Block / Ignore feature would be useful, PLEASE

Thank you. Some dude messaged me and his icon was his wiener. :(

This guy won't stop sending me direct messages because I won't talk to him. This is why we need it, as well as for people in the nearby feed.

I agree! Already, some people are posting insults or sending inappropriate messages that no one else wants to read. I know with popularity comes this sort of stuff but blocking would be a welcome feature.

This is a good idea definately - there is one guy who is just insulting everyone in a 10 mile radius I think! Eskimowolves, I think his name was.. it would be good if we could flag users, not just block them from our account - if a user gets enough flag they get their account looked at and blocked if necessary?

I received a photo attached to a direct message with some kid exposing himself and the text just said "?". his name is aperfectjoint, from CT.
BLOCK HIM, please.

I agree - there is a user by the name of J2theZ who is currently flat out abusing people. And while I am happy to watch it go by it is incredibly revolting and insulting. In fact being married to a police officer here in Australia makes me wonder whether what he is doing is criminal.

Twinkle has amazing potential.. like, AMAZING potential! but it needs this block feature liek YESTERDAY :(

come on Twinkle devs let's get this poppin!

I am just adding my name to the list of people who want this feature. Some kid talked about wanting me dead tonight. I don't know this kid, I don't know where the venom came from.

I really enjoy talking to people on twinkle. They automatically have an interest we all share, the iPhone or iPod. I've received help and answers to questions as well as interesting conversations. But having someone attack you out of the blue, call you a bitch and a fat pig, say they want you dead... it's a bummer to say the least.

theres a guy in Sydney who keeps trying to chat up every female on twinkle.. hard to follow conversation with 50 plus messages in row

Chris,

Any eta on the blocking update? The "nearby" function at the current point is just about worthless.

I keep getting messages of pictures of things on men I don't want to see. Also, phone number from a creepy guy and so many requests for me to "open my legs" (my userpic is a picture of shins.. I'm not putting my face on twinkle at this point.) It's annoying as hell, but I LOVE the local feature..

Blocking is in 1.2, I can confirm that for sure :) There are still other features being built into 1.2 before we release it though...

I agree with everyone on this, some people are just plain nasty and while I can block via the website, I can't via Twinkle.

Dudes send me weiner pics all the time. One actually said, "Can we f*ck?" Ewwww....then one actually said that I should get off twinkle if I didn't like that people asked me inappropriate things. WTF?? Some people are just too stupid to use the internet, they should be banned permanently.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF <diety> let us block/ignore!


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I'm not surprised you're frustrated at that, it's highly inapproriate given that there are younger users posting. There does seem to be a fairly high level of obscenity and general nastiness being posted and some of the pictures are either nasty or just plain sad - who really wants to see a guy with his underpants on his head?
On a slightly different note, I am still being followed by obvious spammers. As I mainly use Twinkle, it often takes time and several steps for me to 1. find out they're following me 2. block said spammer 3. report them

Ok, how about an ETA?

Has the new update even been uploaded for processing on the app store yet?

I have finally turned off the local thing, I can't take it anymore

I wanted to say I like the blocking idea.... but the interface didn't like my E-mail address and password that I used for Twinkle... I've double-checked it. Not sure what the problem is there... unless I need a ***new*** sign in for these boards.... [added after trying that.....] which it seems I do. [smile]

Hey guys, I'm sitting here at tapulous head quarters and the people here say that if you have a problem with offending twinkle users you ought to email support@tapulous.com with their User ID and they'll take action to make them stop.

Dear: Chris Clark.

Okay I would like to address the concerns on this matter in regards to my posts. I had never once ever directed any of my question to anyone specifically. I have many friends which are females that get direct sexual advances on twinkle and pictures which contain explicit content which the majority of the men even those on here complaining about the matter are also doing such acts behind the scene. I also understand that many of my posts were not appropriate and accept that, but on the other hand I have other individuals which have brought to my attention which I will not use names on here to secure thier identity on Twinkle that have notified me of such behaviors such as: request for naked pictures, and also individual by the name of Mr.Tiger which also uses abusive language on other individuals by calling them "pedophile" in a public setting. I was extremely bothered by the fact that an email was sent to me notifiying me of a "final warning" as if such warning had been given to me previously. If someone would do his or her due diligence in regards to a wide range of frequent misuse of this application which I like to call it and many would prefer to call it "Community" you will find yourself with a severe problem of minors, men and women posting pictures of themselves such as "skank" as an example G-strings shots of herself and vaginal shots.

I agree such policies should be established and enforced but it should be clear to everyone that logs into this application and be posted or addressed prior to entering into the blog/forum areas. I also think that a credit card system should be consider as part of your pledge to the environment which everyone of you have to agree to maintain. I also think an age verification should also be addressed since minors are an issue in many cases in regards to myspace and other website in the past. I also think that with the popularity of this application you should consider creating different areas which conversation are a selection of choice and particular conversations are held and accepted.

As I read many of your concerns such as the example Jessica_BM used I'm a grain of salt within the problem of misuse of this application. I would also like to mentioned that Richard Thornton must have posted this prior to my conversation with him on Twinkle since I cleared any doubts or concerns he had with my choice of posts. The person which indentified himself as "stalfus" I believe your screen name is Taley on Twinkle which friends of mine mentioned that you were taking credit for this particular post on here so I would address that you made first contact and asked me "to go over and you would show me a good time", shortly after you continued to send me message to come to some conclusion that I would also be "gay" so if I also recieved an email for my behavior and I accept it. I also feel that it should also be addressed to that particular person "Taley" for homosexual advances which I felt threatened by and which also gets addressed in the email which I received that states if you would not consider appropriate to say in person you should not say it.

