Twitter today removed the feature where you can see tweets from people you follow if they tweets where targeted at those you are not following.

This is totally horrible. And here is why.

This is the only way i know that someone is a real person, actually that is one of the better ways of finding good ppl to follow on twitter. Instead of all these loser accounts with 8000 followers and 3 tweets.

When i see a follower tweeting at someone, at least i can tell, hey this person is at least worthy of a conversation.

This is much better method then the horrible / nasty #followfriday #followmonday #follownow #womentofollow, etc… deal that happens every week. See: http://samerforzley.com/2009/03/05/twitter-followfriday-lets-make-a-deal/