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Twitter Takes the Kid Gloves Off for My Twitter Butler - Spammers Beware

6 Points

It's about time.

Twitter took the kid gloves off this week with third-party Twitter application My TwitterButler, an auto-follow service that will aggressively seek out and follows Twitter users, so you don't have to waste the three brain cells required to do so yourself. TwitterButler's grammatically-challenged administrator, Dean Collins, posted a blog post this week that claimed that he was being sued by Twitter (see I'm Being Sued By Twitter!). If only that were true.

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Twitter Flips the Bird at La Russa, Previews Verified Accounts

55 Points

Tony La Russa just doesn't know when (or how) to shut up.

After screaming to anyone who would listen to him two weeks back that he was suing Twitter over a username squatter (an account with, at the time, about 8 followers), Tony La Russa just hasn't been able to shut up about how badly Twitter maligned his reputation. Recently, reports have circulated that Twitter has settled the lawsuit.