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Re:Facebook Home – What Can Go Wrong by andrewmunsell on Thursday April 04, 2013 @04:33PM (#5495117)
He's referring to Facebook-- there's a feature where you can still be friends with someone and not see anything (or just some things) they post. It's good for obsessive Farmville/Words with Friends types to hide that activity.
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Re:Facebook Home – What Can Go Wrong by Mahn on Thursday April 04, 2013 @05:19PM (#5495369)
He refers to Facebook, but he mentions he wishes Twitter were like this, hence the question what utility would this have for Twitter.
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Re:Facebook Home – What Can Go Wrong by snowwrestler on Thursday April 04, 2013 @05:31PM (#5495431)
Same as Facebook--maintain the relationship but reduce the noise. You can only DM with followers for example.
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Re:Facebook Home – What Can Go Wrong by eterm on Thursday April 04, 2013 @06:21PM (#5495661)
Technically, you can only DM people who follow you. Whether you follow them is irrelevant.

Twitter is a pub sub model, it doesn't really make sense to want to sub but not sub. Twitter follows aren't like friendships at all, they're a "I want to see your content" marker.

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Re:Facebook Home – What Can Go Wrong by marblar on Thursday April 04, 2013 @10:25PM (#5496504)
Yes but the fact that they are publicly visible makes them serve a secondary purpose.
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