Twitter Recommends Who to Follow. Or does it?
"Who-not-to-follow: Find out who I have explicitly un-followed. Do not ask me to follow them. Find out people that you have shown me that I have ignored, do not show me those people. If they have appeared 3 times on my sidebar and been ignored (less than 3 actually), that is an explicit (but no click) thumbs down."
Exactly my beef with recently-introduced Twitter's 'Who to Follow' feature. Unlike other social networks, Twitter doesn't offer you options to turn off features that you don't like or want. Probably in terms of simplicity and intuitiveness, it makes sense but as tweeting matures and advanced users want to err…tweak their usage, it may be needed.
“Twitter Recommends Who to Follow. Or does it?” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3607] was published Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 9:00 am by Patrix, filed under Asides, Web 2.0, and tagged as algorithm, feedback, social networking, Twitter. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
