Ok, I've taken the title of this blog from someone else's post but I agree with the sentiments it puts out.
Recently Twitter have made a "Small Settings Change" to the way twitter works.
This "Small Settings Change" mentioned on the twitter blog isn't optional, its been forced down your throat and you have to swallow the fundemental changes they have made to the way twitter functions by removing the partial discussions aka replies between people, you can still see mentions IE @usernames in the middle of text, but following random people your friends know through reading conversations and thus extending the social web seems to be a thing of the past.
While I may not know the technical reasons for the changes its already started a huge wave to move across the twitterverse, various Retweets (RTs) and hashtags (#fixreplies) are already in circulation to make the point of how they disagree with the new changes to the way twitter functions.
This fundementally prevents people taking part in conversations that spark their interest between their friends and "new" friends they could find through further conversations. Maybe its just me but I don't like what they are doing
Anywhoo, I've got an exam tomorrow to finish preparing for, catch you all later
Theres a few things i want to talk about today.
Number 1: SUCS desktops now are all running W:ET which is either going to be a lot of fun or severely reduce my work-rate when i'm at uni... YAY :D We've reactivated the Gameserver W:ET Server so there is scope for having 8 people in the room connecting to non-campus people for big gaming sessions - Awesome!
Number 2: People have been commenting that often i seem down recently. There are 1001 reasons for this depending on the time of the day you see me and on which day. If you actually really care i may well properly ponder the reasons... otherwise meh.
Number 3: I was linked earlier to a slashdot article by Andy Price (welshbyte): http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/05/2349240 Quite a few of the guys on Milliways (the sucs bbs talker - non members can talk on it too :D ) were commenting on it. The general consensus was that the report was done by a company with tiies to Microsoft.
Well thats about it this week. I'll catch you all anon.