Dear Twitter,
Everything about you is angled towards simple, efficient minimalism -from 140 characters to the lists feature to the nifty little “retweet” icon that you created. Why do you insist on borrowing clutter from Facebook? Not only have you littered my sidebar with the new “Who to Follow” feature, but you have killed, on some fundamental level, the very organic way in which I like to find new information (or followees, if you will). There is a certain amount of fun in raiding someone else’s feed for clever anecdotes or interesting links, which ultimately might lead me to follow someone new. I like Twitter because it’s streamlined and for the most part, I only have to see the information that I have chosen to see (i.e. from the people I personally have handpicked to follow). Twitter, you are not a social network. You are an information exchange network. Why must you change your mind and add to the information overload that your users didn’t have to be subjected to prior to this new feature?
Please change it back… or at least add a “Hide” function so that we don’t have to look at it if we don’t want to.
