Ben Brooks’ article on the way Twitter works, and the idea of how you don’t need to reciprocate a follow on Twitter, struck a chord with me.
The beauty of Twitter is the follow model itself: you can subscribe to anyone{^1]. If Gruber tweets about Baseball too much, and you don’t like baseball, you should meet my friend the unfollow button.
Extrapolating from Twitter, there’s a ridiculous sense of ‘We need better solutions to manage our signal to noise ratio”. The reality is that people tend to be all ‘subscribe subscribe subscribe’ and fail to cull the things they really don’t want. See also: Push Notifications.
Posted on Wednesday May 11th, 2011
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