Brightkite suggests Twitter instead of 404 Aug20 '08
I thought this was a nice usability feature of Brightkite:
This happened when I followed a link from someone pointing to a Brightkite user, but turns out that user doesn't exist on Brightkite.
With the abundance of social networks, it's easy to confuse users from one with another. Rather than plopping out a confusing 404 page, sites should take this next step which possibly saves the user time and misdirection.
Nothing wrong with helping the user out.
Categories: Brightkite 
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