Awesome! Twitter will be much more productive for the people that actually want to have good conversations without so many spam tweets in between.

Yes, this is a little close-minded/restrictive of Twitter. For example, I have a set of about 3 tweets on a 2-week cycle saying something about a cause I believe in. I will tweet about it anyway -- all I'm doing is saving myself a little bit of time by automating it. I agree with preventing spam. I agree with preventing people from doing humanly unreasonable things. However, I think letting people gain a little bit of efficiency by automating something they do anyway is reasonable. Now I have to set an Outlook reminder to go tweet about "X". How does that serve anybody???

Twitter has really dropped the ball this time.  This is just the kind of move that will cause people to leave this service.  There have been a series of egregious actions against the development and user community by Twitter and this is just one more.  It is akin to censorship.  What about all those people who have spent thousands and thousands of hours and 10's of thousands of dollars building software applications to automate business communications through Twitter. 

 There are just so many things wrong with this decision that I can't even finish my thoughts.

Its a sad day. 

I'm just curious what is the source of this information, I want to see what else came with it. Thanks! Vlad

This is something that I disagree with. Controlling SPAM'rs who send out the same message from multiple fake accounts, linking to crap is one thing. Scheduling same Tweets (maybe 3) over the course of 7 days is a whole different ballgame. Twitter is thinking very Micro here, you have to think Macro with a service like Twitter. Not every single follower of an account sees the Tweet at the exact same time. Not everyone has their Twitter account "open" all day long. This is further complicated by the limiting of RT's that show up in our streams. As a example, I login to my Twitter account at 8:00 a.m. check back a few pages of Tweets. Log off. I log back in at 10:00, am I not going to be shown RT's from people I am following at 10:00 because that same content was posted at 9:00 a.m. when I wasnt on Twitter? Twitter needs to take a moment and think about these 2 processes. And how ultimately they will decrease the traffic to sites like Techcrunch and Mashable. Both have a RT button, and in all instances hitting the RT button will more than likely get you removed from Twitter.

Uhhh, isn't that one of the reasons we got on Twitter? To post and repost to a larger community. I don't need a Twitter account to have a conversation. I have real people for that. I have Twitter to get my message out, numerous time.

Why do I have the feeling this is going to back fire and make users very unhappy?

What's their definition of a recurring tweet? Is it an exact duplicate (letter for letter), or an identical URL but different wording? Very few viewers read every tweet and rarely go back in time once it's beyond a page of tweets to view past ones so it's more likely that your one tweet is never seen. It's also a standard strategy to tweet multiple variations of the same topic to hit different time zones especially for promoting activity at an event. I don't see this eliminating the kind of tweets I find very annoying.

Ebay made a similar mistake under CEO John Donaho:
"Kill off the Flea Market Sellers, and cater to Big Companies". It did not work.

Donaho failed to recognize that those Mom and Pop Sellers were also the Buyers. Ebay's profits have suffered accordingly, as the "Small Sellers and Buyers" have left Ebay in droves.

Twitter is making the same blunder, and Yahoo sees an opportunity.

Yahoo has opened its Twitter Clone, "Meme", to anyone that wants to join. They have opened their API to developers.

Yahoo Meme allows up to 2000 Characters (vs. Twitter's 140), plus Music, plus Video, plus Photos, none of which Twitter offers.

Also, there is no limit to the number of Followers. Given the number of Servers that Yahoo owns, it is unlikely they will reach Capacity (which has brought Twitter to its knees, and forced them to cap new accounts at 2000 Follows).

Right now Meme has few participants. It has a lot of "noise" coming from photographers who post large pics. But time will tell.

*** You may want to "claim your name" on Meme while you can. ***

Thanks for the great post Neicole!

How does all this effect Retweets? Are they not duplicate tweets? I must say this is all as clear as mud right now and I don't really understand the Twitters true definition of a recurring tweet... :(

I semi-agree with this, but how will Twitter regulate it? Do they count it as spam if you post the same link more than once within a specific time frame? Its beneficial for me to push tweets out at various times of the day depending on where my audience is geographically. If you have thousands of followers, do you expect to push out ONE tweet at noon EST and expect your followers to catch it? Hardly.

I thought that tweeters could block those we do not want to read... surely this can be modified to allow users to controls multiple repeat tweets.

The only way to solve this problem is to voice our opinions. "Change it back... ALLOW RECURRING TWEETS!"

 ...gunna tweet this until my account gets suspended

Tony