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Filter the Twits

@toddsimpson: I am a fairly recent twit, so I have not figured out how to get this into 160 chars or less.

I have noticed that about 5% of twits create at least 75% of the traffic, which has been documented before.  One minute I want to stop following that 5%, as it starts to approximate spam, and the next minute I am interested in what they have to say.  So, the real problem is that they are peppered throughout my timeline, all the time.

Here is my suggested fix.  Modify the timeline so that I can easily control if I only see the most recent tweet from a person, or all of the tweets.  This could be done with a simple "+" or "-" icon next to the persons image.  If I switch a person to "-" then I will only see their most recent tweet.  If they are on "+" they are interleaved into the timeline as per usual.

#MostRecentTweetOnly

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