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By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:31:23 +0000

Daniel Brusilovsky 30th May, 2008 at 6:50 pm

This is ridiculous! Twitter needs to get their act together… and FAST!

Yeah! Those guys working their buts off to provide a FREE service to ungrateful twits like you ought to either shape up or ship out!

By: Walter Higgins

Walter Higgins — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:31:41 +0000

This is what twitter actually said…

The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when “popular” users – that is, users with large numbers of followers and people they’re following – perform a number of actions in rapid succession.

This is basically a statement of fact. It has no emotional resonance. The word ‘Blame’ is not mentioned. The first step to solving a problem is identifying the cause and that is all the guys at twitter doing. As a software developer and tester I don’t infer any attribution of ‘blame’ in that statement – it seems to be a cool-headed statement of facts, the first step to fixing the problem. ‘Blame’ is an emotionally charged word. Scoble knows this. All your techmeme-loving tech bloggers know this. This is just the blogosphere throwing it’s usual twice-a-week hissy fit.

By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:57:49 +0000

Twitterfone is awesome… I love it

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:33:35 +0000

Twitter would be great if only people wouldn’t keep trying to *use* it, that’s the problem.

By: Sabrina Dent

Sabrina Dent — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:03:49 +0000

Twitter seems to be *slightly* better since it came back from that little hiatus there earlier this week. At least it doesn’t automatically fall over the minute the west coast wakes up to greet the world.

I honestly don’t see Twitter getting lapped since a change of platform means either loosing your followers or somehow enticing all of them to migrate with you. And followers have, for better or worse, become the in-game currency of Twitter.

By: Walter Higgins

Walter Higgins — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:57:36 +0000

just to clarify: The ‘basket-case webapp’ referred to above, is ‘Twitter’. It’s just not a reliable platform – but you know this better than anyone.

By: Walter Higgins

Walter Higgins — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:55:28 +0000

Twitterfone is a great product but don’t put all your eggs in one basket-case webapp. How hard would it be to add other microblogging platforms as a front-end to what you’ve already done for twitter? You know – just in case twitter is lapped by another solution.

By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:50:47 +0000

This is ridiculous! Twitter needs to get their act together… and FAST!