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Take that! Raleigh, NC Metro Area named the Smartest City in the Country -> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009... via @HuffingtonPost
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The “WiFi At Conferences” Problem - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items...
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xirrus.com in our portfolio thinks they have this nailed....
- Tim Connors
rww: Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World http://bit.ly/2VPyAe - http://twitter.com/rww...
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Look out! Google Wave has turbulence and may explode! (No fail whale, but potential explosions)
volkan.vardareli, vijay, Tanath and 42 other people liked this
I see Penny likes this. It was from a wave with Thomas.
- Louis Gray
How is she keeping up?
- Thomas Power
I actually just started to have fun with it
- Orli Yakuel
Do waves explode?
- Luke, Reach Students
This is the best warning message ever
- Michael McGimpsey
"Wanna"? What is the world coming to. You'd think a company as big as Google could employ people who know how to write.
- Gilbert Harding
Gilbert, I'm sure the Googlers in Oz know how to write proper. I reckon they're just trying to get down with their target audience - i.e. the kool kidz! (Seriously though, do error messages really need to be formal? I like the more relaxed approach...)
- Tony Ruscoe
Thanks for sharing with those of us who waited before jumping in.
- Brenda Young
I wonder how long it will take before people can "like" a wave... If they added it to GReader, it seems like only a matter of time...
- Nathan Chase
best title of a thread at problogger.com - 'write drunk; edit sober' (hemingway quote)
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Just don't Twitter drunk; regret sober
- Brenda Young
At Your Service: Twitter Data and Sentiment Analysis - http://www.briansolis.com/2009...
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It's like 2007 all over again... The Google Wave story, and that from @scobleizer are the first links on Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/
Nicholas James, Daniel Rowley, Brenda Young and 7 other people liked this
Awesome. Louisgray.com slashdotted. Nice.
- Mark Krynsky
That's another goal I have yet to achieve - congrats!
- Jesse Stay
nice
- WorldofHiglet
It's so amazing it made me blog! About technology! Well, not really, but sort of....:D
- WorldofHiglet
Slashdot Developers | Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy - http://developers.slashdot.org/story...
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Slashdotted and Scobleized. :)
- Louis Gray
You know you're a geek when you say things like, "I bought some tomatoes and Mozilla for sandwiches" without missing a beat.
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Are people also Geek-ish if they understand why that was funny? ;D
- Brenda Young
... Oh, she was talking to her young daughter who was holding an iPhone. She further said "only five more minutes on the iPhone."
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Ah, yes, something only a parent would say. Thought it was your mother, initially.
- Kathy Ishizuka
yep, my just turned 2yo has her own page on my iphone actually- and her mom's. she can play matching games, listen to music, or draw as much as she wants but she can only watch a few songs on youtube a day.
- metalerik
Converse Thriller Customs by SBTG - http://www.kicksonfire.com/2009...
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These are insane! Wish I lived in Singapore so I could get them
- Corvida
from Bookmarklet
How To Make a Unique Website For Your Twitter Updates - http://tutorialblog.org/how-to-...
Laurentiu, James Williams, S K Jain and 4 other people liked this
RT @khartline Since Gmail is down, give us thumbs up! #SXSW Rocking Events IRL http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas... @chrisheuer @blogworld @theman @brett
Daniel J. Pritchett and Brenda Young liked this
You thought you could spam the trending topics and get away with it, but Pedantic Man is here to shine the bright light of justice upon you! Shame on you, SXSW panels!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Are you nuts or just a troll?
- Chris Heuer
from email
It was mostly a joke, but gmail was trending at the time and this has nothing to do with it. It's not like you're selling viagra.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
sorry - my interface to friendfeed for this was email, so was a little odd to receive someone accusing me of spamming trending topics - on a strictly text basis, might look bad in the future if I didnt respond thanks for clarifying and very glad you are not a troll, but instead, a live humorous being :)
- Chris Heuer
from email
Who needs GMail to work if you can send your contacts in FriendFeed messages and share files as attachments?
Ozgur Uckan, Jose Maria Pelaez, marsupilamima and 76 other people liked this
I was just on the phone with one diehard GMail user, and we decided this was the best work-around.
- Louis Gray
DM + Attachment. Done.
- Louis Gray
+1
- Sofia @ SoMaFusion
Gmail isn't daed at all :) it is the first time, not like the praised twitter that crash every month.
- abdellah
Yeah, no need to get in touch with the outer world I guess…
- alieb
The outer world should be here. :)
- Louis Gray
@Louis, what are you doing to find your task list? Found a way to access that yet?
- Victoria Plautia
I will admit that I instantly jumped over to friendfeed once gmail went down.
- Phil Thornton
I dislike using FB :)
- abdellah
Victoria, I don't keep my task list in GMail.
- Louis Gray
If Gmail is down for you, try adding the Gmail gadget for iGoogle. You should be able to access your email: http://bit.ly/xkghJ
- Adam Helweh
I can still send and receive mail via Thunderbird.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Victoria do you have your task list online? I envy you I am a pen and paper gal (I know I know I live in the stone age)
- Sofia @ SoMaFusion
I get gmail notification through GTalk but can't open the email.
- Santhana Krishnasamy
Thanks for the reminder. Just made my day!
- Peter van Teeseling
So its just the web interface thats down?
- Bryan Lee
Yea but I want to check on my latest mail at least before starting to use workarounds!
- Manuel Mas
I do use the GMail task list exclusively, Sofia. I don't do paper very well, so an online list has saved me several times. Louis - what are you using if you don't use G Tasks?
- Victoria Plautia
Ya I couldn't get gmail to work through igoogle but gtalk seems to work.
- Bryan Lee
Hmmm G Tasks suck I think.
- Manuel Mas
I've got Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar installed in Thunderbird, I hardly use the web interface.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Manuel, it's easy for me, since it's right in my inbox... I don't really need anything too powerful for what I need to keep track of. Definitely parts of it do suck, tho :-). It's not very maniputable.
- Victoria Plautia
Yea it needs more options such as time setting for tasks.
- Manuel Mas
Agreed. I also switched to Friendfeed when Gmail went down. For tasks, I prefer RTM (also accessible through Gmail [when it's up] as a custom gadget).
- Rebeca
I want send my friend a movie, of course FF does not allow such kind attachment.
- topo
you can also get your tasks in Google Calendar... just click the "Tasks" link on the left
- Trevor
uhm, me! I need it. My entire work life is stored in our corporate gmail. but, i did take the opportunity to redesign something that's been bugging me. :)
- Jenna Bilotta
Jenna, shouldn't y'all be using something like Wave to give you a bit more collaboration power?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
old habits are hard to break.
- Jenna Bilotta
but how do I respond to them in Gmail?
- Jesse Stay
Whoooo bring on the Wave!
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Not everyone has FriendFeed? And like Gmails grouping and power search. Well, I like FriendFeeds transparency. Oh gosh, I'm just glad they aren't mutually exclusive. To me they serve a different purpose.
- James Kuypers
Does anyone use a web based e-mail? I access my gmail on my desktop in Windows Live Mail, it comes to me, I don't go 'up there' to fetch it....
- Sandra Large
Why would anyone tie themselves to just one email client or to a single service provider?
- Bernie Goldbach
They like living dangerously?
- Mark Essel
Yahooligans?
- (Garin Kilpatrick)
Yahoo! News was sure, um dismissive, of G's problems yesterday. Ha! Who ya callin a hooligan?
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
Fingers crossed for winning the #sliderocket contest! Would be a good look for my upcoming presentation at IgniteATL http://info.sliderocket.com/ultimat...
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Gmail’s Back Up! (But What Happened?) - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Mine never went down...
- Rachel R.
