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Unfollowed: Twitter Ideas That Never Quite Caught On

By Bruce Carton

I like Twitter. I use it personally (@brucecarton), and also as a news feed of sorts for my publication about SEC enforcement and securities litigation issues (@SecuritiesD). But like Bill Blazejowski in Night Shift, "I'm an idea man, I get ideas, sometimes I get so many ideas that I can't even fight them off" [Note to Grasshopper Lipman: Night Shift is an old, very funny movie--you should go rent it asap]. Anyway, I've had plenty of great ideas about Twitter, some of them mischievous, some not. Unfortunately, none have caught on. My ideas to date: 1. The "Auto-Unfollow" feature: Know this -- I do not want to spend even 2 seconds reading about what you ate today. If you wouldn't come up and tell me about it if you saw me in the street, don't tell me on Twitter. The Auto-Unfollow button would let me program in all of the categories that are dealbreakers for me, and automatically unfollow any violators. Upon a violation, my Twitter feed would auto-tweet something like the following: "AUTO-UNFOLLOW. Violation Category: Food. RT @joeblow 'Just had an awesome piece of pizza at Ronnie Pizzeria. Loved it!'" 2. The Temp-Unfollow feature: Sometimes people who I like...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).