Muting is bad because it allows you to fake the costly signal of following people you may (painfully) disagree with.
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@othercriteria (On other hand, this is what I do when I like somebody in real life but honestly find their tweeting mind-numbingly boring.)
8:17 AM - 16 Sep 2015
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