Source: Michael Rosenwald, Washington Post ( Free Registration )

Esthela Gonzalez’s friends are talking to her, but she’s not listening.

The chatter is coming at Gonzalez not over a cup of coffee or at Five Guys, but through her iPhone, on Twitter. Gonzalez, bored by some of her friends’ blabbering, has quietly put a few of them on the social networking equivalent of time out. Using a $4.99 iPhone application called Twittelator Pro, the 36-year-old from Chantilly simply tapped a button that says “mute” and, voila, her friends’ tweets are blocked. Best of all, they’re totally oblivious that they have just been silenced.

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