Twitter Changed Stuff, Didn’t Tell You, Opted You In

Last night I noticed I got an e-mail from Twitter about someone replying to one of my tweets, strange I thought. I checked my e-mail, lo and behold, surely it was true. Twitter had added / enabled new notification options which sent an e-mail when anyone replied to a tweet, tweets are retweeted or are mentioned in a tweet. That’s great, but shouldn’t Twitter at least have told us in advanced first?

This stinks of the Facebook like opt in by default situation they had when they launched places, groups and all the other cock-ups Facebook has done in relation to privacy. Although not as serious, it is very annoying. I use Tweetdeck on my desktop to keep track of exactly those very things. Why not just inform me on the webpage somewhere, put it out in an e-mail or some sort of tweet even before going about with these changes?

If this does annoy you like it does me, then you can easily turn these e-mail alerts off to your liking. Just go to the Settings > Notifications option on your Twitter account to enable / disable as you prefer. Simple solution, but really, it shouldn’t be like this.