I think, whether we like it or not, we need (and are going to get) more fine grained control over the tweets we receive.

I’ve mulled this over before and have thought about “channels” where you can indicate the topic of your tweet which allows your followers to filter you better. Eg I’m interested in SEO and cats but most people are only interested in Matt’s SEO wisdom so they should be able to filter that out.

Joel

We’ll see how it works out but I think the folks at Twitter have MUCH bigger problems to focus on now vs. this kind of shake-up to their community. How about addressing the spam problems, hackers on the network (malware links) & network growth problems (I still see the failwhale)? Oh, and I would be negligent if I didn’t remind everyone that Twitter was crippled vs. Google & Facebook on the DDOS (distributed denial of service) issue two weeks ago). I am just FLOORED that they would fundamentally “attack” the community and how it has evolved vs. addressing the above mentioned issues first. They have “bigger fish to fry” right now :)

I plan on continuing the RT @ methodology :) I know others, such as Dan Zarrella, a Re-Tweet authority, are planning on doing this as well. You can check out his recent post on this at http://danzarrella.com/mangle-retweets.html

Just my 2 cents. Delete the above link if you find it spammish but I thought the link was SPOT-ON and from a highly reputable source.

Dan Ross
@BetterBizIdeas

Perhaps you could consider toning up the quality of that which you RT, being more selective, then things like this wouldn’t bother you nearly as much, eh? Your reputation is, at least in part, built on the quality of stuff you RT.

:p