There doesn’t seem to be any mechanism to do so other than ignore the request (not good for business) and since their full name isn’t shown, I don’t know how to find the person, otherwise. I would hate to have to sign up for twitter just to say I don’t want to be on it.

I have to keep updated in too many networks to add another constant interruption especially when I’m in deep research mode. Linkedin is much more effective for my business needs.

I believe you are right to write about twitter give an introduction to what it is, its uses and let your audience who wants to check it out, I would even say you can then go on and reference to it occasionally within other content but you run a risk of becoming the car salesman trying to sell a car too hard. With regular similar posts as to why you personally love twitter and its benefits to you and your website it could be taken as ramming it down peoples throats. I think most tech-heads are generally inquisitive by nature so after your first post on twitter they had a pretty good idea what its about and probably went there to take a look and decide for themselves. Not everyone will like it or have use for it, that doesn’t mean they are falling behind with technology.

i think you are right to talk about social media and trends of technology, but try not to focus on any one service too much and try to sell it to your audience too hard. I truly believe the best articles on this site are the daily tips which offer good advice to do something more efficiently or a new website or tool that may be of use to someone. I like the editorials too to keep up on news trends and where tech is going but I don’t think twitter is the be all and end all of future technology. I do not see the benefit to myself personally of reading what other people are thinking or doing 24/7, I don’t mind reading big updates on facebook status which is updated less often in general and usually a brief summary of their day or major events in one sentence but an hour by hour account of someone’s trip to the shops for example I can do without and as for the links to new content I can get that from all my favourite sites by RSS and newsletters anyway.

Liking twitter is not a prerequisite of moving forward with technology, there are many other directions and things happening in tech of much greater significance, most of which im pleased to say get good coverage here at PC Mech. Keep up the good work.

Here’s a hint. Back button is on the top left. Back out of the article and choose another one to read. There are over 3,600 articles on this site. If 3 are about Twitter, I think you’ll live.

PCMech is a GENERAL tech blog. Well, Twitter is part of the landscape, like it or not. As I said in my post, part of my job is to drag people forward. If you expect PCMech to talk about CPUs and motherboards all day, then you’ve got the wrong site. Sure, we’ll talk hardware. But, we’re also going to talk about what you do with that hardware.

Unless you bought a computer just so you can sit and tweak it all day. I highly doubt it.