MG had noted that, after a week, Twitter seemed to realize that it was a problem that the replies still weren’t working, and was pointing people to Summize for a workaround. I said “I hate having to rely on the web version of Twitter, first of all, then having the reply tab bork, and THEN having to go to summize, and hit reply there and pray that twitter works. It’s why I only check Twitter once or twice a day now.
richard - Jun 0, 2008
Yep, all those I’ve conversed with are safe.
Did I make the cut?
As a frequent user of twitter following over 1000 people it’s impossile for me to keep up with everything that’s going on. That’s especially true now that I’m going out more often, working and summer is here. As a result of these factors I removed anyone that doesn’t @ me very often, doesn’t remind me of a conversation or doesn’t post much. As a result the signal to noise ratio has gone down and twitter should be more manageable.
Corvida - May 2, 2008
I can definitely sympathize. Even though I’m in the US, the city that I stay in is pretty non-technological, let alone social. Getting people to use social networks is a tough thing. Even though they have their benefits, it’s not for everyone and everyone isn’t particularly fascinated with the web in the same way that we are unfortunately.
As a student it was not unusual for me to spend no more than six hours a day at home. The rest of the time I was out socialising, whether helping post grads with their work or with those from my studies. As a result of this I started to pay attention to many of the social networks. It had shifted from Facebook where all my real life friends could be found to more abstract social networks such as twitter, jaiku and others.
Farouq Taj - May 6, 2008
Boycott Twitter comment {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:“http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/cLSxVM5Nco_th1.jpg”}“title”:{“value”:“Boycott Twitter comment “}“videoUri”:{“value”:“http://www.seesmic.com/video/j4tlLCBLTT"}}}
That’s why I use jaiku {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:“http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/YRwLb6LXiV_th1.jpg”}“title”:{“value”:“That’s why I use jaiku “}“videoUri”:{“value”:“http://www.seesmic.com/video/rUIBfi5lPG"}}}
I’m not the only person that’s annoyed with the vast amount of downtime suffered by twitter and there is a call for an international boycott of twitter on may 21st. During that day we’ll be using other more reliable services to show that twitter is nothing without the community that makes it what it is. Twitter has been having some serious issues over the last few weeks. It seems that the service is down almost as much as it’s active.
For any of those that have never used Jaiku before here is a typical conversation from the users. They’re all interested in mobile phones and what they can do. It’s a nice change from twitter’s web 2.0 and social media slant.
Of course I’m the most active twitter user in Geneva, as if that was going to be a surprise to anyone. Before that I was London’s most active twitter user with over 5000 posts in a month back in December.
Once more twitter has shown it’s value. An earthquake occured earlier this morning and people started to twitter about it within half an hour. people like Robert Scoble started linking to the story. It took at least an hour for most of the major networks to start speaking about this news. There’s a lag of course, as journalists have to do some research, get some reports and distribute them. I did a search on the twitter search engine flaptor and here is a little taste of the content of those tweets.