Dear Twitter, Please Change This

Article by: Lani Rosales on June 22, 2009

Dear Twitter,

I’ve been on Twitter for an crazy long time and for personal reasons, I had to change my account to a private account. As you know, when someone requests to follow me, I have to manually approve them which is great because I can be sure of who is *not* following me and no one can see my tweets in a public timeline or on a third party application because I’m private.

The problem is that it is an insane time sucker for me because I average 40 new follower requests each day and although from the approval panel I can allow them to follow by clicking “accept” or “decline” as shown below…

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…I still have to click on each user’s name in order to follow them back. Yes, I am aware that I can take the extra step to click on the people that follow me and follow them from there but would it be too much to ask to add a third button that it seems you have space for called “follow”??

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Why care?

I care because not only do I spend numerous hours daily engaging in social networks, I help others to do the same and any streamlining that can be done, especially with the uber popular Twitter network, it *has* to be pointed out. So please, Twitter, I beg of you to add the third button for those of us who have to be private. If you do, I’ll be your best friend. There, I said it.

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About the author

Lani Rosales

Co-founder of New Media Lab and new media consultant, Lani is a native Austinite (although she spent time in Mexico and Spain). She studied English Literature at the University of Texas and has an extensive background in marketing and brand building, and has lived and breathed social media for years. She's an avid Twitter user and is an influential New Media advocate.


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