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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: friending</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/friending.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-07-20T10:59:18+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Friends, Followers, and Notifications</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/20/twitter/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-20T10:59:18+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-20T10:59:18+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/20/twitter/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/07/friends-followers-and-notifications.html"&gt;Friends, Followers, and Notifications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Twitter drops the confusing distinction between “friend” and “follow”—now it’s just “follow”. The less sites that demand I reduce friendship to a binary decision the better.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/friending"&gt;friending&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-networks"&gt;social-networks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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