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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Apr 2015

    The option to receive DMs from people I don’t follow on Twitter sounds like the Worst Idea Ever (tm). No idea why I’d want that.

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      2. Adiel‏ @Adiel_G 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral it's opt-in from what I'm hearing.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Apr 2015
        Replying to @Adiel_G

        @Adiel_G Yep. For now.

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      4. Adiel‏ @Adiel_G 20 Apr 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral well they could go the Facebook route where the messages go in a separate "other" inbox.

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      1. Dagan‏ @ardrigh 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral @glynmoody would certainly help company accounts dealing with customers. I assume that's who such options would be aimed at

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      1. Nathan McKinley‏ @nathmck 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral I know. Can you imagine the abuse people will get now that Twassholes™ can do it in private!

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      1. RonWatts‏ @wrongwatch 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral @glynmoody The habit of letters for words will separate readers. Schools will be MORE useless, society will crumble. DMs? (tm)?

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      2. Jeff Carpenter‏ @jeffcarp 20 Apr 2015
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        There is a big need for that in the area of customer support via Twitter. Think travel companies, utilities, etc. @the_pc_doc @aral

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      3. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes  🚀‏Verified account @the_pc_doc 20 Apr 2015
        Replying to @jeffcarp

        @jeffcarp I think businesses already had that option… I think.

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      4. Jeff Carpenter‏ @jeffcarp 20 Apr 2015
        Replying to @the_pc_doc

        @the_pc_doc Not sure. I've had a lot of awkward "follow us so we can DM you" tweets and vice versa.

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      5. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes  🚀‏Verified account @the_pc_doc 20 Apr 2015
        Replying to @jeffcarp

        @jeffcarp true, I've seen it a lot too.

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      1. Ahmed‏ @vagousa 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral It's useful for companies providing support on twitter, and it's optional, i think that.

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      1. Nicholas Frota‏ @nonlinear 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral its optional, off by default.

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      1. Jeff Porter‏ @Wordius 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral Apparently, unfollowed Twitter DMs are turned off by default: http://wrds.pw/1GbbogQ  (not clear, though)

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      1. Ariel Ben Horesh‏ @ArielBH 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral so brands can interact with you more "freely".

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      1. Gabriel Visser‏ @gvssr 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral Great for companies! And people like me with a small following.

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      1. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes  🚀‏Verified account @the_pc_doc 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral because Twitter will be able to override your preference when it comes to promoted DMs. Ugh.

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      1. Rahul Varshney 🖖 🐸 ॐ‏ @rahulvarshney 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral oh "option". i guess this is some new feature. alrighty, back to minding my own business =)

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      1. Sven Read‏ @StarBurst1977 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral Probably they want to break into the hot messaging realm. To become the public version of Slack.

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      1. Tim Pastoor‏ @timpastoor 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral Some people just want to see the(ir) world burn.

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      1. Rahul Varshney 🖖 🐸 ॐ‏ @rahulvarshney 20 Apr 2015
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        @aral i know followees can dm followers but then followers cant reply unless followee is also a follower

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