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Kol Tregaskes
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What is your Twitter URL? What do you tweet about? Mine is http://twitter.com/koltreg... and I tweet about all sorts :-) #twitter
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August 10 - Comment - Share
Feel free to follow me. This thread could get messy. :-) #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes
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Sorry I had to delete the first post of this, so apologises for the few that posted their URLs on that one. - Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/jcunwired I could use some more followers too. I hope you folks aren't bots! :) - jcunwired
Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada. - Nicholas Kreidberg
Thanks, Nicholas. - Kol Tregaskes
Well I'll still be on Twitter once FF is integrated into FB. Join me on Twitter? :-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/chaz2b my posts start here for what i post on twitter - chaz2b
you rock, Kol! Good community building here. - Valeria Maltoni
http://twitter.com/andrewroche - politics and random stuff (a lot of it from here funnily enough). - Andrew Roche
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;) - Jorge Escobar
http://www.twitter.com/jimgold... - photography and social media - Jim Goldstein
http://twitter.com/magicofpi - you might see a lot of ff.im links there, but I suppose that'll change soon... - Ryan - @magicofpi
http://twitter.com/jwang392 - web design, iphone app development, hawaii events - John Wang
http://twitter.com/onWave - I post links from a useful Twitter tool I made... and sometimes mundane stuff... - Gus
http://twitter.com/fcbosa - social media, blogging, design, inspiration. - Oğuz Serdar
http://twitter.com/seckoa - I enjoy getting new followers - Seckoa from iPod
Thanks guys. - Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/Chronotope - Mostly I tweet about tech stuff and news local to the Northern Virgina area. I also touch on video games and get some blipping in. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
http://twitter.com/kandeezie - randomness and nerdy gadget/tech love. :-p - Kandeezie
http://twitter.com/gabediaz - Design, development, WordPress and all things in between. - Gabe Diaz
http://www.twitter.com/puffadd... I tweet about ninjas lol. - Jason
I basically tweet politics at http://Twitter.com/hopechat; i follow discussions on books, gardening and general stuff on http://Twitter.com/ruthdfw; grantwriting and freelancing on http://Twitter.com/words101 and for anything related to Dallas and surrounding cities it is http://Twitter.com/NDGEditor - R. Ferguson
http://twitter.com/movieguyjon - I say weird shit, bitch at random times, and will say more weird shit. Occasionally I'll post fun things too, with a smidgeon of inane. :P - Jon, the Beartato of FF
http://www.twitter.com/rutgerb... tweet about my daily life (aka status updates), tech and photography. - Rutger Blom from iPhone
Pretty clever way to work in a plug for your timeline.. I like your style, Kol ;) - Brad McCrorey
Http://Twitter.com/Polizeros cleantech, the economy, leftwing politics - Bob Morris (polizeros) from iPhone
Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/niron (isn't it obvious?) - Nir Ben Yona
http://twitter.com/feeniks ... anything that comes to mind at that particular moment :) - Bhowmik Shah
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr. - Dennis Jernberg
http://twitter.com/marcoda... Twitting about Communications, Marketing and something about myself :) - Marco Dal Pozzo
http://twitter.com/tofu916 I tweet about black people and I use a lot of foul language. then I repent. follow mi! :) - Tofu De la Moore from BuddyFeed
http://twitter.com/hoof I tweet a lot in Dutch, about design, photoshop, 3d and everyday life. - Ruud van Wijngaarden
http://twitter.com/wordsfo... - I actually respond to people to want to chat with me ;-) - Jannifer @wordsforliving
http://twitter.com/alexgamela i tweet about media and journalism, and sometimes silly stuff. also in portuguese. - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl
http://twitter.com/glenc but I have to warn you, I stopped following people on Twitter a while ago. I have about 300 subscription notices (unread) in my email. - Glen Campbell, B.A.
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin - Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; ) - Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please. - Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/may_gun My music career, interaction with ppl, The Guild, Wiggly Wigglers. - Spidra Webster
http://twitter.com/casschin - I mostly post up funny/odd web gems and nerdy tech news. Occasionally, I tweet what I eat. - Cassidy
http://identi.ca/andyc Microblog about all sorts but mainly OMB and how much I dislike inferior legacy services. No names, no packdrill. - Andy C
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet. - Felter Roberto from twhirl
http://twitter.com/abrudtkuhl - web strategy & internet marketing + random stuff - andy brudtkuhl
twitter.com/icetiger - Kim
twitter.com/andi1984 - elearning, web 2.0 - Andreas S.
twitter.com/thatpj I tweet about film, politics, and sports. - PJ Edwards
http://www.twitter.com/jbschro... - everything. mostly tech - Johnny
http://twitter.com/islanddog Tech, Gaming, and everything in between - Spencer
http://twitter.com/cacarr - Tech, Cognitive Science - Christopher A Carr
http://twitter.com/livepaola (bilingual, in Italian and English) - Paola Bonomo
http://twitter.com/ozuckan, trilingual, in Turkish, in English, in French, all sort... - Ozgur Uckan
Thanks again. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Twitter.com/mathewballard and I tweet mostly about graphic and web design. - Mathew™ one of a kind from iPhone
http://twitter.com/sidmitra #hack,#hackday, and tech/geek in general. - Siddharth Mitra from twhirl
http://twitter.com/PhilBaumann - I'll tweet about anything stimulating, contentious or jackassy. - phil baumann
http://twitter.com/alejandroz and I tweet about...everything. - Alejandro
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle? - Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore. - Gabrielle V
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust. - sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter... - Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/joeygibson - I tweet about WDW, Java, Groovy, Scala, iPhone, politics, etc. I'm loads of fun. :-) - Joey Gibson
http://twitter.com/burak - I tweet about technology, gadgets, stuff that matters - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
http://twitter.com/super_g... I tweet about bathroom trips, stupidity and cougar sightings - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Fossil, it's @fossilhuntress http://twitter.com/fossilh... The other one doesn't exist. - Kol Tregaskes
It's @bookhling for me. I usually tweet about DIYBio, computers, books, and what I ate for dinner. :) - Sung W. Lim
@JacquesMuffin and I tweet mostly about music. - Olivier de Villardi
Thanks guys. - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes
I have ceased being a twitter user since they are such twats (management) - Richard A.
