First there was Twitter’s suggested user list. An abomination Ev Williams said he’d kill as soon as the service rolled out its lists feature. Well, lists are here and the suggested user list lives on.
Then, earlier this week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told the BBC that Rupert Murdoch should be open because “the future is in openness not [being] closed.” Pot. Kettle. Black.
The very next day came Twitter COO Dick Costolo telling the RealTime CrunchUp audience about the service’s forthcoming advertising. “It will be fascinating,” said Costolo. “Non traditional. And people will love it… It’s going to be really cool.” Nothing at all vague in that hand-waving.
Now comes news that one of Dave Winer’s test accounts was suspended because Twitter’s “specialists”—wait for it—“found that your tweets were primarily links to other sites and not personal updates, a violation of Twitter Rules.”
Are you kidding? I don’t think I’m alone in using Twitter more for pre-harvested links than anything else?
So, the question of the day is, has Twitter jumped the shark? By my count it indeed has; four times.
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