| I happened to stumble upon an application today and | | | | others to a potential rotten apple! |
| was pleasantly surprised at what it offered. | | | | - I can also click the Block and Report Spam link. |
| MyTweeple allows you to sync with your Twitter | | | | When I do this, a notation appears right below this |
| account and show you lots of information about | | | | listing that says, "Blocked and Reported." |
| who's following you: | | | | There are some other things you can do for this |
| This happens to be the first one that came up for | | | | follower as well: |
| my Twitter account but I think it's a great example | | | | - Hide. Allows you to hide the person on your list |
| of why you will want to use this application. If you | | | | without blocking them. |
| look at this, you can almost instantly tell this is NOT | | | | - Private Tags. Allows you to enter tags that |
| someone I want as as follower nor do I want to | | | | characterize this person and that only you can see. |
| follow. Here's why: | | | | Not really sure what you would put here: i.e., friendly, |
| - No picture. This is a big giveaway that this is | | | | likes to chat, lives near Auntie Em, etc. |
| probably someone spamming. | | | | - Public Tags. Same as private only the whole word |
| - I am NOT following this person. | | | | can read these. I guess this would be information |
| - There have only been 2 tweets: another indicator | | | | that would let others know why the would/would |
| that this is probably not a true follower. | | | | not want to follow or be followed by this person. (I |
| - Read the description. Obviously, trying to sell me | | | | entered a public comment for a friend and I have |
| something (domain names). | | | | yet to figure out where/how that comment appears. |
| - Recent Tweets. Well, I already know there has | | | | I'll keep looking.) |
| only been 2, and when I mouseover this option, it | | | | - Notes. This is a 255 character, free form field in |
| shows me those tweets - and what lovely tweets | | | | which you can enter notes for yourself. There must |
| they are (trying to sell me domain names). | | | | be some reason why the "Private Tags" feature isn't |
| - When I mouse over the Lists option, this is what I | | | | sufficient. |
| see: While I realize that not everyone is on a lot of | | | | You also have fields to Search for someone in |
| lists (I think I am only on a few), this is just another | | | | particular, or sort your followers by name, updates, |
| red flag.) | | | | friends, and followers. |
| But now here's where it gets good. There are a | | | | Personally, I think this is the one application that |
| couple of things I can do to "flag" this person as a | | | | Twitter should have inside of it's own application. It's |
| spammer. | | | | a lot more comprehensive than anything Twitter has |
| - I can click the link that says, Ding 'em. As you can | | | | now and I think it's really quite helpful (even without |
| see by the description, this is one way to alert | | | | a user guide to know every little thing it does). |