UPDATE : Twitter has restored full functionality to the unfollow feature on both @aplusk and @cnnbrk.
If you have not noticed CNN and Ashton Kutcher are doing a battle on twitter. As of today April 16, 2009 Twitter has removed the ability for you to unfollow @aplusk or @cnnbrk.
I can understand where twitter is going considering they do not want to loose a user base or active users after this little contest. The real question however is it right for twitter to remove the ability for you to unfollow certain people? In my opinion No. Regardless of what is at stake the users should still maintain the ability to choose what updates they get and what updates they can do without. By twitter forcing a user who has 1. Mistakenly followed or 2. Someone who got caught in the moment and really does not care for either party is wrong and I feel sorry for the people who got suckered into this little battle and now will have to put up with these twitter updates. (Honestly not what I want in my twitter client)
The internet is a place for individuality and the conversations about what is right or wrong will always be common place. Give us your opinions by leaving a comment or by adding #apluskcnnbrk in your twitter update.
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