Twitter Caves to Political Pressure, Will Kill Suggested Users List

From PC World: Twitter's "suggested users" list will be going away, amid a California political controversy. But, should it? Is it OK to violate Twitter's freedom to promote any user it chooses to?

The AP does a very good job of stating the facts: Basically, that Twitter has promised the drop or change the list, which is presented to people after they sign-up as a way to get them started on the service.

Last month, politicos in California noticed that the list included the Democrats' gubernatorial candidates, but not the Republican candidates. Ignite minor firestorm.

Republican candidates have since been added to the list, resulting is many more followers for Republicans, the AP reports. (But, not that many).

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Monday (in Malaysia of all places) that the list, in its present form, will be going away, replaced by something "more programmatically chosen." Which seems to mean that future lists will be selected by a robot.

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