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Twitter is shutting down autofollow
You may have run across certain Twitter users who follow you back right away, as if they have some sort of autofollow feature turned on. They do, actually, but not for much longer. Autofollowing has never been available to everyone, it was only turned on for users who sent a special request to Twitter's support team. Now, Twitter's getting rid of it entirely. The email, sent by Twitter boss Biz Stone to all of the autofollow-enabled users, said that "We're going to discontinue autofollow because this behavior sends the wrong message. Namely, it is unlikely that anyone can actually read tweets from thousands of accounts which makes this activity disingenuous." I think Biz is right on the money with this one. If you care enough to follow someone, you should care enough to do it by hand. His message also says that Twitter will work with developers of apps that require mutual following to work, which is a good move on Twitter's part.
[via TechCrunch]
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Subscribe to commentsMichael RoseApr 2nd 2009 7:39PM
I got one of those emails -- but since the autofollowing for the account in question is being handled by TweetLater, I'm not sure that the change is going to have any specific effect.
quantaApr 2nd 2009 10:58PM
Good idea. It was a vector that spammers used to gain exposure quickly.