First of all, I dislike the idea of having more than one account. It’s very easy to use the wrong account to post, we already see this with people who handle company accounts in addition to their personal one. Secondly it means you have to distribute two account names to other people, which also seems unnecessarily tedious.

I see two solutions for twitter. One is to allow tweeps to handle several accounts from one panel, but there are already clients that support this. Although easier, it’ll still leave the potential of posting from the wrong account and you still have to distribute several account names. This can however be solved if the accounts are linked and when you follow such linked accounts, you’re asked which of them you want to follow.

The second solution is to allow tweets to be tagged with a language, preferably without stealing any of your precious 140 characters. This will eliminate the problem of distributing several account names. Simply select which languages you want to tweet in your twitter settings, and a simple dropdown will allow you to specify which of the languages you want to use when you post a new tweet. When tweeps are following you, they’ll be given an option to filter which languages they want to see from your account.

Today the record labels war on illegal downloads of music took a new low. The norwegian student Even (18) shared his frustration with his Twitter followers about iTunes not letting him download the newest album from Dave Matthews Band saying something like:

I’m pissed! iTunes is only allowing downloads of the new Dave Matthews Band album if you live in the US! And they complain about pirating.

Not many minutes after Even’s tweet, Terje Pedersen from Warner Music Norway replied with something like:

Then I suggest you steal it and write about the process in your stupid brat blog. We don’t want you to get upset.

This shows the record companies lack of understanding for social media and the lack of respect for the costumers.

The norwegian twitter community has already spread the word wide and are using the hashtag #warnerfail.

Screenshot of Even’s tweet:

Screenshot of Terje’s tweet:

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This post was originally written by Thomas Moen, but after his site was dugg and hit the frontpage, it went down. This is therefore a mirror of his original article.