How did you occupy your time during the GMAIL outage of 9/01/09? - http://www.mahalo.com/answers... #techcrunch50
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The Best And Worst Cities To Look For A Job - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Pete Delucchi, sean808080, Brian and 12 other people liked this
"The unemployment rate in the U.S. was still 9.4 percent in July, but some cities are better than others to look for a job. Of the top 50 metro areas, Washington, D.C., is the easiest for unemployed workers to find a job, while Detroit is the hardest, according to a new Job Market Competition index put together by job search engine Indeed. The index ranks cities based on how many unemployed people there are compared to job listings."
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
I thought Austin was in slightly better shape than that. Also, I wonder if those D.C. numbers reflect D.C. residents only, or D.C. AREA folks who are unemployed. Thinking maybe there's something up with that...
- Call me Bronco
To be fair, it does say "metropolitan area" in the fine print. I'm just wary of statistics until I drill down to the raw data and check out who conducted the research, etc., etc.
- Call me Bronco
I can feel why DC is on the top, but what could be the reason for Jacksonville?
- Mahmood Padura
Not many tech or manufacturing jobs in Jacksonville, mostly service sector jobs, which probably have not been hit as hard.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jacksonville is a deep water Atlantic port that can still expand and a growing force for logistics & distribution for imports/exports. It doesn't have the delays/congestion found in Miami, for example. Jax produces building materials for the US and abroad. It's the third largest military town in the country and the city has substantial medical facilities & med research. Combine those assets with a ridiculously low cost of living, temperate weather and zero income tax....
- Kevin Donahue
If everyone leaves FriendFeed I will have all of its Google Juice to myself! Check this out: http://www.google.com/search...
Jannifer @wordsforliving, Ahad Bokhari, Kol Tregaskes and 26 other people liked this
I just posted that a few minutes ago and already it is in Google. Wild.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
"Horse Piss Beer on Flickr" an interesting result.
- Dean Clark
Dean: yeah there are some fun results there, huh?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
That's what will suck it everyone moves to facebook as friendfeed's features get integrated, there is pretty much no Google Juice on Facebook. Too many privacy barriers...things might change though.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Dude you are crazy!! Good point though =)
- frank barry
Not leaving until they kick me out.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Like many other people, I think best route is for friendfeed to go Open Source. Then we could keep it going.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
This is fleeting. Google always rushes to over-index the vogue site of the day. they did this at one point with myspace profiles, then youtube comments, etc .. http://bit.ly/DoFQI
- Derek Pangallo
I'm not going anywhere. You'll have to share the google kool aid with me.
- shaun mclane
Shaun: go away! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I've always wanted to rank for "Octomom eats neighbor's dog." - And NO - I'm NOT leaving. Don't make me speak Russian to you. :)
- shaun mclane
That was QUICK! http://www.google.com/search...
- shaun mclane
Shaun: yeah Google is indexing a lot faster. By the way that was funny!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
No way am I leaving all this fun to you Scoble....slide over and give me some room :)
- Ken
OK. Just pass those potatoes and peas. We're not leaving.
- Brenda Young
Um, you got some Google Juice on My Yahoo!
- Mistletoe Glen
Who said anything about leaving? And what the heck is Horse PIss beer? Sounds revolting..
- Sandra Large
Wow @tomazstolfa pointed out that I have been on Twitter 1001 days so far: http://1kdaysontwitter.com/tweetre... Here is hoping I get another 1001!
bear (aka Mike Taylor) and Brenda Young liked this
ha! i'm one day short of 1000 :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
how many days have you been on FF?
- Katy Barrilleaux
The Google Reader to FriendFeed integration is crazy fast. My shares get to FriendFeed before I switch tabs.
Jan Friman, Jenna Bilotta, Brad Fitzpatrick and 35 other people liked this
You are so right. I just shared an item and it arrived in FriendFeed really quickly! Pubsubhubbub?
- Paul Jacobson
Paul, yes: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009...
- Mark Trapp
It is due to PubSubHubbub integration ... ah, Mark, you beat me to the punch!
- Paul Jacobson
I thought that was cool, until FriendFeed started pulling in the shares before I clicked on them. It knew _in advance_ what I would have selected.
- Louis Gray
We have reached the future.
- Evan Travers
Louis, that's because FriendFeed *is* Louis Gray
- Jesse Stay
Do I need to update my Google Reader URL in FriendFeed to activate the new change or does it automatically work for everyone who is already importing them?
- Skyler Call
@Skyler Call: It should automatically work.
- 321
321: Yes, it did. Thank you.
- Skyler Call
i want to do this with a specific folder in my reader. by making the folder public, i'm hoping to automatically push those items as shared to FF when there is something new. do you know if this is possible?
- Jim Halligan @jim
from fftogo
i remember before this it could take 30 min or more for a story to post to FF now its like lightening!
- (jeff)isageek
The question is, how fast do you switch tabs? ;)
- Jemm
Jim, you can have FriendFeed pull in the feed for any tag in google reader.
- Rob Diana
Jemm, honestly it must have been 2 seconds. I clicked my last share (or shift-s actually) and then I clicked the friendfeed tab and it was already there.
- Rob Diana
Wow. I shared your post (and Louis Gray's post) in Google Reader, and they hit FriendFeed nearly instantaneously. Now if only Blogger supported the protocol...
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I tried it just then ... whoa!
- Jay
10 hours later... had to manually refresh my Reader shares :(
- Dominic Jones
Still not working Dominic? I can help debug maybe? If you tell me when you post.
- Brett Slatkin
Brett, I have to commend you and the reader team for their customer service as well. This is one of the few times I have seen googlers openly reacting to issues and not just fixing things.
- Rob Diana
Thanks! =)
- Brett Slatkin
Twitter is down. Oh, what will the SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts do?
Asha Tampa, Bruce Lerner, Laurentiu and 221 other people liked this
Come to FF!
- Simon Wicks
Give Friendfeed a shot?
- Rubin Sfadj
Hang out on FF
- Roberto Bonini
Hopefully they don't come to FriendFeed :)
- Robert J Taylor
they will spam friendfeed instead?
- Denis
They are so freeeking out.
- SolidSmack
I couldn't tweet about it, so I told my wife instead.
- Patrick Lightbody
I tried retweeting that. *sigh*
- Andy McIlwain
Big ups to the FriendFeed massive!
- Josette Torres
Call them to join friendfeed, and make
- Madhav Tripathi
Hopefully FF won't get killed by the Tweeters flocking over here.
- phil baumann
ok.. here ya go..twitter being down has forced me here. Haven;t tried FF yet so...
- cheapsuits
just like ya possibly twiddle their thumbs...
- Baba
I suspect the bots will rejoice....
- walidmREALTOR
Let's see where these so-called "social media experts" go to fill the void of Twitter.
- Christian
I can't open twitzap.com
- ybs
Can FF servers manage such a massive movement?
- Samuel Goëta
since bots supply at least 25% of Twitter traffic, should we feel the worst for them right now?
- Kevin Norman
write a post about twitter being down as a threat to humanity, may be?:)
- Nikos Anagnostou
Twitter down... can't post on Facebook,,. so it's FriendFeed!
- carrotmadman6
So your're not responsible for that ? Strange... :-)
- Enikao
lay on the floor and spin in circles
- SolidSmack
Maybe the SocMedExperts will go back to Plurk since Scoble likes Friendfeed. :)
- Jay Gilmore
thank God, now we can get back to work
- E.P. Scott
if they are the experts they claim to be then they should be here!
- Mark V. Fusco
Facebook seems frakked too.
- Gregg Le Blanc
I get tweet trough tweetdeck...
