Idiots: Apple rejects Twitter app because there's swearing on the Internet

Apple has struck a new level of bizarreness when it comes to approving submissions to the App Store. On Tuesday, Loren Brichter of atebits, developer of popular iPhone Twitter client Tweetie said via Twitter that Apple had rejected the latest update to the app because it contained an obscenity; he later confirmed that in an e-mail to Macworld.

Here’s the catch: the obscenity was in Tweetie’s Trends feature, shown at left, which scans the social networking to find the most popular keywords that people are talking about (and no, the obscenity in question was not "Kindle," smartypants). If there’s a naughty word in that section, it’s not because Tweetie’s developers put it there, but because people on Twitter were talking about it. It’s akin to rejecting the app because somebody was posting swears to their Twitter feed.

What? There's swearing on the Internet? Say it ain't so! This is ridiculous. In fact, it's so ridiculous, I can't even express how ridiculous it is. Because Apple would ban me.

If that’s the level we’re looking at here, then Safari ought to be banned for indecency because you can use it to look at porn and Apple ought to take out Notes because you can clearly write swears in that too. While we’re at it, we should probably just get rid of the whole virtual keyboard, because that’s nothing but trouble waiting to happen.

http://www.macworld.com/article/139316/2009/03/tweetie_rejection.html

Idiots: Apple rejects Twitter app because there's swearing on the Internet

Idiots: Apple rejects Twitter app because there's swearing on the Internet

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