Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 4/2/2009

Next -- a one-way block. I don't care if they follow me. I just want to close the door to more turds.
People who say I don't have to follow Ellen missing a clue. The point of her tweet was to get people I do follow to tell me to follow her.
Twitter is already clogged with RT's. Next -- battles betw the million-follower celebs, to get more followers. A flood of idiocracy.
@dalzinho -- I didn't like the games the tech celebs played. But somehow those now seem innocent even quaint, now that the pros are here.
@kokoe2 -- yeah I'm pretty demoralized about Twitter. I have to see it for what it is, -- a hobby, not the future, not a creative outlet.
I've been in enough Silicon Valley board meetings to know what they're saying inside Twitter. They know early users will drop off.
It's part of the calculus. But -- it doesn't always turn out the way they think it will. I've seen that happen too.
Sometimes the users are more powerful than the insiders.
That's what made the web so exciting in the early 90s. The industry thought they had it all sewed up. Nope, not so. The users zigged.
Twitter: Feature request -- a way to turn off display of RT's in the tab-formerly-known-as-@replies. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much info.
@guykawasaki -- "small business marketers" a.k.a. "spammers."
Starbuck's painting: http://tr.im/i9Zt
New blog post: There must be some way out of here. http://tr.im/iadd
Digg now has an URL shortener. Does it have an API? http://tr.im/iamP
Digg does have an API for short urls. I'll test it in a few minutes. http://digg.com/u1ev
New blog post: Digg has a URL-shortener. http://tr.im/iaCR
New blog post: Krugman v Geithner? http://tr.im/iaGm
Tree rooted in a rock: http://tr.im/iaYN
@jny2 -- thanks (I think) but what is a comma splicer?? :-)
Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense. http://tr.im/ib64