- Giorgio
I need serious help with FF. For an idiot like me this isn't so intuitive really. Help section is nice but I need someone to hold my hand ..bleeech. Don't get me wrong I am sorry I was reluctant to try FF before
- cheapsuits
I blame Scoble. It's always his fault :-)
- Keith Barrett
but how am I going to tell the world I need a cup of tea???? nooooooo
- Rachel Clarke
Giorgio - I'm seeing some activity through the Twitter API, too (that's what TweetDeck uses, I believe); not a lot, but some
- Robert J Taylor
I thought it was just my connection. ;-) I'm also having problems with Facebook today.
- Timothy Federwitz
yeah, it seems the web interface is down but the api is working..
- Giorgio
I think the social media experts are going to spend the next hour talking about Twitter being down
- Keith Barrett
Maybe read a book for a change?
- Yiorgos Adamopoulos
Scoble's followers where the glue keeping Twitter together! now that he's 'pulled the pin' and released them all, Twitter has fallen down and can't get up.
- MikeAmundsen
Seems to me like some sort of an (DDoS) attack on Twitter and Facebook.
- Jari Hakkarainen
I'm so lost this morning without my cup-o-Twitter
- frank barry
You broke it Bob! All this follow/unfollow madness.
- ZuDfunck
They'll comment on it, much like I just did.
- Marlin Forbes
Man imagine if this had happened on #followfriday...
- Rob Paller
Yiorgas: read a book for a change? I do that anyway, but only about 10/month. need more twitter time to balance it out
- Rachel Clarke
Facebook is copying twitter too closely...even to going down at the same time
- Robert Littlejohn
Does Twitter have what it takes to be a big player? We've been working with their API on a project and every time there is something out of whack. Anyone else have the same issues?
- Chris Nadeau
twitter is really down, I think twitter itself should have a site that tweets when it's down :)
- Ata İsmet Özçelik
They will use FF to inform their friend that twitter is down
- Didier Girard
They'll use Identi.ca ;)
- Nicholas James
No actually the blog: http://status.twitter.com/ ("We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.")
- Patrick Mackaaij
Show up here I'm thinking. :-)
- Dion Hinchcliffe
Huge exodus to FF!
- akihito
We will start feeding friends and keeping up our identi.ca 's
- JuneM
They're probably crying so loud right now that they can't do a thing ;-)
- Caio Cesar
What's been the longest twitter outage on record thus far?
- Dusty Edenfield
hmm at least they found a solution with a blog :)
- Ata İsmet Özçelik
I don't understand why you maintain an account when you have such contempt for Twitter & those who use it.
- Liz
they will cry in their soup
- Bobby Griffith
holiday
- Ronald
it's back up. made ya look
- Kevin Norman
Strangely, search.twitter.com is up.
- Marlin Forbes
Tokyo: I already have a private group setup. Sort of like a bomb shelter in case the rats take over.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
i noticed that twitter is down... anyone know how facebook is ssOOO slow 2...????
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Just noticed it...
- k00pa
do not waste time and do their job :D
- Roldano
twitter outage and news of the PubSubHubbub feature in Google Reader (http://is.gd/24YvH) make FF look pretty good right now.
- Dusty Edenfield
facebook too! i guess i'm going to have to do something like "get a life" which is abhorrent to me... ^_^
- Kayce Maisel
friendfeed is having some issues but for the most part is still up and going :)
- (jeff)isageek
find another medium such as friendfeed ;).
- rick
Roger, Mr. Scoble!
- akihito
@Sebastian they connected somehow... ahhh scary :)
- Dani Martínez
good. so not the only one with issues with FB.. wel atleast is FF is going strong..
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
what we all are going to do??? =) but if seriously i remember this video on youtube - trouble with twitter: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- obolonskyi
They will all sit in their chair and stare at their monitor!
- Gabe Diaz
@Dani, who knows... the might merge or something... explain the strange twitter is pulling fb down 2..
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Did Scoble bring Twitter and FB down as he unfollowed everyone ? winks -)
- Del_
This is still up... even this FF tweet. http://search.twitter.com/search...
- Johann Chiang
In the event that twitter goes down I tend to frequent FF more.
- © b e e n s w a n k
This is very interesting that it is impacting more than one social network ... can't even speculate what the cause is yet. Not getting much work done today I'm afraid, going to be following these conversations..
- Joe Magennis
I haven't been on twitter for days. I guess I picked the wrong morning to jump back in.
- Jeff Stannard
Robert: The most important question>> How many new sign-ups for FF today?
- K.N. Ajit Narayan
...and who wins? FF great :)
- Dani Martínez
Was just able to post to Facebook but took several tries. Wow. FF FTW!
- Tom Guarriello
so!!
- abdellah
The smart ones will go to FriendFeed ;)
- Helene
The spammers should go to MySpace...
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
Tweeple will come to FriendFeed!
- LauraLee Dooley
That's why I joined FF a while back. Then I found all the useful features- and the bonus is having Scoble here to show the way.
- Brenda Young
No, the smart ones are ALREADY on FriendFeed :)
- Susan Beebe
and?
- abdellah
@obolonskyi nice. vid.. ROFL... never seen it before...
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
GUILTY ! I have had a FF account for awhile just never used it--
- cheapsuits
What the celebrities like you do. Talk about it on Twitter.
- Tad Chef
This actually made me laugh out loud, because I was thinking the same thing!
- Dan
This kind of reminds me of a line from Office Space: "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
- Jari Hakkarainen
haha lets get FF down also :D
- Salim Sarımurat
Could this mean that CNBC was right??? Nooooooooooo!
- Travis Koger
I was planning to unfollow a bunch of followers due to Twitter's follow limit rule kicking in at the ~#2000 user level. I have to wait with that then... ;)
- Martin Lindeskog
FF FTW
- Eran Even-Kesef
Is the Twitter bubble bursting?
- Travis Tasset
Let's see how well Friendfeed handles this Twitter outage :)
- Rene Silva
Re previous comment of mine, 'Nooooooo!' was for CNBC being right, not that twitter is dead. ;)
- Travis Koger
life goes on
- Eran Even-Kesef
Hey don't tell anyone about this FF thing, its our little secret
- Jeff Wiant
Twitter better be back up by the time Rick Sanchez is on CNN this afternoon or he won't know what to talk about ;)
- cjcubs
telnet 80 twitter.com ?
- Gordon Joly
@gordon wont work
- k00pa
FF was down for me for about 10 min just now.
- Dusty Edenfield
Blogger's having some trouble as well
- Crispin Heath
No address associated with nodename (twitter.com)
- Gordon Joly
If friend feed ever gets as popular as twitter were will everyone go to to avoid the popular crowd?
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Panic?
- Dean Clark
@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack?
- Michael Fierro
Panic? Aren't we all used to this already? :)
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
if this is the North Koreans with a coordinated attack I WILL laugh
- cheapsuits
@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack?
- Michael Fierro
Robert, please follow back 106,000 and everything will be ok))) joke =)
- obolonskyi
I can not play 140mafia!!! This sucks sooooo bad :(
- Sam Beckett
Twitter outage is causing issues with both facebook and friendfeed. I guess we know where everyone is going instead of twitter.
- April Russo (app103)
facebook? no way :)
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Twitter being down is a a relief to me this morning! Now I can stay OFF it rather than fitting it into every 30 second change of task! n
- Arleen Anderson
at this rate they will have to start sending out junk mail via the post office again... oh the humanity
- Terry Bruce
Let's all chat on Friendfeed
- johnpiercy
from iPhone
Nothing seems to work, I think it will be the Friend Feed greatest traffic boost ever
- Jacob Kobi Gamliel
guys, is it Ddos attack? or smth like that? as I understand twitter is hosting somewhere and this datacenter is down. am i right?
- obolonskyi
FriendFeed traffic is rocking now...
