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Violet replied on June 04, 2009 05:28 to the idea "Filtering Friends' Tweets On Twitter.com" in Twitter:

In the months since I originally posted this suggestion here, someone developed an application that does exactly that! You can snooze chosen friends for a specified period of time without unfollowing them:

http://twittersnooze.com/

Handy!

It's not 100% perfect, in that the way it works is to temporarily UNFOLLOW the person and then it will automatically re-follow them when your desired snooze period is up. That means that they'll get another "so-and-so is now following you on Twitter" message for you and they'll know you weren't following them for a bit. (It can also let someone know you've snoozed them, if you choose, but most people probably wouldn't want to alert someone.)

That info (and more about the way it works) can be found under "The Details..." link.

Violet started following the question "Have I been blocked by anyone?" in Twitter.

Violet asked a question in twt.fm on May 24, 2009 11:23:

Do twt.fm links expire?

Do twt.fm links/track pages expire after a certain amount of time? I uploaded an MP3 to my personal server back in March, tweeted it via twt.fm, and the link it generated worked at the time, but doesn't any more.

Violet started following the question "Why can't I submit comments on the Election Public Page?" in Twitter.

Violet replied on October 07, 2008 21:05 to the idea "Suggestion for a new feature: mute" in Twitter:

Heya, yeah, I'd really like that, too!

(I made this suggestion under the subject "filtering friends' tweets on twitter.com" a few days ago.)

Violet started following the idea "Suggestion for a new feature: mute" in Twitter.

Violet replied on October 07, 2008 20:56 to the problem "I've been unjustly accused of strange activity and Twitter are doing nothing in response to my support requests" in Twitter:

Ugh. I know Twitter has a problem with spammers, but throwing innocent users under the bus along with the guilty without really investigating first is NOT the way to solve the problem.

I hope someone at Twitter will finally hear you and get you your accounts back.

Bryan Mason's reply to "Censoring the twitter election center to mostly allow anti-McCain/Palin comments? Democracy is not just the right to vote" was just promoted to the most useful! Violet and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

You are right that Twitter would absolutely lose credibility were we to editorialize through the selection of messages displayed.

The election.twitter.com site functions by simply:

A) Filtering all incoming messages looking for keywords like McCain, Obama, Palin, Biden and election,

B) Excluding from the Election Timeline all messages that contain profanity or phrases that could not be shown on broadcast television (as it often is),

C) Displaying a random sample of the messages (there are too many messages to show them all.)

We do not analyze nor do we filter for sentiment (for/against any candidate, campaign, or party.)

Please drop us a note if you'd like more detail on how the site functions.

Violet reported a problem in Twitter on October 05, 2008 14:16:

@ replies have gone wonky

Suddenly, not only have I seemingly stopped receiving @ replies directed to me, but now I'm also seeing every @ message written by someone I've just added.

Replies directed to me stopped showing up about an hour ago. All was fine before that. I know I'm missing them because I can see the replies to me if I go directly to people's pages.

And my @ settings are set to the default (i.e., I should only be seeing @ replies directed to me and/or mutual friends). Instead, I'm seeing EVERY message written by this one person (whom I just added about 15 minutes ago), including @ replies directed to people I don't follow myself. Tweets from all my other friends are showing up normally (only seeing their @s that are directed to mutual friends).

Help!

Violet started following the question "Replies to my tweets have gone missing" in Twitter.

Violet shared an idea in Twitter on October 04, 2008 02:21:

Filtering Friends' Tweets On Twitter.com

I would love to have the option to create filters to control which friends' tweets I want to see on my main page.

It's possible to specify which friends' tweets we want to get on our cell phones, but we can't do this on the website, and there are times when it would come in handy.

For example, some of my friends go through spells where they get a severe case of Twitterrhea, posting every two seconds. It makes me crazy, but I don't want to unfollow them; it would just be nice if I could filter their posts temporarily during the periods when they're drowning all my other friends out.

Violet marked one of nalts' replies in Twitter as useful. nalts replied to the idea "Sorting followers".

Violet started following the idea "Sorting followers" in Twitter.

Violet replied on September 24, 2008 11:10 to the problem "Conversion of characters to HTML entities is ruining tweet display" in Twitter:

Hating the truncation. A character should be a character should be a character, the way it was before the recent "upgrade." This is a step backward, not forward.

Violet started following the problem "Conversion of characters to HTML entities is ruining tweet display" in Twitter.

Violet replied on September 24, 2008 11:03 to the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

This has been happening to me constantly, and it's making me crazy. It's frustrating because I'm just writing my updates as I always have, using characters I've used in the past with no trouble. Now that my tweets are truncating, not only is it hard for me to tell why, but there's no warning that anything funky is going to happen until AFTER I post and see it's screwed up. What a pain. Do I have to regress to kindergarten-level writing to get around this, limiting myself only to letters and commas and periods? (Oops, that was a question mark; how many characters will one of those set me back? Uh-oh, a semi-colon. Yikes, and hyphens. I'm screwed.)

Violet replied on September 19, 2008 18:51 to the problem "My old tweet won't come off my profile page and update itself." in Twitter:

The same thing started happening to me a couple of days ago, too. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one ... lessens the paranoia that the world is out to get me specifically. *lol*

Other weird things have been happening, too. For example, tweets I post that are exactly 140 characters keep saying they're too long and ellipses are added to the end of the update, even though there IS no more to see.

But of course now I know why things have been going all weird: new site design.

Violet replied on August 08, 2008 11:52 to the question "Following icons not showing up" in Twitter:

I'm still waiting for mine to update, some from more than a week ago. But at least I feel a bit better knowing it's not just happening to me. (Sometimes, you start to wonder.)

Violet started following the question "Following icons not showing up" in Twitter.

Violet started following the question "Why are the pictures of people I follow not showing on my pages?" in Twitter.