True, isn't there a difference between the tweets shown by, say, http://cursebird.com (which are clearly tweets), and repackaging a tweet as a different form of content.
If they maintained the integrity of the tweets -- complete with the links present in them, that's something else.
Sure. But whatever Mahalo's done, they haven't made it seem like they wrote the questions themselves. The visual design attributes the questions to the 'fluther' Twitter account (and link to the exact origin Tweet).
Are you angry they're making questions by your users seem like they were written by Fluther itself? That seems a legitimate concern, but your own Twitter stream similarly blurs question authorship.
Are you angry that they synthesized a 'fluther' account on Mahalo and thus made it look a little like you're endorsing Mahalo with your participation? That's what I would be most angry about, if my question-tweets were showing up, under my unique username, at a site I'd never opted into. But one remedy for that concern might then be to remove attribution -- making the questions from 'an unnamed Twitter user'.
The point isn't that Fluther's TOS are being violated... it's merely that stripping out the attribution link makes it look like the question was asked by another user on another site.
Great feedback. You can view a list of all the questions you've answers under accounts activity you're following. We'll look into simplifying that navigation.
Tell a friend has been a great boon to our traffic -- especially because we present an interstitial after your third visit. It's significantly boosted our new user registration.
We basically have a funny upsell for tell a friend on the site when you log in after a few days. It's similar to mozilla's "spread firefox" message on the moz FF homepage.
If they maintained the integrity of the tweets -- complete with the links present in them, that's something else.