Remember Twitter’s plans to make “retweeting” an official function?
Sure you do, the mock-ups looked like this:
Well, Twitter just announced the following:
You’re already careful about what you say on Twitter, right?
I mean, you read my advice on reputation management, so you know not to go around tweeting defamatory tweets in the name of "fun."
Right?
After 11 years, the not-for-profit group Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers–which we all know as ICANN–is becoming more independent.
It seems that getting itself acquired by Adobe isn’t enough to keep the web analytics giant Omniture busy.
I know it may appear I go looking for trouble, but I promise you I just like to share with you my concerns. In the case of Twitter’s update to its Terms of Service, I started thinking about what the changes could mean to us users.
I’ve always maintained that it’s dangerous to take a single Marketing Pilgrim post and assume you understand our sentiment and bias towards any one company. If you read yesterday’s criticism of WordPress, you’d think we were “automattic” haters.
Today, you’d be eating humble pie.
You know how I love a good conspiracy theory, so try this one on for size.
There’s just one problem with the chart below:
If you ever see a Twitter pop-up message that looks like the following:
RUN! Close down your browser, turn off your computer, do not pass “Go”, do not collect $200!
I love Twitter. I’ve also personally met co-founder Biz Stone, and he’s a great guy. That said, it does appear that they’ve strayed from their normal play book and are instead reading from the lesser-known Clue(less) Train Manifesto.
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