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Twitter is shutting down autofollow
You may have run across certain Twitter users who follow you back right away, as if they have some sort of autofollow feature turned on. They do, actually, but not for much longer. Autofollowing has never been available to everyone, it was only turned on for users who sent a special request to Twitter's support team. Now, Twitter's getting rid of it entirely. The email, sent by Twitter boss Biz Stone to all of the autofollow-enabled users, said that "We're going to discontinue autofollow because this behavior sends the wrong message. Namely, it is unlikely that anyone can actually read tweets from thousands of accounts which makes this activity disingenuous." I think Biz is right on the money with this one. If you care enough to follow someone, you should care enough to do it by hand. His message also says that Twitter will work with developers of apps that require mutual following to work, which is a good move on Twitter's part.
[via TechCrunch]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
