#FF00AA

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?)