Twitter Doghouse Lets You Temporarily Dump Annoying Tweeps

Are you a non-sports fan but know there's that one Olympic nut in your Twitter network who will be constantly posting pseudo analysis, lame jokes and failed bon mots for the next two weeks? Maybe you've got a friend who's on vacation and posting way too many Foursquare check-ins, or know someone who insists on live-tweeting every episode of The Bachelor.

It could be time to put them in the Twitter Doghouse. That's the name of a new app that lets users unfollow tweeps for scheduled periods of time to jokingly call out obnoxious behavior or seriously avoid Twitter-centric events of limited interest to the non-involved (SXSW, anyone?).

Twitter Doghouse was created by developers Elan Dubr…
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