If anyone did feel uncomfortable please use this post as an indication of my apology to all. Chris if you feel the need to address any concerns of any kind I used the same name as I do on twinkle because I have no reason to hide so as the email was sent earlier to me you probably can find me and send me any question you may have.

Chris

I have address my concerns with my prior post but the individual which I indicate on my post continues to send me messages and also follows my every post. I got a message from this individual at 8:00pm. I want this to stop immediately. I will like to have an email sent to this indivdual with the same guideline. If this person continues to message me I will flood this forum with request for someone to take action.

The individual screen name is Taley and he used a name on here "stalfos" to post a complain about my post. I want an email sent to him with a final warning for immediate banned.

I continues to recieve messages from this guy "taley" stating that he feels satisfied by the email sent to me and glorifying it. I want someone to take immediate action and banned this individual because he is only using this as a leverage and popularity contest on this application.

If he continues then I will also continue the abuse towards him. I will accept any result from this but if he does not stop messaging me then I will consider that acceptable and I will continue with my abusive comments.

Chris please look into this matter.

It continues and I will accept it and responsed to his comments in 24hrs which provides anyone from this application to address the issue.

The individual not only does he continue to bad mouth me on PM but the individual lives in the same area and also used a picture of himself which is not very smart from his point of view.

So I sent an email to the support email which is stated above.

I hope this matter is handled in the correct channels.

This is what I was talking about.

The Grand Cricket:

Thank you for pointing out something that has already been addressed through an email which I received this morinng. You also make a valid point in regards to homosexuals but when I get an invitation from another man to come over his house for a good time in a sexual way I do take it offensive, so yes to answer your quesiton I do find it a problem.

I also see your one of his friends so its understanable that you would defend him on here, so like ed mentioned until the ignore or block feature comes out with the new update just ignore me and continue with your life.

I also would like to point the fact that within 24hrs I have also complied and accepted any responsiblities for my action on Twinkle and if you could find any offensive comments made by me within the last day or so I would personally delete the application myself.

Again you have the power to press " stop following" and you would not find the need to hear my comments. I see that the two people which find me offensive are the only two individual which PM me all the time.

Have a good night and don't lose any sleep on this, since it looks like you guys keep a log of my past posts.

What I find sad is how J2theZ and other "adults" seem to be acting like 14 year old kids. I'm just thankful that J2theZ is located across the country from me so I don't have to listen to him in my nearby area.

I think it's hilarious that j2thez is trying to sound eloquent now that someone is harassing him on twinkle.

I can say one postive note from all of this: Stalfos "aka Taley" stopped sending me PM so I think my job is complete here. I hope that this application continues to improve its security factors and provides a clean enviroment which I think I failed in that aspect as a novice on this application and learned that strange individual even though disagree will follow your every step and be amused.

JESUS....J2theZ. We GET IT you were harassed even though you were in fact a harasser! Leave this post open for actual updates on the release of the product. I have gotten at least 27 email updates because of this foolishness. Fade out please...thanks

Thats fine and I accepted full responsiblities for my action but my point tonight was directed to Stalfos aka Taley and individual like him that like the rule enforce but also like to break them.

Taley why are you mad at the world?

Mods, please lock this thread. unfortunately, there is no way in which you can report a user at this point. I am unsubscribing from this topic, because as far as I am concerned, everything that needs to be said was said before JtotheZ started posting.

What is the matter with you guys?? I do not appreciate waking up to so many emails that amount to a cat fight. Please stick to the subject, if you want to bitch about each other do it somewhere else.
Sticking to the subject, I can't wait for this feature so I don't have to look at inappropriate pictures/posts from certain users

Screenshot from Twinkle 1.2

Is that update out? There's nothing in the UK store

Right, I got a bit worried when it wasn't listed in my updates. Looks good!

A BLOCK function is a MUST for Twinkle. With Nearby sometimes you get someone posting non stop every minute and you can only see their messages as everyone else's have been pushed away. We need BLOCK ASAP. Then a list to manage blocked users so they could be unblocked.

thanks so much, really looking forward to getting it where i can find actually interesting people looking to do more than have sex with each other and curse to look cool. i imagine my block list will get pretty long pretty quick! :)

I thought I would stop by and see if Twinkle has added the blocking function yet.

I got tired of waiting aand moved to Twittelator a few weeks ago. It has a TON of options and has had 3 updates since the Twinkle block function was promised.

Sorry Tapulous, but Twittelator kicks Twinkles ass.

Twittelator cannot have a Nearby functionality, because they are just a twitter client and twitter does not store the location of the tweets. What they try do to is to use the location field of the twitter account. But this has nothing do to with where the tweet was written. Take Twitteriffic: They update the location field in your Twitter account every post, when you click on the little icon. For Twittelator, this means, that every tweet this person writes during his whole life now gets displayed on this new location. This of course is nonsense. Friday I tweeted from the Metallica concert in Berlin. Twittelator would display these feeds now located at my home. Twinkle works different in that it saves the location for every tweet you write. So if I look at the nearby now, I see the tweets wrote near my home, at work I see the tweets written near my work and if I go to the to O2 World arena, I'll see the tweets I wrote their on friday. That's the difference. And, speaking for me, Twinkle has the only usable implementation of location based tweeting.

Yay I'm all excited now as I'm getting so sick of seeing one particular user's profanities. Let's hope Apple doesn't hold it up too long or get picky like they've been with a couple of apps.....

Ya, this is classy. A block feature would be good on this "fully functional" twitter client.

J2theZ is at it again...just got an @ reply message asking if he could rub my t*ts. Nice....sigh

Is there any chance of cleaning Twinkle of some of the garbage? It has become a douchebag repository and a place for children to get attention by posting as many racial slurs in a row as they can fathom.

Please, your product is going to complete crap here.