- Jacob Kobi Gamliel
social media "experts" might need to actually find other work to do.
- Luis Sandoval
thanks God, Youtube is working
- obolonskyi
More info needed. Where is there an alternate feed to real time news?
- SenderOK
seems unlikely I'll do anything productive in the interim
- WarLord
Hopefully they will move to FF :)
- Martynas
it could be ff provocation
- obolonskyi
I feel like we are all stranded on a tropical Island together
- Jeff Wiant
was afraid for a moment that out IT blocked all social networks or something horrible like that. Thank god FF came back up quickly. This might have gotten me to use FF more. I often neglect it.
- Ryan Cummins
Wondered why tweetdeck wasn't loading anything. actually got some programming work done. lol
- Justin Long
friendfeed rules!
- Kevin Dolan
twits will move, but only until twitter is back online, then there will be a mass exodus. Remember during all of the 2007/2008 fail whales users still flocked back to it regardless.
- Travis Koger
Twitter, Facebook, now Posterous... 4chan organize an attack or something?
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
Thank goodness FF is still working. :)
- 3Cinteractive, L.L.C.
from twhirl
Friendfeed + Facebook :)
- Rafa Lacerda
From status.twitter.com: "Site is down 1 hour ago. We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly."
- Martin Lindeskog
Having issues with Facebook as well as Twitter. Can sign into FB but unable to go to anyones profiles- process just hangs
- outofmyarse
chinese attack? :)
- Roldano
Touché Robert, Touché
- Jeff Woelker
from twhirl
"We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly." from Twitter Status
- Kurt Jarchow
North Koreans I tell ya....
- cheapsuits
took inordinate amount of time to get into ff today as well
- A Zmaj
Hmmm DoS attack...someone wanting a ransom from Twitter?
- Mike Gargano
Guess they'll have to either pick up the phone or do some work :)
- Graham Bunting
Can someone with 94k followers really mock the the celebs and experts devoid of Twitter?
- Augie Ray
Hey, no bogus follow messages in my inbox for a while! ;-)
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
This is teaching us something about the framework of the current Internet traffic patterns. We're watching cascade scale problems from one major Internet program going down.
- Melanie Reed
Facebook is giving up the ol', "Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/inline_comments.php': A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet" message now.
- 3Cinteractive, L.L.C.
from twhirl
I think this is bigger than Twitter and FB... I think it's some interweb routes or something. I had a VoIP call going with a party local to me and two across the country and I lost the two across the country, but maintained the local party. And others are commenting on other sites showing signs of outages.
- Timothy Federwitz
from Alert Thingy
Twitter is Down....panic..run.,,SOS!
- Veetrag
Yeah, had all the characteristics of a DDoS attack. What do perpetrators of such attacks get from doing that, I've never understood.
- Jari Hakkarainen
What will they do? Use FriendFeed!
- Chuck Huckaby
It's official. Twitter's problem is a DoS attack per twitter/status.
- Roger Jennings
shhhh they'll come here
- andy brudtkuhl
The real bummer for me is, now I actually have to listen to the radio to get the word of the day!
- Travis Owen
is twitter connected with FB or Friendfeed? I am having page errors with both, Ajax issues with FB intermittently , I am no tech geek so I have no clue whats up and come here to learn
- lisa coultrup
Status Blog says "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack." Mmmm... http://status.twitter.com/post...
- akihito
Friendfeed it is then.
- Aren Grimshaw
Now, It's up!
- Martin Sliacky
Posterous isn't working properly either, at least for me.
- Steven Melfi
http://status.twitter.com/post... We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.
- Zalt Woo
What does DoS mean?
- Kimberle Kelly
denial of service
- Justin Long
I meant what does denial of service mean? (dumb blonde here sorry)
- Kimberle Kelly
If it's true..or is it propaganda?
- Alex Schleber
It's down, again.
- Martin Sliacky
Tracing route to twitter.com [168.143.162.100] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 172.16.1.1 2 25 ms 29 ms 28 ms lo1.br57.fra.de.hansenet.net [213.191.64.45] 3 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms ae1-252.prju01.fra.de.hansenet.net [62.109.64.13 7] 4 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms fra32-hansenet-3.fra.seabone.net [89.221.34.61] 5 120 ms 119 ms 195 ms ash1-new50-racc1.ash.seabone.net [195.22.206.2] 6 125 ms...
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- Zalt Woo
Thank you :o)
- Kimberle Kelly
DoS on large portions of the internet. Is this 4Chan... Chinese... N. Korea... durkadurkastan...
- Ryan Cummins
now having trouble getting to Friendfeed
- Justin Long
look, few days ago Clinton back home with two imprisoned american journalists from North Korea and today Korea is attacking twitter? it is revenge)))
- obolonskyi
maybe Robert's great unFollowing crashed the servers... no loss! Go FF
- Jay Shapiro
from BuddyFeed
some government is DDOS'ing the real-time internet to cover up something :-) http://leeprovoost.posterous.com/the-twi...
- Lee Provoost
hmmm
- abdellah
As I said, I predict a baby-boom in 9 months... wait and see!
- Jordi Soler
SEO Experts can analyze their charts, celebrities and wannabe's can entertain us with video (maybe some cool Twitter Whore like stuff) , and social media experts can quickly become Fail Whale Experts.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
@Lee Provost don't you thing you're going to be a little apocaliptic ? :-)
- Filippo Ronco
Twitter downing has to be a lesson for all of us. if sometimes gmail or even google will be down. what we all are going to do in that situation???
- obolonskyi
@Filippo i've been suprised many times that reality is often more wacked up than the conspiracy theories of geeks :-p
- Lee Provoost
I'm hoping the social media experts go away and do something useful.
- Parvez Halim
@Lee this is true too :-)
- Filippo Ronco
@Jordi LOL, considering that there are a vast amount of single male computer geeks out there in the twitter community, baby boom effect might be negligible :-D
- Lee Provoost
what is bad here? here doesnt exist reply button =(
- obolonskyi
The realtime updates of the comments is great. FF rulez. Would be better though to have the comment link not on top
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
@Lee single male computer geeks - LOL))
- obolonskyi
Go back to MySpace?
- Juliana
Maybe some will switch to FF if twitter is down for a while
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
The twitter bots are rebelling
- Charles
@Flynn, go check out this Greasemonkey script, solves it: http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Alex Schleber
Come here and moan about it!
- Kami Huyse
Read post on 100k unfollow - I love how people are commenting and blaming Twitter being down on that! lol
- Helene
@AlexSchleber: thanks, great :)
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
AAANND.. it's back. At least for a moment I guess..
- Alex Schleber
AAANND it's GONE! ..Again. At least I managed to send out a quick FriendFeed SOS, as in: "Still think you shouldn't have all of your favorite tweeps in a "backup system" on FriendFeed? Join here: www.friendfeed.com/alexschleber "
- Alex Schleber
Either collapse or back to use their phones in voice only mode, do some shopping, get eye to eye contact ... Blame god, and then. Give a serious try on FF ;p
- Marco ILLESCAS
from iPhone
They will still be able to Tweet to themselves - not sure if they will realize it is down until it comes back up.
- Phil Harrison
I hope everyone will be ok...lol
- April Mendez
Hey, can I hang out here on FF while my Twitter is down :)
- Kevin Krewell
Welcome to FF Kevin! You can tweet from here too!
- Arleen Anderson
Thanks Arleen. I hear all the kool kids hang out here now - like Scoble and you!
- Kevin Krewell
I'm glad I joined FF yesterday, great timing!
- CodeSamurai
I also micro-blog or create my own Twitter, but in more than 140 characters.
- polou/indigo_bow
FF and Tumblr are working fine! :-)
- Tim Moore
A good FF day- new familiar faces on this thread.
