Tweetcaster Offers Solution For Temporary Relief From Unbearable Friends

There’s a fine line between “I just want you to shut up for one damn minute” and “I’m going to unfollow you.” Or, at least, that’s the premise of a new feature introduced by Handmark for Tweetcaster Thursday, called, appropriately enough, “Zip it.”

And literally enough, the feature actually displays a zipper graphic in place of those “zipped” users and hashtags when next they appear in your stream.

We’ve all experienced friends going on drunken rants, having our Twitter streams blown out by their serial posting.

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