I don’t know why, but I really don’t like software attempts to tell me who I’m friends with, and/or who I should be friends with.. The new Twitter “Who To Follow” widget drives me nuts, for two reasons:
- The fact that its just based on people that I follow and that follow me, what does that mean now a days, people follow others for the most outrageous reasons (to get a follow back, to get attention from that person, to send that person a DM, because that person asked), rarely is it because they are genuinely interested anymore..
- I am one of the few people who still use the twitter homepage, and I am used to the link to my mentions being in one spot, now its 300 pixels lower, which throws of my ability to quickly check it – my mouse is on auto-pilot to the old spot
So today I figured I’d try something, something to try and get the stupid thing to go away.. and, IT WORKED!
Twitter will replace suggestions with another if you click the ‘x’ icon by the users, within a few clicks the javascript will fail and you will be down to one suggestion, so do the same to the one that is left. Shortly you’ll have no suggestions when the javascript fails for both, refresh the page, rinse, and repeat. For me, all it took was 3 or 4 refreshes – taking a total of about 3 minutes to remove the “Who To Follow” widget.
I have no idea if it will come back, but I am satisfied for now.