“Justine Bateman Angry At The Internet”
This is so awesome. Twitter’s “Project Retweet,” which embeds entries retweeted by your contacts directly into your timeline, has only been shortly available for some VIPs as a beta test, and already one of those unwitting VIPs freaked out when her timeline was polluted by tweets from people she doesn’t follow — assuming the retweeted authors had just managed to game the system and force their tweets upon her.
I don’t know what kind of deal you cut with TwitterBerry or how much it cost you, but suddenly you’re on my Twitter feed and I NEVER OPTEN TO FOLLOW YOU nor do I wan to.
To be fair, this is probably as much her specific application’s fault as it is Twitter’s (it’s up to the app to display in a clear way that the message is a retweet, and I can imagine that a BlackBerry app unwisely left it out to save some pixels), but the point is: this is a case of a lambda user being right, and “Project Retweet” has always been a bad idea.
I can’t wait to see how Twitter reacts. (That’s what beta-testing is about, isn’t it?)
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