These are the Tweeters who are less likely to follow-and heaven forbid a Tweet is received from someone not on their “list.” But, isn’t the ability to block followers on Twitter the solution? Why prevent a Tweet from a person not being followed, from being seen in the regular Twitter timeline? Maybe we have something important, or interesting to say. For example, I follow @SamChampion from Good Morning America. He doesn’t follow me, however, I did send him a cute Tweet, regarding something he did on GMA-and guess what? He responded. With Twitter’s changes, he would probably have missed the Tweet and a nice, little chuckle.

Those people racing to the top were probably using the “see no replies” feature, which is gone now too. What do they care if people are interacting with them? They just want followers.

I liked having the options and I don’t think they should have taken those away. We agree on that. But I don’t see them as catering to the celebrities because they’ve taken away the option to ignore ALL replies (I can imagine people like Oprah using that, too).

Perhaps they’re looking at ways to clean up their server usage? I dunno. I vote that they bring back the option for people who like to see all the replies.

I don’t and use the hashtag search to find new people to follow. Search has been a life saver for me and I really don’t want my stream cluttered with a bunch of one-sided conversation, but that’s me and my choice. Choice is always good and they should bring that back.

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