Neven Mrgan makes some great points about the new twitter t-shirt service launched by Airbag today.
Here we go again.
A few months ago, a web business called ChoiceTweets sold shirts with funny tweets on them. They even scraped some popular-tweet websites to offer a guaranteed selection of clever bon mots. This was widely criticized, and rightly so - who gave them the right to scrape Merlin’s Twitter feed and sell merch buoyed by his wit? Offering an opt-out program was mocked still further - as Cameron Hunt put it, running a legal business is not a 2.0 feature.
Today, Airbag Industries, a respected and loved web company, pulled the same exact boner. They launched TwitShirt, premised as above. Cameron’s criticism is even better this time:
Dear Airbag: how about I sell your website designs for $50 bucks a pop. You get $1 for each, or to opt-out, just give me your FTP passwords.
