So it's easy as pie to follow or unfollow someone. One click on the old tweet page will do it. (I would argue Twitter needs to give us more than 20 tweeps per page, but for what we have now, it's not too bad.)
But then we have BLOCKING.
Here are three cuties, that I'm sure have nothing but the best intentions in following me… BUT. In an effort to provide value to my followers I have been checking downstream in those that follow me as well as who I follow to make sure I am deleting the scammers and pornsters.
So this trio of goodness arrived yesterday and instead of the nice big follow button, I have the "block" link. And when I click it, I get an intermediary screen like this:
Which is not a terrible thing, but it makes the process of BLOCKING require two to three times as many steps.
I can click to follow. CLICK. I can click to UNFOLLOW. CLICK. But in order to get rid of my hangers-on, I have to
1st CLICK > Block.
2nd Click "Okay, I still want to block this person"
and sometimes it doesn't take, and I have to do the whole thing again.
Why all this seriousness about BLOCKING?
So I propose that TWITTER make BLOCK as simple as FOLLOW or UNFOLLOW. Cause the riff raff out there is only going to get more intense and the value of the tweet is going to be that much harder to explain.
@jmacofearth
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