While I don't condone mass DMs (disclosure: i have a "twitter groups" site that actually allows ppl to DM to groups of people, but not all of their followers), I'm kind of on the other side of the fence here.
I wish there was a mechanism that would allow people to DM me that I *don't* follow. I want people to be able to reach me via DM w/o having to add them to my "following" and clutter up my timeline. Having a public back-and-forth userA: "@jazzychad can you follow me so i can DM you?" me: "@userA i'd rather you email me instead" userA: "@jazzychad ok, what's your email?" me: "@userA if you weren't an idiot you could find it in the bio link on my twitter profile" Dunno, maybe it's just me, but I don't want to have to follow a billion people to make it easy for them to ask me something privately. At any rate, if you don't want auto-DMs from somebody, just unfollow them. If you're too busy to unfollow somebody, you should just quit the internet entirely. -Chad On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Ed Costello <epcoste...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Nicole Simon <nee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you don't want to be DMed by certain people, dont follow them. >> If you do get something from them, unfollow. > > I'm fine with getting DM'd by *people* I follow. But I don't expect to get > DM'd by @cnnbrk or @jetblue unless I'm directly engaging them. There's no > granularity to separate getting DM'd by a friend I follow from DM'd by a bot > powering a corporate account. > Alternately, if you want the ability to spam DM everyone who follows a given > account, then there must be a corresponding feature to block DMs from > accounts one follows. > > -- > -ed costello > @epc > >
