iPhone App Store Nanny State, Twitter Edition

Tue, Mar 10th, 2009

The Apple (AAPL) iPhone App approval mouse has fallen off its treadmill again.

Apple has rejected an update to Tweetie, an iPhone Twitter app, because "there's an offensive word in the TRENDS" section of Twitter's search engine, developer Loren Brichter said on Twitter. In other words, Apple blocked the new Tweetie because people on the Internet were using bad language when Apple was reviewing the app.

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