Scott Bush

Just got word that Netflix is rescinding their decision to eliminate account profiles. I flipped out about this just recently: I posted a blog entry, wrote them a professional—though annoyed—e-mail, and read a number of tweets by my fellow peeved Netflix users. Someone even created an online petition to keep the useful feature.

As an aside: a “tweet” is a short blurb of no more than 140 characters people write about what they’re doing. Friends then “subscribe” to these updates through a service called Twitter.com, hence the name “tweet.” Why it’s not a “twit” I don’t know. (Facebook does the same thing but calls it a status update. That’s more accurate but less cool.)

Kudos to Netflix for listening to their customers. This goes a long way in my book. Now I don’t have to dirty myself over at Blockbuster!