- E-Advocate Network
What will the blackhat SEO experts, the SM spammers, and the social media experts do during a widespread outage? The answer is obvious: While sitting out the crisis they're fine-tuning their methodology. Seriously, your question offends me. There's a gazillion of SEO experts out there who do not abuse social media.
- Sebastian
Sebastian there can't be a gazillion SEO experts! What's 10,000 keywords times 20?? (and that's being generous!)
- Arleen Anderson
Would a social media expert consider it to be a crisis? If they rely so heavily on just one or two tools that it's enough to throw them into a tizzy, their expert status would seem to me to be ... questionable, at best.
- Gord McLeod
Agreed.
- Greg
Arleen, 10,000 keyword phrases times 20 is a tiny fraction of the search terms that are worth optimizing for. Think of the long tail. Also, consider lots of webmasters and even publishers / site owners / bloggers / Web developers ... SEO experts who are able to optimize their stuff quite successfully but don't sell or publish their expertise. Many of them, and even many SEO consultants, do make sensible use of social media, as plain users.
- Sebastian
Gord, in a social media spammer's book 2 hours of outage, IOW 2 hours w/o sales from sneakily distributed links to questionable sales pitches, can sum up to way more than a good day's beer money. ;) However, "crisis" might be a term too strong for this potential loss.
- Sebastian
+1 Sebastian
- Bill Sodeman
I'm hung up on hop 12!
- bev
I love FF!
- John Giglio
come to Friend Feed? Not
- Rob Cairns
You must be dying of laughter now Robert!
- Arleen Anderson
Arleen: yes, reading this is fun. Sebastien SEO types are so easy to wind up. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Gotta love it... @RobCairns says "come to Friend Feed? Not" and then his page shows ONE POST from Twitter in the past 18 hours! And that one talks about how Twitter seems to be slowing down again! (Sorry Rob, but that's just too good to let pass!)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Robert, admit it, you broke Twitter by massively unfollowing people. The DDoS attack reports have just been a ruse to cover up the fact that you were the backbone of Twitter all this time.
- Louis Trapani
Louis: that is true. I pissed the bots off.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Keep running into the wall a few times then find alternate outlets such as ff, linkedIn, etc...
- Kirsten Mitchell
from iPhone
Looks like the devious plan to move everyone to FF is working well. LOL :)
- Geer
Ha! The whole Facebook Twitter slowdown may have been just people clicking on spam (not a DDoS botnet). How funny! Manual DDoS. See Bill Woodcock's theory at CNet, AP, SF Gate, and The Register http://ff.im/6gLmO
- Mitchell Tsai
There you go again implying the only ones that use twitter is SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts - This is definitely SPIN. Perhaps you should join CNN also LOL
- RetiredTeacherD
Ironic, given your status as a celebrity social media expert who constantly spams about bots... :-P
- David Kettler
Now they'll have time to shower and do their laundry!
- Ron Hagenhoff
To Jump on the Massive Unfollowing Trend Would Be a Mistake - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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"So too do I see it better that 100 spammers fill my feed than I lose access to the innocents who remain. I am not so self-centered as to believe I know the full set of people who I can learn from and derive value. So don't look for me to start shaking my numbers down on any of the networks - even if it is getting more popular. " love this part of the post, however I want just to notice...
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- abdellah
fighting talk - I do believe you just called scoble self-centered. Still I am sure he has been called worse ;)
- Riaz Kanani
it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering
- Barak Hachamov
filter before you fellow
- abdellah
Riaz, Scoble and I get along great. I wouldn't call him self-centered.
- Louis Gray
I shared this in GR as soon as I read it. Congrats on a great post, Louis! All I can say is finally someone has said it. This trend of unfollowing is rather disturbing imho and shows how self-centered some people are, how desperate for attention others are, and how they all are rather clueless at creating valuable networks on these social tools they so much love to love.
- Vlad Bobleanta
true, but people who don't appreciate following others shouldn't do it and shld unfollow..keeps tweeting young and influential. also, the only way to get rid of spam is to unfollow/block each such perp
- Amit 'zyaada' Mittal
Louis: you will come to dislike your choice here. I used to say the same thing, but as you get more and more people who you aren't interested in you'll realize you just aren't getting anything out of the home page on Twitter anymore and, worse, you are getting spammed both on it and via DMs. That might not be a big problem for you with 12,000 friends, but as your numbers move up (and they will) you'll hit the same problems I did.
- Robert Scoble
Why is Louis' followers number growing very very slowly relative to his popularity on the net
- Mark
Robert, I never did get anything out of the homepage of Twitter anyway. :)
- Louis Gray
I think unfollowing makes sense on Twitter. On Friendfeed Lists are your friends.
- Paul Kinlan
Mark, I would say it has to do with not being put on any kind of suggested list. :)
- Louis Gray
I don't find that the Twitter website does a good job of making Twitter usable. The applications are what make it usable for me.
- Michael Owens
Unfollowing kinda makes sense. Have you ever played an RPG the second time through... you know what to do in the beginning, you aren't lost, and you know what your end goal is? Yeah. That's pretty much what we are talking about here.
- Evan Travers
I like that Evan :) RPG
- michelle harris
Yeah, the real thing here is we both are heavy users of FriendFeed. That's why I didn't care that my Twitter feed was getting worse and worse. Over the past year I've done almost all my Twitter reading here on FriendFeed. Now that I've restarted it, though, damn is it 100x more useful! And, yes, there are lots of people who are on Twitter who aren't on FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
I could barely handle following 600 or so people, even with appropriate tweetdeck filters. There were too many people who just weren't adding value. I made a particular point to unfollow anyone who regarded themselves as an "SEO" or "Internet Marketing" expert.. I had made the mistake of following back anyone who followed me and slowly began to realize that they were just playing the numbers game.
- Neeraj Kumar Agrawal
abdellah: I am starting to agree with "filter before you follow", which I also believe is what Robert Scoble is doing now as he starts to follow people. Louis Gray: I don't think it is a movement to unfollow everyone, at least, not for me. I think Scoble had to start from scratch because of the number he had... for me, having a very small number in comparison, I will start unfollowing...
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- Timothy Federwitz
If you've never mass followed, and managed your connections in the way that's right for you, why would you have a reason to mass unfollow to being with. Good points Louis.
- Ken Camp
I've been curious as to the counter argument to this trend. Scoble's reaction albeit extreme is one I can empathize with, but unnecessarily severe. I appreciate the alternate perspective and grounded reasoning to your approach. While I have far fewer followers the numbers have crossed the line of unmanageable with out an automation service. Thanks for the great post and food for thought.
- Jim Goldstein
Scoble has this big 7 point list of criteria for following you on twitter, but on Friendfeed he will follow anyone who asks!
- Mark
Mark: that's because on FriendFeed I can have lists. So I can use a variety of different following strategies here. On twitter I can only follow or not.
- Robert Scoble
I think I am in the middle on this. I am not about to wholesale unfollow everyone, but the noise from news bots etc in my twitter feed is getting insane. I am still nowhere close to "getting" FF so I am still struggling a bit here too.. In fact, I have fallen right back into the trap I was in a few months ago. I think it's time for another social medai diet
- Andy Glover
Robert, you can certainly use tools like tweet deck to create groups, but . . .whatever. To me, it's just not an issue, either way. I like it when folks that I find interesting (and Robert is certainly among them!) follow me back, but it's not essential. I don't need to follow the Roberts of the world on Twitter in order to check in on what they're up to, from time to time. Unless someone has a private feed, it seems to be a non-issue.
- Kathy Fitch
Andy: on FriendFeed whenever things go nutty, just open up a new friend list and move your high quality follows into that. Leave all the other people in the old list, so you can check in once in a while.
