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My first reaction is to honor that sentiment and delete the feed/room. Thoughts? - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed no longer makes a distinction between rooms and users in the URL. It's feature of the new beta. This is true of all rooms, not just this one. - Ken Sheppardson

There are really two issues: (1) it's inadvertent user name squatting. Merlin can't create create his own account now, and (2) one could say the feed is contrary to the sentiment quoted above. I think I'll remove the Twitter feed from the room. I don't know if can be deleted entirely. - Ken Sheppardson

You could just ask him; he might be OK with it, seeing as how the Twitter feed is already publicly readable & you can use it in an RSS reader. As a guess, he might be OK with it after reading his thoughts on disabling embedding videos on Youtube so this might be analogous (but I'm not sure!) - Tyler Ham

i figured something like this might prove a problem, that's why i imported his tweets via an imaginary friend... plus that way only i can see them... though i did create a room for shaq http://beta.friendfeed.com/shaqstw... (and didn't use his twitter name as the room name) bullet dodged... phew - Chris Heath

Anybody know the significance of his id? I've tried to figure it out, but have been unable. - Joey Gibson

Joey: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Ken Sheppardson

you can change the names in the URL now on groups you make. - Ronald S

It's a very good question, Ken. Two things: 1) If there were no ambiguity between ff streams derived from importing one's own services VS from a group import, would there be any ethical difference? 2) An emerging quandary is: reasonably sized excerpts of a quoted blog post can be longer than an _entire_ microblog post. By the same percentage which is acceptable for the average blog-length post, a tweet excerpt would be what, one or two words. - Micah