>>Hmmm ... it could be highly uncomplementary to be placed on someone's "twit" filter. :-)

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OTOH, if done discretely, the person twitted never is aware of it, and it's done for my comfort and not theirs. They can pointedly ask me if they're on my twit filter, and since I have no intention of responding, except perhaps in private to someone not on my twit list to let them know they're not twitted, I just didn't have an answer, or someone else had answered, or I missed their post. Deciding to place someone on my twit filter is not an atempt to annoy them, it's an attempt to keep me from getting annoyed. And I have a feeling the people who did make the list either knew I'd rather not deal with them to begin with, will add me to theirs, or will never notice the change except that I seem to have stopped expressing my opinions in direct response to what they say.
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>Again, it violates the basis of how a twit filter does it's job to chuckle and chortle over the list of people you've decided you're better off without. Presumably, you're better off without them...

Perhaps I should not have put the smiley after my statement. I meant it as a disarmament of the statement, not to poke fun at anyone who might be placed on someone's twit list.

Personally, I could see no reason to place anyone on the list unless they were 1) annoying/obnoxious/rude/etc. or 2) just made gobs ( i.e. an unreasonable amount ) of posts with no relevant info in them thus causing me to have to spend an inordinate amount of time sifting posts for useful info or relevant questions to be answered. If I was placed on someone's twit list because they felt I met either of these criteria, I would want to know so I determine why and try to rectify the situation.