Great! This should set them up next year to sell me an "enhanced membership."

See who's muting your tweets for just $$$.

Then the "PRO" membership. Unmutable tweets! Just $$$$$.

I see something more devious

If you want a ton of followers you follow and mute EVERYONE so you see nothing yet get a buttload of followers in return.

Evil

I hope they put a limit on the number of mutes per account to stop this abuse as it'll happen if they don't.

Actually, incrediBILL, I think Twitter may be the one being devious here. If someone is constantly getting muted then they must be less influential than their sheer numbers suggest. Gathering data like this is always a driving factor with such changes.

I assume it will be something like the Follow on Facebook where you can still be friends but not have to hear what they are ranting about daily.

Yes, it works well on Facebook, BUT Facebook is different.

I use Facebook to follow people I know in real life. Removing them from my friends because they post too much (the commonest reason) or post stupid stuff (the next commonest) is awkward to say the least. It also means I would lose the most important function of Facebook - a point of contact.

Twitter is different. Twitter is mostly about following public content and there are fewer personal relationships involved. There is also a much greater incentive to increase follower numbers for the same reason, so I am sure we will see what IncrediBill predicts.

Twitter and FB blindly copy each other features regardless of whether they are useful in the context of a very different service.

That would be nice. I've had to remove quite a few followers due to overspamming my twitter feed.