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If you're on Twitter and you haven't heard of Twitshirt yet, it's time you did. I won't do them the honor of giving an actual like, but they don't make themselves hard to find. The basic idea is this: You give them twenty dollars, and they send you a t-shirt with your favorite tweet on it, no matter who actually wrote it. They soothe their consciences by setting aside fifty cents for the author of the tweet, if they ever bother to go find out that there's some measly amount of money available to them. And of course you can block your tweets from being printed on t-shirts! Just send them your username and password.
If you're not a little angry yet, please read that again a couple times.
I don't know if there will be a shitstorm about this. On the one hand, I kind of hope there is, because then they might get the picture that there's some moral and perhaps even legal issues in their business model. On the other hand, the level of maturity I see in shitstorms on the internet is rarely what I expect to actually create change. So there's a few simple steps to follow.
1. Change your Twitter password. I recommend "DontShirtMeBro".
2. Go to the Twitshirt opt-out page and enter your username and new password.
3. Change your Twitter password back to its usual highly-secure self.
4 (And this is the most important one to me). Send them an @ message, DM, or email saying that their service should be opt-in, rather than opt-out. Be polite, and only use words you'd hear on the Disney channel. Be outraged, be forceful, but be eloquent.
5. Encourage others to do the same.
Presumably as their blacklist and @ reply box fill up, they'll get the picture.
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If you're not a little angry yet, please read that again a couple times.
I don't know if there will be a shitstorm about this. On the one hand, I kind of hope there is, because then they might get the picture that there's some moral and perhaps even legal issues in their business model. On the other hand, the level of maturity I see in shitstorms on the internet is rarely what I expect to actually create change. So there's a few simple steps to follow.
1. Change your Twitter password. I recommend "DontShirtMeBro".
2. Go to the Twitshirt opt-out page and enter your username and new password.
3. Change your Twitter password back to its usual highly-secure self.
4 (And this is the most important one to me). Send them an @ message, DM, or email saying that their service should be opt-in, rather than opt-out. Be polite, and only use words you'd hear on the Disney channel. Be outraged, be forceful, but be eloquent.
5. Encourage others to do the same.
Presumably as their blacklist and @ reply box fill up, they'll get the picture.
click
