" It was all part of what TechCrunch called "Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 hours."

"The Internet burst into flames upon hearing the news," reported monkey_bites, in what sounds like the opening of a bad airport-giftshop paperback. What sparked this raging inferno? On Tuesday Twitter announced what it called a "small settings update"—making it so that you see so-called @replies from people on a person's Tweet-sheet only if you are following that person. "Receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don't follow...is undesirable," Twitter's blog reasoned. Kaboom! Fuming Tweeters got so mad they launched "a tumblarity style revolt," reports Soup. Twitter responded to the rage by semi-putting things back. "There will be a temporary fix, and then an improved version of the old @reply options on the way," blogs Download Squad. "So, call off the dogs and wait to see what the new settings look like." It was all part of what TechCrunch called "Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 hours." If you go back further you could extend the awful to include a recent Nielsen report that said 60 percent of Twitter users try it for a while and don't come back. "Is this Twitter's Achilles' heel, where there aren't enough reasons to come back to the service...?" asks Software, Interrupted. Twitter—can't live with it, can't live without it. Click Read more