- Robert Scoble
I don't see how anyone could follow as many people as Robert w/o losing control. Twitter would become marginalized by sheer un-manageability. Even with groups etc. there's only so much real estate on a monitor. I have groups on FriendFeed as well but honestly I spend most of my time on the home feed.
- Rick Bucich
That said, when I'm launching a new twitter presence (as I just have for an organization), it's *really, really great* when people and organizations with similar interests follow back. If nobody did, that would just be sad. Still, I'm mostly interested in the feed aspect of things, so even then, it's not really crucial to have followers.
- Kathy Fitch
What I don't get, and what has never been explained to me despite asking, is why have low "quality follows" in the first place? I know you follow me, and given that there is seldom interaction its quite apparent I'm not on the high quality follows list. If its not for ego, what's the point? Mass unfollow, filter, etc. that's entirely your decision, but why follow to the point that mass unfollow is necessary?
- jcunwired
I've always had the policy of being quick to follow and even quicker to unfollow. As soon as someone begins to bore or annoy me I just unfollow them. But on the other hand I'm glad to follow people on a whim. You never know.
- Leo Laporte
Rick--so true. In some ways, the conversations that these folks with massive followings are having around the follow/unfollow issue just is utterly irrelevant to those of us with more moderate goals and purposes.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice to see Leo Laporte being more involved on Friendfeed
- Mark
Right Leo - follow to see what's interesting, unfollow when you find out there's no value. The alternative, if I may say so, is misleading and unfair to the end user.
- jcunwired
Value in this instance is pretty subjective, and that's the point, really. What is your subject position? I'm in SMB mode, so what I'm after is quite unlike what a twit guru would be after. For me, the following/follower # some are cutting down to would be massive. If I hit those numbers, then I'd probably want to trim it back down. Robert is still about 500 over anything I'd be interested in.
- Kathy Fitch
One of the first people I looked through was Leo Laporte's following page. He has some great people who he is following.
- Robert Scoble
Take a look at Dave Winer's RSS Cloud technique - a great way to assess a following list in your newsreader before adding. http://www.scripting.com/stories...
- Leo Laporte
Why limit yourself? Someone asks to follow me, I check out their profile and tweets. If the words SEO,check out my webcam, or Arrington are there, I don't follow, If I do follow, I give them a month and then unfollow if any major douchbaggery makes its way to mine eyes.
- Paul Puri
Ah, somewhere there's an SEO person who is offering useful tweets about how beginners can use the basic Google Analytics and Webmaster tools to help them create better, more useful sites for users and potential users. That person could be good for some folks to follow.
- Kathy Fitch
On the "low quality followers/follows" point, I really needed some of those at first to help me get a feel for the ebb and flow. The trajectory of any given twitter user's account, if it's public, probably follows that basic pattern of "whoo hooo, followers!" to "what the heck?" to "now that I get how it works, how would I like it to work for me?" Seems pretty common sense. It's okay that answers to the final question vary. All as it should be.
- Kathy Fitch
I'm just generalizing, of course, but most of the people who try to follow me that have SEO in their bio have 10 tweets and they are link bait.
- Paul Puri
I shared w/ Robert and will share with you, YES I spend too much time trying to block all the FakePornSpamBot accounts. And I miss blocking many. BUT, my HOME Stream is the most amazing view of the world! With a few refreshes I can get the pulse of what's going on! Besides, even if someone is often a voyeur, there are those times they pop up and share the most insightful things! I believe I can learn from everyone! So if you're real and follow me - I'll follow you!
- Arleen Anderson
In parallel to this, I do manage a corporate account for one of the companies I consult for. Every follow and unfollow there is measured. But I learned a long time ago, that at least for me, people just want to be connected, on any network they prefer, so I try not to get in their way.
- Louis Gray
Louis: there's another aspect to this too: every follow you make signals to the world what kind of person you are. Look at my following list. You'll see geeks, VCs, journalists, entrepreneurs. Who isn't there? Not many celebrities. Not many plumbers or quilters, if any at all. That signals to the world the kind of people I want to have in my life and the kinds of information I want to hear. If you are autofollowing that opportunity to signal to the world is totally lost.
- Robert Scoble
You're doing it wrong, Robert. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Chris: always. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Oh, Paul, point well taken, of course. I'm just pointing out that they've no doubt ruined it for a handful of smart and useful SEO folks. Arleen was actually one of the first folks to follow me back, and just watching her from a distance (I guess that makes me a voyeur? <grin>) helped give me a good feel for how someone at her level of #'s worked with the system. Very educational!
- Kathy Fitch
The "signal to the world" bit makes much more sense to me on the corporate accounts I'm working with. For the Catholic parish, for instance, who to follow gets really important. I can't afford to have anything with even a whiff of inappropriateness about it in the stream. That's going to be a very small list!
- Kathy Fitch
I just think the only way you can do this wrong is if you don't continually revise your thinking and your approach. Right on to all of you for exploring this topic.
- Holly Rae
Leo, I can usually tell by the last 4 to 5 tweets whether I should follow back. But, everyone is annoying or boring sometimes (including myself) so I don't unfollow very often unless someone's stream becomes overly promotional or full of gimmicks.
- Rick Bucich
What's the benefit of following thousands of people? if you say its because you have to in order for them to DM you, how can you possibly respond to potentially thousands of DM's consistently? Once, I tried following everyone that followed me and it made my follower count jump quickly, but it made twitter less fun because I had random automated DM's from people I didn't know, and a useless stream of info from people I followed for no reason.
- Dusty Edenfield
Robert/Kathy: I think who I follow making a statement of who I am and what I'm about is less important to me since I am using it for a personal experience and my likes are wide and deep. If I was using my Twitter account as an outward facing presence for my business/organization, then it would matter much more to me... but I'm just having fun with it and like the idea of seeing lots of...
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- Timothy Federwitz
The DM thing. Sigh. Here on FF, it's totally useful. I've never had a single pointless DM. On Twitter, it's a thing to scan very occassionally, and ignore the rest of the time, seems like.
- Kathy Fitch
The thing that is being overlooked is this: The real issue is the auto-follow, NOT the total number of "following". It is what removes the vetting process. Once vetted, I'd say the more the merrier, b/c there is real value in your "with friends/following" stream, precisely b/c it is way different to search/filter it vs. regular Twitter Search. It is a huge omission/mistake that this is...
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- Alex Schleber
Since I mass unfollowed I've had SIGNIFICANTLY better interactions with the people I genuinely want to communicate with. A good % of the social media gurus who just follow in the hopes that you'll follow back unfollowed and it's seriously been like a weight lifted off my shoulders.
- Ryan Stephens
(cont'd) For this reason, I will openly admit to trying to get as many of my Twitter peeps registered into FriendFeed as possible, & I won't even care if they sub to me there or not (not required for conversation on FF anyway). It's to get them into the stream that I can then search over, and further add people into separate Friend Lists from there. Currently I'm at about 1k of 3k...
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- Alex Schleber
Also see "My comment on: 'Why You Should Start Over On Twitter With A BRAND NEW Account - Twitip' Hint: I disagree" http://post.ly/1owO This about sums it up: "..the solution to overwhelm by technology is better technology, not retrenchment..".
- Alex Schleber
Louis, I only read part of your post, but I agree as far as the types of people that are following others. Twitter has become a place more for business than meaningful conversations. Best thing to do is look at who is following you and purging those who just seem to market links to " Ways To Generate Massive Cash " through whatever they might be involved in hawking.
