The problem with Fav Notifications and Twitter
The problem with email notifications for twitter favs, isn’t email. Nor is the problem that they are opt out, not opt in. The problem is that they exist. So many people waste characters in their bio with ” RT’s are not endorsement “, now people will add very shortly “favs are no endorsement”.
Sure there are third party apps that can grab favs, but as a general rule it isn’t something Joe Average uses. But suddenly everyone will be aware of what you do and do not fav.
At work for example I see content from people I follow that is as a rule Not Safe for Work (NSFW) and often it is amusing or interesting. Many times I just use fav’s as a bookmarking situation to read later. Other times I will fav something that I find offensive for example to read later, or just to write a ranty blog post about.
From a work perspective, any number of work accounts that I monitor may fav something in twitter, for actioning later for any number of reasons.
We have already seen cases where people have fav’d something only to have it comeback in the media as implying endorsement.
How long will it be before people are highlighting just how many times something is fav’d as some new #smeg metric as well.
Now I need a way of bookmarking tweets so that I can use them, without notifying the person that I have done so. Back to the old twitter website I go to save old fashioned bookmarks.
And with 7 Milliwheatons of followers, I am certainly going to be turning off the email notification anyway. Want to know if someone fav’d something of yours, guess what it doesn’t matter unless they told you why they fav’d it. Want to know if they RT’d you, look it up on the website.
Before you think this won’t effect you, stop and think about the last time you fav’d something that really you wouldn’t want the person to know you have.
