Update – Twitter announced through their blog that there was also a technical reason for the removal with this feature, which they “forgot” to mention before. TechCrunch seems to believe this to be a pretty big PR fail on their part, which it, well, is.
It is nice to hear that there’s some actual reason for the removal of the option, it is a bit disconcerning that they decided to not share this reason to the public before. Was it that they were afraid to seem a bit weak on the technical side, that they couldn’t handle it? Then again, they never specify what the actual problem is – not that I doubt there is one.
If nothing else though, the blog post does state that they are looking to include ways for users to discover other people to make up for the lost system. I’m interested in seeing what that might be.
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