Twitter turns brain dead

Duncan talked earlier today about this insanely stupid idea brought to you by the world’s most shoot themselves in the foot web service – otherwise known as Twitter but I missed out on the fun due to being taken out of action by a case of exhaustion. Now that I’ve had a chance to get caught up on this total insanity I thought I would add my two cents to the discussion.

To be honest though I am at such a loss of words over this stupidity that I am falling back on the old adage of a picture being worth a thousand words to express my incredulity at this move by the King of Fail Whale. First off I have to ask Twitter

Not only are you removing – and then sort of return in a half assed way – an integral part of the whole Twitter experiences you are also showing that you don’t have a clue about how Twitter has grown beyond you. This kind of ridiculousness earns you a

You then compound this original brain dead idea by slipping on a pair of John Kerry flip flops and say that we’ll get the @replies back but only if it is intentionally done. Excuse me but what kind of drugs are you all smoking?

Maybe you should be sharing so maybe the rest of us can make sense of this brain fart moment, because as it stands right now all you are doing is making everyone go

Way to go Twitter. How to screw up people and lose users. Maybe you should write up a PowerPoint outlining how best to screw up a company and alienate users. I hear Facebook might be looking for some new pointers.