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Eridanus,

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, Mr. Simon is exploiting a hole in the code. He is not following me. There is no pre-emptive block right now on Twitter. Once can only block those who choose to follow.

Meanwhile, Mr. Simon's @PurpleCar tweets to me show up in my replies timeline. Currently, there is no way to block them from coming.

Thanks anyway!

-PC

Twitter wants all users to do what I felt I was forced to do: Make all updates private, block users, take Twitter updates off Facebook, Pownce, my blog, and all other sites, etc. etc. Basically Twitter wants me to use their service in a VERY specific and extremely limited way. They obviously don't care about the free word-of-mouth and site advertisement they were getting from my usage of Twitter widgets on other sites. Twitter is slowly but surely restricting my usage to the point of abandonment. I'm not the first to say this and I won't be the last. – PurpleCar, on May 22, 2008 21:48

I and others had a similar issue with Twitter. (See 'is panopticons violating Twitter's TOS?' here on Get Satisfaction!)

Unfortunately, Twitter will keep its crowd of early adopters despite all of this. Going forward, Twitter won't be viable for widespread 'tipping point' adoption levels due to their lack of features, including the non-policing (please see my blog post http://www.purplecar.net/2008/05/19/u...).

I truly can't imagine Twitter has any valid arguments against showing their community that there are, at the very least, minimal efforts to protect it. Is Twitter's exit strategy approaching on their timeline? I ask because they clearly don't care about their community and have little insight into the future of the application. Twitter's staff is unprepared and unwilling to play in the big leagues with Flickr and other services that have found their way into the mainstream. Who ARE these people who invested in this last round? What is the real story here?

I never blocked Noah, nor have I spoken against him. Blocking panopticons because it is chewing up my RSS didn't help. RSS helps me keep track of @ replies I may have missed. I can't DM him now because he stopped following me, but I fear it will do no good anyway. This is the pain of early adoption. Twitter will have to do something about this kind of thing if they are going to sell the container or market otherwise to businesses.