- Lew Newmark
@Lew funny you call this "business". I call it "racket"
- Jorge Escobar
Somewhat parenthetically, like the 19th century theoretical "corporate shield" that was supposed to shield individuals from liability, artificial demarcations between "my personal site" and "my business site" are increasingly obsolete. We are all complex, intertwined, interdependent, human-computer, systemic hybrid participants in an increasingly systematized hybrid world. The old silos...
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- michael silverton
@Louis - I think you are right. Doing something because it's a "trend" is dumb. Can you tell me what the metric is you use to measure when something breaks through to "trend" status? When "unfollow" hits Trending Topics, maybe? I didn't reboot my following list to join a trend. I did it because I really like following the people I follow...and they were getting drowned out by the people...
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- Rex Hammock
I'm going to mass unfollow everyone who ignores me :)
- jcunwired
Lets be honest, this unfollowing thing by "certain" people is nothing but a PR stunt
- Spencer
Spencer--well, of course this thing does have PR implications. After all, the big wigs are all talking about it non-stop, and then those on the next few tiers down from there are talking about the talking. Still, having PR implications and being a stunt aren't exactly the same thing. Many of these big name folks *are* established brands, which isn't something most of us can claim....
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- Kathy Fitch
@Spencer - I know my unfollowing thing was nothing but a PR stunt. As is my commenting here.
- Rex Hammock
agree. More than reasonable post, Luis..
- Marco Castellani
What's wrong with Twitter?
Milton Ramirez, Svartling, sofarsoShawn and 39 other people liked this
Was working earlier this morning. Not now though.
- Hutch Carpenter
What do you mean?
- Thor
a serious lack of intellect coupled with an egregious amount of over pimping yourself
- Braden Douglass
Twittter is down
- Jeremiah Owyang
Scoble unfollowed everyone and broke it.
- Steven Melfi
It's down HARD - API and web site for about an hour
- Jon DiPietro
braden, is that limited to twitter? ;)
- Jeremiah Owyang
when you find out, let me know... :(
- Sydney Owen
It's not working here in MN... must be down; API doesn't work, either so no tweets for us
- Tim Elliott
Lots of folks at Dell are noticing it's down too.
- LionelatDell
site and API is totally down (nit just failwhaling). odd.
- Sam Harrelson
from BuddyFeed
SCOBLE BROKE TEH TWEETEZ
- Jeremiah Owyang
Loaded question, Jer ;)
- Brett Kelly
Not even a fail whale on this end.
- Ed Moltzen
I was using pingdom to track when it was back online.
- Rob Paller
huge Twitter fail right now
- Kevin Norman
It's down? How is that even possible?
- Justin Whitaker
Been down for at least 45mins...
- Penthouse Magazine
Twitter was a figment of our imagination ;)
- Valeria Maltoni
Yeah -- I haven't seen a fail whale in a while. And i just noticed that Penthouse Magazine commented on your post, Jeremiah.
- Daniel B. Honigman
Does Facebook or Friendfeed pick up the real time web slack when Twitter goes down? What is your first instinct on where to turn?
- Joe Magennis
from iPhone
Is this todo with the injunction? Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement - and it doesn’t look good - http://bit.ly/avWLR
- ImJustCreative
from twhirl
"We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly" 5 mins ago on the status blog
- jjprojects
Joe - Interesting how that happens, eh? Let's just move over here full time.
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
facebook is messed up too
- (jeff)isageek
Major Fail Whale - huge
- Drew Lucas
from iPhone
so huge a fail, we're not even getting the whale :) FriendFeed must be rubbing their hands with glee
- Robert McIntosh
I guess that's one way to get me to venture over to FriendFeed.
- Ryan Stephens
Not sure, but i like it.
- Johnny
@Ryan, this is a great time for me to figure out how FF works.
- Sydney Owen
Kind of annoying, but interested to see where everyone will flock to in its absence...
- Christian
So is this a coordinated attack on Twitter and Facebook?
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
Identica picks up a lot of the overflow
- ImJustCreative
@Hutch I can't work, because a lot of my morning is on Twitter. Seriously. I'm just at a standstill, kinda.
- Sydney Owen
LOL, I'm not the only one who is checking out Friendfeed a bit more right now :P
- Selene M. Bowlby
Friendfeed was defeinitely the first place I came, then Facebook, but FB seems to be really lagging
- Crispin Heath
Facebook was giving errors when commenting...
- Gabe Diaz
I guess this is a perfect time for all you "die hard twitter users" to realize why Friendfeed is better! :D
- Johnny
man, I think I have the shakes
- Kevin Norman
Oh, look at all the fresh updates here! (Including mine) Is this the social media equivalent of a booty call?
- Justin Whitaker
and the funniest part is when your first reaction is to tweet and find out what is going on. oops. Nothing on the blog, I checked.
- nan braun
Can't access Twitter in NL either. Over to Friendfeed!
- Samuel Driessen
I'm having login issues with Facebook as well (and so are a number of my friends in different parts of the countries). FriendFeed FTW
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
@Sydney I rather like FriendFeed, there's just more people on Twitter for me, it drives WAY more traffic, and it's RARE good discussions evolve here from anyone other than POWER users.
- Ryan Stephens
love how we all pop over here when twitter is down ;)
- Kate
Ryan: how do you have discussions on twitter? I'll agree that they are rare.
- Johnny
What's up with twitter? Nothing. :-)
- Panayotis Vryonis
Johnny: I have more discussions b/c my friends engage more there...of course harder to follow and usually include only 2-4 people. I LOVE the threaded comments here, provided a group of intelligent people were chatting, but how often does that happen? Sometimes with people like Scoble, Owyang and Louis Gray? (that's been my experience anyway.)
- Ryan Stephens
Ryan: I don't think it's fair to assume that there is a lack of intelligent conversation on friendfeed, especially with your 12 comments and 2 likes which tells me you've never really tried it out.
- Johnny
I was not fully awake trying to bring up the Twitter page. Good to know it wasn't just me.
- RuthNH
Ryan: I'd be happy to build you a list of friendfeed users and send them to you later today
- Johnny
Sam .. They are like alternate universes. Didn't expect anything in my Facebook feed, but knew it would be hopping here. Love this! This is going to be a Trending Topic I suspect ....
- Joe Magennis
from iPhone
@johnny I'd love to see that list, I'm going to sit down with friendfeed this weekend and figure it out
- Sydney Owen
Well, you mean in general or just the current outage? ;)
- Mads Kristiansen
Sydney: Subscribe to Kol (http://friendfeed.com/koltreg...) He is a very active user on friendfeed and already has a recommendation list. I'd be happy to create an additional one for you as well.
- Johnny
.. Scoble must have run his script again, I guess.. ;)
- Mads Kristiansen
Johnny: That's completely fair. I've lurked a lot & have read a lot of Louis Gray's, Scoble's and Valeria Maltoni's insights with respect to FriendFeed. You're right, maybe I'm not following the right people. And I didn't necessarily mean to imply there was a lack of intelligent conversation. It's just rare that I've seen these discussions develop from anyone's comments aside from a few power users. I'd be grateful for a list of users.
- Ryan Stephens
A social networking coup?
- Melissa Pierce
I heard from someone that Twitter doesn't even know why it's down.
- Paul Chaney
Ryan: I'll subscribe to you and get you a list in the near future. This conversation that you are engaging in right now happens with the majority of users (not just power users).
- Johnny
Yep, Twitter is still not working out here on the east coast @ 10:07am.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
Facebook and Twitter are getting slammed. But internetpulse.net indicates the Internet is humming along.
- Ed Moltzen
Some Graphic Design FriendFeed user names here : http://imjustcreative.com/friendf...
- ImJustCreative
Thank God for Friendfeed and other such Microblogging streams.
