Kafka-esque iTunes Tweetie 1.3 flip flop at the app store leaves some questions…

The byzantine mechanism by which new iPhone apps are approved for listing in the iTunes App store has always been a subject of somewhat derisive musings among Apple’s many fans. Yesterday however, the story reached Kafka-esque proportion when Apple rejected an upgrade to Tweetie, arguably the most popular iPhone Twitter app. The reason given was profanity, which they had noticed in a screen shot that displayed a dynamically generated has tag list. (see image) The truly amusing thing is that Loren Brichter, the developer of the app,  did not provide the offending screen shots to Apple,...