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Removal notices?
I want to be notified when someone stops following me. Occasionally I'll notice that my followers have decreased by one, but I can't figure out which one has dropped off. Can I get notified when someone removes me from his or her "following" list?
I’m left unsatisfied
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Inappropriate?billbraine: Can you give me an idea -- or Twitter an idea -- of how that might be helpful for Twitter users? If you have something particular in mind, some kind of use case, that is compelling, maybe that will encourage Twitter to develop such a feature. I don't think that exists now.
I’m curious
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Let me also clarify that I mean I don't think this feature exists currently. -
Inappropriate?I would REALLY like this too. We get notification of new followers, but some notice of unfollows would be very helpful to me.
*(although currently, 4-10-08 to 4-12-08, the new follower notices are broken and I'm not even receiving those).
I’m Eager
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Inappropriate?um, Eric? The use case is...people want it because they...want to know who has stopped following them. That's called "feedback". It's a valid use case all its own without requiring a technical/commercial "usage" as a "case".
People want to know if someone has stopped following them so they can investigate the reason. The person finds they post too much? too little? something offensive? By not providing this information, people have no feedback in this system to adjust their posts if they wish to keep followers.
I’m unimpressed with tekkie arrogance, as usual, requiring people to jump over barrels.
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Inappropriate?I think perhaps you've misunderstood me. If I came off as arrogant, I apologize. I was simply trying to dredge up ideas so Twitter would have a reason to make this change.1 Comment Add a comment
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Eric, the challenge here is to come up with a reason Twitter would NOT want to make this change. And it's a deep philosophical problem for all social media. Facebook doesn't notify you when a friend leaves; Second Life doesn't notify you when someone cuts your friendship card. And so on. Yet people wish to have this. The only reason not to provide it is so that the people who leave aren't going to suffer any kind of follow-up spam or retaliation. But on the other hand, it's a piece of information that the system really has no justification to obscure. Some much fuss is made about following/friending/blocking blah blah, that not to have the opposite information become available is just a strange contrivance that grew out of unexamined social media rituals that nobody debated.