- PurpleZoe
Nothing on the twitter blog, which is still up: http://blog.twitter.com
- Dion Hinchcliffe
I'm blaming Jeff Elder for breaking the Twitterz in the Charlotte area, because he wrote a column about how it was good for listening for businesses. http://bit.ly/ospIC
- Andria Krewson
from iPhone
Johnny: But how often does it start from someone's message that's not a 'power user' ? How often does someone following 100, have a 100 followers end up with conversations like this off of one of there comments?
- Ryan Stephens
The Matrix is down... http://friendfeed.com/jeffisa...
- ImJustCreative
Are you asking for a list on how it can be improved, or are you referring to it being down at present? :)
- Alasdair Munn
Failed Whale :-(
- Gee Ekachai
Twitter works via SMS from your phone...
- Tim Elliott
Tim: Who will be able to read it..?
- Johnny
@johnny: if you have it wired to FF then here ;-)
- Tim Elliott
I really being able to be online with FF.. Twitter still down
- Kathy Mackey
Worse yet -- what's wrong with Posterous?
- Daniel B. Honigman
Daniel : Yeah, cant log on to Posterous either
- ImJustCreative
Looks like they're dealing with a DOS attack.
- Michael Chin
More details from Jeff Elder, essentially pointing to Mashable for details. http://bit.ly/XyvnW
- Andria Krewson
from iPhone
Twitter now says they're defending against a denial of service attack: http://bit.ly/IpVQf
- Dion Hinchcliffe
our coverage: Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal Down at the Same Time! Update: Twitter Experiencing DDOS Attack http://bit.ly/vZbMC
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Posterous is acting a little wacky as well.
- Steven Melfi
a lot of things
- andy brudtkuhl
FB down too?
- Alex Hayes
No Twitter? No FB? Yikes! I may actually get some WORK done this morning... :)
- Alex Hayes
i've had problems with Facebook too. as i've been saying, i think friendfeed is the obvious choice for backup scenarios.
- DanielthePoet
Thanks for the recommendation, Johnny. Sydney if you are interested in the list, let me know here: http://ff.im/5IcYN
- Kol Tregaskes
Twitter hit with DDoS attack, Facebook slow, people forced to talk to those around them - http://www.inquisitr.com/32233...
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Facebook Down. Twitter Down. Social Media Meltdown - http://mashable.com/2009...
Jody Raines, Albert, Rares Matei and 24 other people liked this
glad to hear I'm not going crazy! i was trying to post something on facebook earlier and couldn't do it to save my life!
- Bill Latronica
No kidding. I think it's on purpose. But hey, we still have friendfeed!
- Monica O'Brien
identi.ca and friendfeed still are up....
- ovigia
identi.ca stayed up, FriendFeed stayed up as did others...the attack seemed focused on Twitter and for a time FB
- MB Linder
friendfeed to the rescue!
- Jacques Cool
FriendFeed and Identi.ca still up and running :)
- osDesk.com
Twitter is up for me
- Johnny
Not up for me yet, but I'm over the Atlantic!
- cristina sasu
FriendFeed is up, but reaching my saved searches is erratic.
- Sharon McPherson
Good thing I'm using Friend Feed :P
- Geoff Brown
It's like a blackout in the old days - get the candles and the transistor!
- Thom Kennon
Everyone go back to work. There is nothing to see here. Literally.
- Don Underwood
facebook? lollllll, not even the CIA keeps it out of trouble ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- ovigia
http://friendfeed.com/search... Looks like a major internet outage is a-brewing.
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Twitter
- Matthew DeVries
Facebook
- Matthew DeVries
Yup! Whats going to happen?!
- Simon Wicks
Facebooks OK for me, twitters not though
- Simon Wicks
We'll have to imagine what naked girls look like in our minds......or look at real life naked girls.
- Matthew DeVries
Livejournal is out.
- Nine
The Chess.com app for Facebook is out, and I was like 3 moves from winning!
- Matthew DeVries
Where is status.internet.com?
- Rochelle
I think you're onto a winner there Rochelle, get it snapped up quick!
- Simon Wicks
Facebook is screwed, so is Twitter. Even pogo.com is down, I can't even play Monopoly online. :(
- Faraz Mullick
I know......ugghhhh...I need to access the FB Developer App and can't! I can't even access Disqus
- Shevonne
I've heard rumors of rumors about a larger server/router being down in Georgia.
- Matthew DeVries
I just tried to see if internet outage was a trending topic on Twitter... dumbass-------->
- Matthew DeVries
Hahaha
- Simon Wicks
When Twitter is down no one is smarter than you. :)
- Faraz Mullick
http://friendfeed.com/search... Dammit, my thread was firster, and mine identifies that it's more than just Twitter that is down, yet, Owang and Scoble blow my traffic out of the water with their Twitter-centric thread on the great outage of 2009.
- Matthew DeVries
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... Tech crunch has it now, still blamming Twitter itself
- Matthew DeVries
http://status.twitter.com/post... "Update: we are defending against a denial-of-service attack." No you're not, you're a victim
- Matthew DeVries
Wait, how does Twitter being DDoS'd have anything to do with Facebook, Consumerist, etc.?
- Rochelle
We're discussing this topic on FF too! http://ff.im/6fF0t
- Susan Beebe
Rochelle - my guess is that any site dependent on the Twitter API for inbound or outbound updates will be suffering at the moment
- Andrew Terry
Hey Susan! my thread was first, you should be sending your people to me, not back to you! Grrrr!!!!
- Matthew DeVries
Posterous down, too. Hope it's not a feedback loop among all of these sharing sites.
- Eric Johnson
I'm starting to understand the use of real time search, if you look at my link in the top post.
- Matthew DeVries
This isn't even tracking on Google News yet, filtering on the last 24 hours and Twitter, still gives nothing about the outage.
- Matthew DeVries
Has anyone checked with the 4chan kids to see if they know what's up?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, good idea!
- Rochelle
Matthew - no worries, our threads are on different topics (similar though). FF can handle it :)
- Susan Beebe
Wired.com and cnet.com just posted on twitter outage
- Susan Beebe
Ok, we started joking about it - but is anyone else seeing FF buckling under the server load of people actually coming here from Twitter? I'm getting a lot of "Oops there was an error" now. Probably 25% of clicks. Is the DoS being pointed here?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, yes. Also, search and saved searches here are down.
- Rochelle
Is it the attack turning, or just load?
- Matthew DeVries
The great peacemaker in web culture, the man with a knack for the reasonable middle ground, the George Mitchell of the online world, he's at it again, brokering compromise, which is his style http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technol... @Scoble appears as the wild eyed revolutionary who realized he needed to be civilized and finally become an adult.
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Like your web haters all in one place? http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs...
- Jay Rosen
Is Twitter down for you people, as well? It is for me this morning; not even a fail whale.
- Jay Rosen
Yes it is
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
Meanwhile, I am just staggered by the gall of Andrew Keen, but it seems that friends and followers, followeees are just taking it all in stride.Wiser than I am, obviously.
- Jay Rosen
"There is a time in any revolution" when the guillotine or like device begins to do its work. Negotiation may seem "attractive" as your head falls.
- George Frink
If I said, "it is time for newspaper curmudgeons and their most extreme critics in new media to sit down and reason with each other," as if I had no role in the transaction, as if history were weightless and meant nothing because it could be erased in a flash, then I certainly hope I would be laughed off the web. But what Keen is doing is more extreme than that because I didn't write a book trashing the world of newspaper curmudgeons for the fat contract Random House held out to me.
- Jay Rosen
Time to talk. Right. It's time to talk about the over-the-moon, hyper-polarizing rhetoric of this ghastly creature.... "Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement." NOW it's time to talk? What was it time for then? http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog...
- Jay Rosen
He's a troll. Anger is the reasonable response when a troll make pretense at being helpful.
- George Frink
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