Subscribe by EmailHit the “snooze” button on your over-chatty Twitter followers
April 29, 2008 by Mark O'Neill |By Mark O’Neill
I know I sometimes can’t stop talking about Twitter, but that’s because I am constantly amazed at some of the inventive apps that people come up with. The latest one had me in stitches - the ability to shut up one (or more) of your followers by hitting a “snooze” button on them.
I’m sure you know the kind of situation I’m talking about - one of your followers on Twitter is yapping non-stop to you about the messy breakup with the girlfriend. Or maybe they want your expert advice on every single piece of software they lay their hands on or every internet site they have discovered. Or maybe they just have the hots for you and won’t leave you alone.
But at the same time, you’re just too nice to “unfollow” them, or maybe there’s a bit of office politics involved - maybe the person is a paying client that you need to keep sweet or you need to keep the person happy to keep another person happy…..yeah, we’ve all been there, done that and bought a million T-shirts.
So, if you want to shut that person up for a few days to get some peace and quiet, how about hitting the snooze button on them instead? By doing so, you will be secretly blocking their tweets for the specified time period and they will be none the wiser!
I know what you’re thinking - how about the old-fashioned method of just ignoring them? Well, that might work to a certain extent, but if you are using a Twitter desktop client, say TWhirl, and the over-chatty person is sending you updates every 5 minutes, that constant ping, ping, ping will drive you nuts in no time. Much better to hit the snooze button for a few days and get some quality time in.
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You could also unfollow or even block them if they’re really misbehaving. Add them back in with good behavior.
Actually, all the app does IS unfollow them, then refollow them at a the specified timer interval. From the TwitterSnooze webpage:
[...] When that normally low key person you follow on Twitter starts flooding your timeline with tweets every ten minutes, you can temporarily unsubscribe to them using the TwitterSnooze web application. Hit the snooze button on someone for a certain number of days by entering your Twitter username, password, and the person you want to snooze into the TwitterSnooze web site. Behind the scenes, TwitterSnooze actually unsubscribes you and then resubscribes you to that person (all the while storing your password in their database!) so your snoozee may get email notifications about your temporary leave. So be warned about those key details before you hit the snooze button—still, a great way to miss a conference or “live tweet” event you’re not interested in hearing about. TwitterSnooze! [via Geeks Are Sexy] [...]
[...] Well TwitterSnooze! let’s you get back in touch with the Twitter you love by giving the people that are harshing your mellow a timeout and putting the zen back into your Twitter. Simply enter your username and password, the person you want to snooze, and how long you want them out of your hair for (between 1 and 30 days). The only real side effect is that they’ll get an e-mail update that they have been unfollowed, but you can have the fact that they’re merely being “snoozed” announced in your Twitter stream to avoid any confusion. [via LifeHacker, Geeks Are Sexy] [...]
[...] to Twitter and spend half an hour checking in on short blurbs about what my friends are doing. A blog post at Geeks Are Sexy even helps put Twitter friends on Snooze - so others must be caught up in the same time dump I find myself [...]