Block-with-Timeout for Twitter
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I need a new command in Twitter -- a temporary unfollow, or viewed another way, a block-with-timeout. Same idea. 
I need it when someone is at a conference I don't care about, live-blogging every detail. After 30 or 40 updates, I gotta stop it, it's interfering with other posts. But I don't want to complain. I just want to go silently. But tomorrow when the event is over, I want to (silently) resume the follow.
Problem with normal unfollow, is that: 1. I have to remember to re-follow and 2. When I do, they'll get an email. This is confusing and can cause hurt feelings. Not my intention. I just don't want all the details of this conference (or someone live-blogging an event I'm watching live or on TV).
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