Submitted by Aditya Sanyal on November 11, 2009 - 1:43pm.
I have felt the wrath of unicasters on my timeline. as a rule i don't follow people who have a huge number of following / followers. these people typically use twitter as an enforced RSS feed for their followers. I hesitate to mark them as spam, since i can choose not to follow them, but it pains me to see how they waste such a chance to interact with people who matter to them. I have blogged about unicasters, and my suggested feature to make the lives of the victims, here - http://adityasanyal.blogspot.com/2009/11/block-twitterfeed-from-twitter....
At 216 slides, 'The Real Life Social Network' by Paul Adams takes a fair bit of time to wade through, but it does offer some interesting insights into the various ways in which identity, context and connections play...
unicasters
I have felt the wrath of unicasters on my timeline. as a rule i don't follow people who have a huge number of following / followers. these people typically use twitter as an enforced RSS feed for their followers. I hesitate to mark them as spam, since i can choose not to follow them, but it pains me to see how they waste such a chance to interact with people who matter to them. I have blogged about unicasters, and my suggested feature to make the lives of the victims, here - http://adityasanyal.blogspot.com/2009/11/block-twitterfeed-from-twitter....