The micro blogging sensation, Twitter has finally decided to forfeit its newly introduced feature, ‘Suggested Users’ amid great amount of controversy as to the process through which Twitter decides which users go on list. Twitter has announced that, it will be exploring other alternatives to provide new users with suggestions, that would allow them to follow their choice of celebrities, organizations etc.

According to Biz Stone (co-founder, Twitter),

“That list will be going away. In its stead will be something that is more programmatically chosen, something that actually delivers more relevant suggestions. Ninety-seven percent of our efforts are basically on delivering user value. Everyone is still experimenting. It’s still young, it’s still early. Anything goes right now as we figure out what works and what doesn’t work.”

The Twitter list is known to have around 500 users as the preferred users, slated to be suggested to the new users who join Twitter. However, the list came into a lot of controversy, especially after California accused Twitter’s list favoring the Democrats over the Republicans.

However, Twitter had rejected those claims and has stated that, the list decided unanimously by the employees of the company and the Mr. Stone and the users on the list are selected on the merit of information that they can provide to theory followers. Though the removal of the list has been confirmed, yet there has been no specific time frame given by Twitter, as to when the list would be shut down.

Via Associated Press.