More interesting aspect of the post is Kincaids obvious lack of technical acumen. His statement that they could have just left the feature for some users only shows that he really has no idea of how the technology works. And to call bad PR on twitter is rediculous, they have oprah comming out of their ass for gods sake.

The platform doesn’t belong to anyone but Twitter – sooner the “power players” that think it does realize this, the better.

Or, just follow Scoble to Friendfeed.

Agreed. I realize they’re not a google-sized company, but they do own the microblogging space, with millions of active users. They’re still being treating this (and referred to) as a ’start up’. When do companies ’stop’ being ’start ups’? $10 million in funding? $50 million? $150 million? 500 employees? I still hear some people refer to facebook as a ’start up’, presumably because it’s not IPOd or been bought out yet.

I think it was pretty easy to figure out this was an engineering/scaling issue. Now that Twitter have ’succeeded’ in having hundreds of accounts with tens (hundreds?) of millions of ‘follow’ relationships going on, even a handful of big name people turning this option on could probably bring the system to its virtual knees. But to lie about it at the beginning (”it’s confusing, yet we’ve had it for 3 years until now”) is intellectually insulting and also somewhat of a slap in the face to the millions of pro-Oprah early adopters who helped give Twitter critical mass in the first place. “Those features that you used? New people don’t understand it, so we’re taking it away from you as well.”

Unbelievable. The only ‘good’ thing I’ve gotten out of this is that they at least backtracked a bit and admitted the real reason (technical/engineering) sooner rather than waiting a few more weeks.

since its so free, lets see how they feel when everyone leaves and starts using something else? im sure the loss of users will come out of their pockets in SOME FORM! so dont give us that BS. theyre not doing us this big favor by making twitter! obviously theres something in it for them.

Still confused…