Ah, okay, no need to say sorry! Either way, I think the backlash was like that because it's just the bandwagon effect. Once some [popular] person says A, then everyone else says A... Once he says B, they all change their opinion to.

Half the crap people went on about were entirely false. I still think your idea had a lot of potential, albeit, missing some key ingredients, but hey! :P

Hopefully that won't scare you from producing more Twitter applications.