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		john2x on March 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensiv... I'm no iPhone user so I'm curious as to why this is such an issue? As far as I can tell it's just ads in a free app? (unless, it's not free then it makes more sense)

ceejayoz on March 21, 2011 [–]

Many of us paid for $3 Tweetie (and $3 for Tweetie 2) because it was by far the best Twitter client for iOS. It's free now, but we paid for it.

The statements from Twitter that people shouldn't build new Twitter clients coming out in the same week made the backlash worse, too.

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