Jack Repenning's dashboard

I had seen the notes that "support" would not come until 2.0, but I'm surprised to find that my Tweetie/Mac/1.2.4 doesn't even SEE these retweets. My Tweetie/iPhone/2.0 sees them.

Even in 2.0, I don't seem to see any way to *send* one of these limited, no-annotation, magic-linked retweets.

Which I guess is OK with me, because I don't much like this new idea of Twitter's anyway.

Wait, wait, wait. "Flirting with ideas" is what you do around the coffee pot. When it reaches the point of actually making the kind of calls that have been repeatedly reported, it's not flirting any more. Maybe it's aberration, maybe it's a rogue salesman or three, or maybe it's extortion; the anecdotes aren't enough to resolve that, but they're more than enough to document that this moved beyond "flirtation." This is not about "jumping to conclusions." This is documented behavior, repeatedly and consistently documented.

And this is not about "size." Plenty of socially connected, socially aware companies are larger than Yelp!, and haven't had such incidents.

What this is about, what "every social-networking-type business is destined to meet," is transparency. Social networking type customers network, socially. If you step into this space, you can't expect to hide the details of how you act, and you can't expect to hide how you react to the reaction. When Yelp! posted (on their "Myths" page) denials of what was being reported, they were covering up. Cover-up is not an acceptable response. There are a number of acceptable responses, like "oh, you're right, we'll stop" or "that was never policy, we've chastised the offenders" or even "we can't find any evidence, can you provide more details." But denial of what is established is only wool-pulling. It's not acceptable in any business milieu, but social networking means it's very much less likely to work.

"Me, too." To be clear, at least in my case, the blue dot remains in place even after all the tweets are "dimmed" because I selected them (which is the way I have that pref set). I can make it clear by displaying some other thing, like switch from "Timeline" to "Mentions." I can sometimes(?) make it clear by up-arrowing off the top of the timeline. And, sometimes, it seems to go away on its own, but never very promptly (maybe, on the next update?). The dot is displaying local info; there should be enough info to turn it off at exactly the same moment as the last tweet is dimmed.

I agree, some sort of control to make all tweets as read would be good.

I would rather indicate that I've read things explicitly (the current "select a tweet to show you've read it" is fine for individual tweets).

Yelp denies this, in their "Myths" page: http://www.yelp.com/myths

However, reports continue to surface regularly:
http://snurl.com/g16gn
http://snurl.com/g16in
http://snurl.com/g16jq