Last week I pulled the trigger and clicked the “Protect my updates” box on the Twitter settings page. This means that unless I am following you, or specifically let you follow me, you won’t get my twitter updates.
I did this when I realized I had something like 448 “followers”. Now, I may be popular, but I’m thinking some of those are fake. For instance, BestPornSites, FeedMeLinks, Twittter_Dating are probably not real people who are interested in what I’m doing. There are dozens and dozens of obvious ones like these. And others, like chicka89 are pretty dubious. A lot more may be real people, but may not. I have no idea. Anyway, with Twitter struggling as it is, I figure if I cut down the amount of updates they have to send out for me to a tenth of what it was, that’s gotta help, right? If everyone did that, it should reduce the load. Actually, I have no idea if that would help the specific load problem Twitter is having, but I’m just going with it.
If you were getting my tweets and you are now not, and you are really upset about this, sorry. You can always email me and beg to be put on my special list. But come on, I’m really not so interesting that you should be getting that upset in the first place. 🙂