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THIS, the most important thing for me.

If I follow a guy who tweets about Databases, I don't need to know or read his thoughts about politics, his new born daughter, his outrage about X or Y or all that bullshit. I want to hear only about Databases, DB management and not the rest. I need to be able to follow @userX with #topicY exclusively.

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Exactly. Why can't the database guy add categories to his account (databases, politics, personal) and assign a category from his list each time he tweets? His followers could choose which categories to follow.

That would avoid alienating his followers, but still allow him to tweet on any topic he likes, knowing that only people who are interested in that topic would see those particular tweets.

This would be better for all parties.

You get that problem no matter what mode you follow them, unless its by way of paid for articles in the trade press. Be it blogs, Tiwtter, or some other unedited outlet, you are going to get that person raw and unfiltered.

With a blog, one would normally follow the RSS feed of a specific tag, not the entire blog.

That depends on how well tagged things are.

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