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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Aug 2019
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    This protected tweets feature isn’t working as well as I hoped. Gatekeeping new follows is a big chore and without an easy way to politely cut existing follows without the violence of a block or mute, there’s no way to clean up your follows. 😕

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Aug 2019
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        Had the same problem with Facebook systematic unfriendings (that sounds so hostile... when the intent is to just create higher average closeness). Only place where it would be relatively painless is LinkedIn.

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      2. Kelly Digges‏ @kellydigges 16 Aug 2019
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        I believe you can block and then immediately unblock to force an unfollow.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Aug 2019
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        Oooohhhh Though that’s a lot of work

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      2. Chris Anderson‏ @jchris 16 Aug 2019
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        You might have to start a new account?

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      3. brrr Seitz‏ @BillSeitz 16 Aug 2019
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        Might as well move to Mastodon at that point...

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      2. Danger & Cuddlekins‏ @Chiliandgarlic 16 Aug 2019
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        Yeah, it's why every time you and others go on about Twitter being meaningful for the future, I circle around to "but it's shit"

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      3. Mike Walsh‏ @ThinkySpaceMan 16 Aug 2019
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        It’s not shit. Unit to unit relationship is pure, just like this. Focus on micro and we’re golden. 👍

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      1. Bandeauxx.‏ @bandeauxx 16 Aug 2019
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        Violence?

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      1. अचल ಹುಮಚದಕಟ್ಟೆ‏ @veganpolytheist 16 Aug 2019
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        You can remove follow by blocking and unblocking, follower will not be notified.

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      1. Alan Laidlaw‏ @alanlaidlaw 16 Aug 2019
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        Thanks sir. One less thing I have to worry about when I become a thought leader. Sidenote: I think the moniker “Paradigmist” needs to be all rage for a few weeks in SV before being supplanted by a more credentialable “Horizonolist.”

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