From http://twitter.com/dickc/status/44221580028547072 http://twitter.com/dickc/status/44221580028547072 If an alerting mechanism is in your face all the time,

From http://twitter.com/dickc/status/44221580028547072 http://twitter.com/dickc/status/44221580028547072 If an alerting mechanism is in your face all the time, it's not a good alerting function. Doesn't the iPhone still pop-up a modal dialog that you have to dismiss (and may accidentally interact with) for SMS alerts? (I personally can't believe anyone puts up with that -- you have to jailbreak your phone to get a better interface on that?) People stopped complaining about that a while ago, they'll stop complaining about this functionality of the twitter app soon enough. Although, I like the suggestion in the OP to "[give] users a way to pay for the app to make it go away." That's a valid solution, and acknowledges that what shows up in the #dickbar is income related.