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Allow unregistered following
The necessity for followers to be registered with Twitter is on my mind. Twitter should allow its account holders to decide if they want to allow only other registered account holder to follow them or if unregistered people could also follow them. Unregistered followers would not be allowed to send any replies to prevent spamming. I can understand that if your Twitter account is a personal one then you prefer to have only other registered users following you. However, if the Twitter account that you have set up is more of a public service, for example you set it up as an alerting service for a public organization, then if you want to promote the usage of Twitter you would prefer that potential followers should not have to register with Twitter. Having to register becomes a deterrent then. It would have been nice if this registration process for followers was clearly explained in the description of Twitter on their site.
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Inappropriate?People can view updates from public Twitter accounts without having to register for a Twitter account if:
1. They visit individual Twitter profile pages
For example, you can view all updates posted by @twitter_status at http://twitter.com/twitter_status whether or not you're a Twitter user.
You can verify this for yourself by logging out of Twitter then going to that URL. You'll see that the updates posted by @twitter_status are visible even to people without Twitter accounts.
2. They use an RSS reader
Each public Twitter account has a corresponding RSS feed, which is available at http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time... (replace 'username' with the actual Twitter user name).
For example, @twitter_status has an RSS feed at http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time...
Anyone with an RSS reader can subscribe to that RSS feed without having to register with Twitter.
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Obviously, folks who want to receive Twitter updates on their phone or im will have to register with Twitter to provide their phone numbers and im account names.
Similarly, if you intend to follow a lot of people and would like to view their tweets on the Twitter website, you will need to have a Twitter account and tell Twitter explicitly which people you'd like to follow.
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