Wayne D's Blog

When I found out I was going to be in San Jose I decided to see if my Twitter friend shoppingnotes wanted to tweetup for lunch. I went to her profile and was shocked to see that her account had been suspended and is being investigated for "strange activity". WTF? ShoppingNotes posted links to her blog articles on Twitter. On her blog she writes about deals, primarily with women in mind. Stella McCartney dresses on EBay, skin care products, designer shoes at half price. In short the sort of things women on a budget who want be fashionable are interested in. Evidently other Twitter users find this valuable as she has more followers than people who are following her.

She tells me Twitter has labelled her as antisocial. Now I know some antisocial people on Twitter and Shoppingnotes is not one of them. If people found her antisocial and her tweets of no value then they wouldn't follow her. I don't need Twitter to tell me who is antisocial, they should concentrate on the extremely offensive or extremely rude people like the person who was attacking Ariel Waldman and let the community decide whether someone is antisocial or irrelevant and not follow them. Come on Twitter, give me back my Shoppingnotes! What can you do to help? If you are a Twitter user go to http://twitter.com/help and tell them you don't need them to tell you who is antisocial, but be nice about it. Pissing them off does no good. (update August 28th) Evidently Twitter reconsidered as ShoppingNotes Twitter account is not suspended anymore, Thanks Twitter!

In the interest of journalistic integrity I must disclose that we did manage to meet for lunch while I was in San Jose, she paid, over my great protests, but that has not influenced me in the least.