ONE37

I wrote this a little earlier regarding the announcement:

"Working toward the sustenance of some inexplicable business jargon? Fortunately for you, Twitter has yet to define a robust plan to subvert your work. So, to alay any budding concerns, you get a plucky blue badge for your product."

Ridiculous.

(http://one37.net/29/8/2012/twitter-launches-certified-produc...)

The cost for data does not dissipate, it is merely redistributed. Rather than giving your money to AT&T for your service, it will just be charged by data-heavy services - particularly as this would increase their data costs.

Furthermore, reliance upon such a system would likely give AT&T license to reduce data package size, thus harming the average smartphone user.

Although AT&T might frame this as innovation, such maneuvering is transparently self-serving. Rather than having the customer blame them for high costs and decreasing data allowances, AT&T can place the blame elsewhere.

Knowing AT&T as we do, the potential for good in this model is rather woefully undercut by its obvious potential for bad.

Wholeheartedly agreed. The !bang feature is fantastic.