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Blocked from retweeting?

By Dave Winer on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:16 PM.

Earlier this evening I tried to retweet something, and got this message:  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

You have been blocked from retweeting this user's tweets at their request. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

If you don't believe me, here's a screen shot. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

All kinds of thoughts come up. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

1. I didn't know you could do that. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

2. Is it in the user interface? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

3. If not, how do you get this done? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named cf.gif4. Why would someone want to do this? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

5. Retweeting seems pretty neutral. Not? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Anyway, I did a Google search and found it has come up before, so I'm not the only one. But not very often, which seems to indicate there is no user interface for it. Very odd. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

BTW, "just blocking them" is not an answer, because a friend who I don't want to unfollow frequentlly RT's the person who has me blocked from RT'ing. If it gets annoying enough I guess I will have to unfollow the friend who I don't want to unfollow.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Also, it's that his tweets are private, they aren't. I am not following him. Another friend is retweeting them. Unless their "privacy" includes this feature, they aren't private.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

In case it isn't obvious, Twitter is a morass of inconsistent rules about when it should and shouldn't show you stuff, and makes you block people when you have no interest in blocking them just to get another feature that comes along with blocking.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.
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