Twitter .v. the Agnostic Web

Posted on | November 22, 2009 | No Comments

….this kind of behaviour runs directly counter to the spirit of the Internet — which is a technology that is entirely agnostic about the uses to which it is put. That’s a feature of the system, not a bug: it’s what was designed into the architecture of the network. It’s part of its DNA.

John Naughton, commenting on a post by Dave Winer about Twitter’s suspension of one of his accounts, “….because our specialists found that your tweets were primarily links to other sites and not personal updates, a violation of Twitter Rules.” The relevant rule can be found here apparently.

As John notes, if we cannot use Twitter as ‘a kind of selective RSS feed’, which many do as a matter or course now, “…then we’ll just move on.”

Quite right too.

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