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My biggest pet peeve about twitter right now is how little useful information they provide when you get a new follower via the notification emails.

How about "people you follow in common" or people "who follow both of you"? How about a digest of their last 10 tweets?. Some of this data you can't even get on the site.

They barely hit the minimum bar for a social network.

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I've only used twitter for a few weeks, but I very quickly got to the point that I just delete the notification emails without reading them. They don't have any content at all beyond the notification that there's a new follower, about half a bit of information.

I agree with the first two suggestions. I wouldn't want anything the user could generate (like recent Tweets) to be included, otherwise it's just an easy way to spam me.

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