richard - Aug 5, 2008
Of course you had to know about the @ feature. It took some time for me to understand it though. As to the influx of people it simply meant that I moved from the public timeline to the private one, where you see those you follow rather than the hundreds of thousands of other users. I like that there are so many people and that’s the reason I haven’t moved to another service.
Over a year ago I started using twitter and it had great promise. The public timeline was so slow that I would refresh it and there would be no new comment for minutes at a time. The service would auto refresh from the website and the community was small. The @ feature didn’t exist and no one I knew was using it. Over a period of weeks and months more and more people started to use it and following was all web based without any api.
If everything goes according to plan tweetsms will be the first to offer the world the opportunity to receive sms from twitter to their phones. They released the prices today and by Friday we should be able to use the service once the bugs are worked out. Looking forward to that moment
Twitter are stopping all SMS for many territories due to cost. They don’t need to send sms. If they had an s60 application similar to that by Jaiku they would incur no extra costs. We would simply take advantage of our dataplans to download the messages at any time that the application is running. Worldwide we are going to find that there are a lot of dissapointed users. At the same time the centralised conversation that twitter managed to encourage will spread across a number of platforms.
orchideane - Aug 6, 2008
back as soon as possible ^^)
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Orchideane - Jul 4, 2008
I love the failwhale..but it’s true..this days she’s literately squatting the timeline :(
Twitter is a shambolic mess, reminiscient of a 2008 version of how hotmail was back in 1998 when I stopped using it. How many of you remember hotmail pre microsoft. I do. It worked fine. Then it became popular and it become really slow. That’s when I spread to have ten to twenty e-mail accounts to see which would be better. yahoo mail and the account that came with the domain won until gmail came along.
Danacea - Jul 6, 2008
Congrats to your 30,000 - and wondering if that makes you the single most prolific Twitterer..? Coooooould be..!
Today I got to 30,000 tweets, a very nice number. There was a time when I seesmiced 5700 times in one month. Recently it’s been about 700 for last month.