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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:59:38 +0000

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By: deie

deie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:37:17 +0000

you said it yourself.

By: Steve Rumsby

Steve Rumsby — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:04:14 +0000

Which would be interesting if you followed people only to get them to follow back. I follow people because of what they have to say. Whether or not they follow me back is irrelevant to how interesting I find their content.

By: Tony Beach

Tony Beach — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:06:00 +0000

I use TweetSpinner.com…people that you follow that don't follow you back can be purged easily 50 at a time……works great!

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links for 2009-05-11 | Seth Goldstein Online — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:01:38 +0000

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Sat, 09 May 2009 11:08:14 +0000

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By: Steve Rumsby

Steve Rumsby — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:50:31 +0000

You have used "followers" where you meant to use "friends" (or "followees" at least). This makes the above confusing. Making the obvious corrections:

Blocking people who have a lot of friends (i.e. who follow a lot of people) is a bit of a primitive test. There are plenty of such people who aren't spammers. People with a high friends/followers ratio (who follow a lot of people but don't have many followers) are much more likely to be spammers. That's the test you should be applying. Even then, I'm not sure of the value of blocking people. How does having spammers as followers affect you? Applying this test before you follow somebody makes a lot more sense…

By: rob williams

rob williams — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:44:53 +0000

I don't know I understand why blocking people is a big deal. I mean, they are following. So what? Why keep them from my content? Even if they are spammers, I just don't follow them and they can't touch me.

Only thing I can think of is they could RT my stuff to bait to their profile to then spam?

What's your thought on blocking? why do it?