[xg15]

Were you blocked?

More seriously, the events end up in a list, so a recipient would more likely "decode" them by comparing timestamps instead of "live" watching the actual sequence.

But I suppose if you timed your follows/unfollows really carefully, you could get certain patterns in the timestamps to appear which could be used to distinguish "long" and "short" pulses.

[savhascelik]

No, actually, I was just wondering if messaging like that is even possible; I suppose I’ve been reading a lot lately about encryption and private messaging in public spaces.

[xg15]

Yeah, was more a joke too :) But the idea is interesting. I think in general there is a lot of metadata that could be used as covert channels.