Twitter Engineer's Tweet Causes Him Payne

Here is the since-deleted tweet that became the source of angst for Payne:

If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)

First, the tweet spawned a post on TechCrunch discussing the reaction by developers, especially those involved with third-party Twitter clients such as Tweetdeck and Seesmic.

Now, according to GigaOM, Payne is shuttering his personal blog, saying on Twitter that the TechCrunch post “certainly pushed me to consider how I communicate.”

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