weskimcom's dashboard

Thanks - looking forward to updates.

Of course, this would require collection of email addresses, generating and managing a lot of reply-to addresses and message traffic, etc. Unless there's an easier way to do it that I'm not thinking of. Maybe a Web-based interface for approval of DMs?

Yeah, I just regularly check http://textism.com/favrd/favorites/pe...[username] to see my tweets that have been favorited. – weskimcom, on July 17, 2008 18:13

Try http://textism.com/favrd/. Well, once they're back online anyway. (They're down at the moment while some twitter API updates take place.) – weskimcom, on July 17, 2008 16:53

Never mind, it's back now...

I would like to add one statistic to my previous suggestion for more robust reporting in "new follower" email notifications:

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

That would be a % figure that tells me how many of a person's tweets contain URL links. While there are legitimate twitterers who routinely link to blog posts and whatnot from their tweets, I've noticed that a common spammer technique is to post tweets claiming to be about some useful piece of news but always with links back to their site, presumably to drive up their hit counts.

Hate 'em...

Are people having problems with spammers hitting them with multiple follow notifications? That's the only rationale I can come up with for the current "block" functionality. I get follow notifications from spammers, but I don't follow them back, so they can't really bother me at that point, can they?

Honestly, I don't care how many follow requests I get from those users who are "following 1000s of people but only followed by a handful of newbies." These are simply spammers/morons whom I will never follow back and therefore will never have to hear from again.

What I *do* resent is that my email notification simply tells me that so-and-so is following me, and I have to actually go to the person's profile to determine whether or not they're someone I actually know or if they're just a spammer/moron.

This is a waste of my time -- let's put more useful information into the notification emails themselves! If I see that I have a follow notification from someone who's following 1,000 people, followed by 12, and doesn't follow anyone I do, I can instantly delete the email and never have to think about this person again.

Better yet, how about an email notification that looked something like this?

****

Hi, [your username].

Spammer/Moron ([spammer/moron username]) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Spammer/Moron's stats:
Name Spammer/Moron
Location Spamtown
Web http://www.spammermorons.com
Bio I'm a spammer/moron!
Following 10,351
Followers 12

[link]Follow Spammer/moron with notifications on.[/link]
[link]Follow Spammer/moron with notifications off.[/link]
[link]Block Spammer/moron.[/link]

Check out [spammer/moron username]'s profile here:

http://twitter.com/[spammer/moron username]

Best,
Twitter

--
Turn off these emails at: http://twitter.com/account/notifications

****

Whaddya say?

Why limit it? Let's offer a range of options: instant notification for each follow as it happens, weekly digests, AND monthly digests. Then everyone's happy. – weskimcom, on April 19, 2008 18:36

I'm forming a circle of agreement by agreeing with mdoeff after he agreed with me. :)

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

I hate adds from people who are either spammers or just foolish people who follow thousands of others for no apparent reason. In my dream world, I would receive a monthly digest/report email of new follow notifications rather than each one in its own email. By each person's username, I would want to see the following:

a) Their twitter profile: Name, location, Web site, bio.
b) How many people they follow and how many follow them.
c) How many people we follow in common.

This way, I only get bugged once a month, and I can easily determine which if any of my new followers are worth following back without having to go to their individual twitter pages.

Whaddya say, twitter?

I think it should just be a statement that specifies the right character set. The fact that it works correctly in the "w/friends' tweets" badge makes it seem like this setting is just missing from the "just my tweets" badge. Maybe that means it's a simple fix to make...?

ona_matope,

I like that service, but I'm wondering how far back in time you're crawling to find favorited tweets...

Oh, thanks - didn't realize twittersync was built by you guys as well. I'm actually feeding multiple twitter accounts into my status updates - I had both Twitter and TwitterSync installed on Facebook. I guess I'll kill off the old Twitter app for now...