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It's a bit bizarre. Why would someone use a service to tell them they're no longer following them rather than do it themselves? I mean, telling them in the firs
by iuguy 16y ago
It's a bit bizarre. Why would someone use a service to tell them they're no longer following them rather than do it themselves? I mean, telling them in the first place is fairly petty, but getting a service to do it for them?
Having said all that, kudos to you for building something and shipping it in a day.
- araneae 16y agoI did tweet to @newscientist that I was unfollowing them due to them putting all their tweeted articles behind a sign-in page. But it seems like it would be a rare thing.
- stephencelis 16y agoBut why do that anonymously?
- mcantor 16y agoObviously, so that you'll survive when someone writes an app that uses the Twitter API to communicate with the Blackwater Mercenary API to kill everyone who unfollows you with a snarky message. Of course, it will all fall apart when Google buys them out in a high-profile acquisition, and one of their engineers accidentally adds "walled garden" to the snark detection heuristic, which results in Facebook inadvertently putting a hit out on every single open source developer on the planet due to a mass simultaneous unfollowing in the aftermath of yet another content privacy maelstrom. Or... I dunno. It's kinda awkward, I guess. Sometimes.
- iuguy 16y agoSpot the guy who is/should be doing NaNoWriMo ;)