollow the accounts coming into your view? Awaiting...

We need to leave these sorts of things alone and stop this self-organized policing of Twitter that is highly suspect all on its own.

I have no idea what Panopticons is, why it follows and re-tweets me, or whether it is part of the same sort of secret police style reporting that @PurpleCar does with her @OddFollow and friends whose updates are "protected" only in a group different than hers (which is why she may not like it) or whether it's just some marketing hack scraping data or what it is. But I can't care.

Because the system gives us two tools: unfollow and block. Use them. Stop whining. Leave the system open.

Make an internal system to do group IMs in your own company if you need to chat among yourselves without other people, don't use Twitter. Yahoo Messenger with a group is also an option for those who get so flustered by other people on the Internet.

Eric, the challenge here is to come up with a reason Twitter would NOT want to make this change. And it's a deep philosophical problem for all social media. Facebook doesn't notify you when a friend leaves; Second Life doesn't notify you when someone cuts your friendship card. And so on. Yet people wish to have this. The only reason not to provide it is so that the people who leave aren't going to suffer any kind of follow-up spam or retaliation. But on the other hand, it's a piece of information that the system really has no justification to obscure. Some much fuss is made about following/friending/blocking blah blah, that not to have the opposite information become available is just a strange contrivance that grew out of unexamined social media rituals that nobody debated. – Prokofy, on April 12, 2008 20:44

I have a guy who keeps messaging that I can only get his updates if I'm his friend, and I'm sick of it. Since I'm already following him, I don't get this. I'd like to UNFOLLOW him n ow, but I don't get that option. This must be some kind of glitch.

um, Eric? The use case is...people want it because they...want to know who has stopped following them. That's called "feedback". It's a valid use case all its own without requiring a technical/commercial "usage" as a "case".

People want to know if someone has stopped following them so they can investigate the reason. The person finds they post too much? too little? something offensive? By not providing this information, people have no feedback in this system to adjust their posts if they wish to keep followers.