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Re:Twitter’s Policy Reboot: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by madeofpalk on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:34AM (#10887596)
> There really needs to be an option that users can turn on to block all @ from people they don't follow. Even temporarily, say for a period of a month at a time.

Get a blue tick :)

I have the worst source (I think I heard it on a podcast...) but I'm pretty sure that verified Twitter accounts get an extra notification option to prevent notifications or messages from non-verified users from appearing. It basically turns Twitter into a verified-users-only service where you never see the regular plebs.

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Re:Twitter’s Policy Reboot: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by frandroid on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:39AM (#10888396)
That's the behaviour, yeah. Verified accounts live in their own rareified world. The idea being that high-follower count accounts are probably more interested in chatting with their peers (most often, celebrities) than with deal with the deluge of plebeian notifications.
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