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If you're talking about the tweets in Japanese (I'm not sure if those are the ones that were deleted), I think people were just getting confused over which album she was talking about. The company can't really make her do anything- plus, the English tweets are still up, so I would assume that it was more a matter of clarification than anything else. She says she's going to talk about "Utada the Best" in greater detail (I'm hoping for a nice, in depth blog about it), so that will give her the time to clear up any confusion there may be in regards to where she's coming from.

Personally, I'm with Utada. I think it's fantastic that she could be cashing in on this along with the record company, and she's still honest enough to tell her fans that there's no reason to buy it. Points for integrity! This entire English "Best Of" concept is such a facade, it's shameful. Given its timing, it was probably put together at the very last minute as a way to ride the cash cow trickling down from the SCV2 release...a much more intelligent tact would be to approach E3/Utada about possibly getting the ITF tour footage out there, but then Utada's English-language career has always been marred by, shall we say, questionable (or outright incompetent?) promotional backing. Why should that change now? Only this time there's been a miscalculation, because they have clearly chosen not to approach the artist in question, who also happened to be their only real promotional vessel (as if anyone bought Utada's release for the company), and that's about to come right back around.

All around, cheers for Utada for not sitting back and watching her fans get gypped! :]