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Twitter Filters Out Some Noise

By Simon Fodden

In what it is describing as a “small settings update” Twitter has altered the flow of blurts such that we no longer see public replies to people that we’re not following — those @doofus Well, not on your nellie! messages that simply cluttered up your flow. I am mightily pleased. (Others, not so much.) My position is that there are plenty of ways of learning about interesting folks to follow, and sometimes the irrelevant noise from some of the chattier folk I once followed made the whole exercise a painful process. Now I might actually consider going back to invite them into my stream again. Eavesdropping on other peoples’ conversations was never really one of the things that amused me.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).