http://twitter.com/erier2003 - I write about technology, journalism, and Star Wars. But mostly Star Wars. :) - Eric Geller
I twit at http://twitter.com/alfpace on webapps technology cool things - Alfonso Pace from iPhone
Maybe this is a good time to 'reactivate' this thread. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Don't forget the other lists can be found at the hashtag: #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes
@ffcode - ffcode
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread) - Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting. - Eoghann Irving
I have Twitter lists now, and I've started one up for FriendFeeders: http://twitter.com/dennis_...; if you want me to add you to it, @-mention me at http://twitter.com/dennis_.... - Dennis Jernberg
Thanks everyone! - Kol Tregaskes
Just followed you. Btw, mine's - http://twitter.com/jaypee - JP Habaradas
http://twitter.com/DavidHolmes - Focusing on Internet music, Open Content, and the Social Web. I use lists to group/filter the people I follow. - David Holmes
Kol Tregaskes
Kol Tregaskes
POLL: What's Your Favorite Twitter Client? - http://mashable.com/2009...
POLL: What's Your Favorite Twitter Client?
September 18 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
Mine is Seesmic Desktop. Prefer it over Tweetdeck (which I found to have very poor group support). - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet
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TweetDeck for sures! I just couldn't get into the interface for Seesmic Desktop. - Mathew™ one of a kind
I prefer the web or FriendFeed most of the time. I haven't used seesmic but did have tweetdeck a while back and liked it - Wang Yip
Still using Twhirl, because I mainly use it to scan links and random info from friends, the filter is awesome, but I stick to FF most of the time. - Jimminy
I prefer FriendFeed and Posterous. I tried TwitterDeck and Seesmic...hated it - Jeunelle Foster
Seesmic Web, 'cause anything AIR sucks the memory out of my 'puter - Jorge Escobar
For now, I'm using Seesmic Desktop. It won out over TweetDeck when TweetDeck sucked with groups. I don't think that's the case anymore though. Early features = long term customer. - Seth Blank
I wish FF was a viable option but it lacks the features of the dedicated Twitter apps and, of course, if you Twitter friends don't use FF then it's not much use. - Kol Tregaskes
I like TweetDeck. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Brizzly (web) for now. I haven't yet found the one twitter client i really like. - Nik
I used to use Tweetvisor but I wanted a one-column version, which never came, so swapped to a app instead. - Kol Tregaskes
Tweetie's my fave. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I wish there was a decent app for my Nokia. - Kol Tregaskes
Tried Gravity, assuming that it runs S60v3 or later? - Tyson Key
Twitter's Web UI if I'm not using a mobile phone, although Seesmic Web was nice, last time I tested it. - Tyson Key
friendfeed.com - Alex Scoble
Twhirl. - Iván Abrego
CoTweet - Tibor Holoda
I use brizzly, it's the best I have tried so far! - George Moga
Brizzly for web version and I use Digsby for notifications/quick posts. Brizzly I use more when I want to catch up on lots of tweets. - Manuel Mas
The browser! - Michael Fidler
I usually write tweet updates on website itself. I also use Twhirl sometimes but never found something which I could stick to. - mridul
I am liking Brizzly now that I have gotten used to it. Slightly glitchy though. - Matt G
Just signed up for an invite to Brizzly. Seesmic Desktop has been screwed since the new version came out this week. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
and for desktop notifications I use Trillian Astra. - George Moga
I use TwitterGadget (Gmail gadget). But I do like Seesmic when it works. :) - rowlikeagirl
Twitterrific! - k00pa
Kol: I used a Brizzly invite that was weeks old that I found on a FF search and it worked, so it might be worth searching rather than waiting. - Matt G
OK, I'm sure I got an invite a while back but didn't use it... - Kol Tregaskes
tweetdeck and web - i also tried seesmic but prefer tweetdeck for the short urls info preview - barbarars
Twitterfox (Now called Echofon) and Web plus some Greasemonkey scripts... - Jackie
Seesmic on desktop and SimplyTweet on iPhone. Once was Tweetdeck on both - Roberto
Louis Gray
Louis Gray
That Twitter is having 503 errors during a non-crucial update from a tech company does not bode well for an actual emergency.
September 9 - Comment - Share
at least it's my area code - Brian Hendrickson
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i'm hoping one day, we'll all have our own Twitter rather than rely on one company to handle the infrastructure. - Zee.
...I'm glad that just wasn't me. Reloaded three times, still get 503s - .LAG liked that
Lol @ Brian...good one ;) - Dennis Bjørn Petersen
That's what open microblogger should be. Twitter should be an implementation of that, not the other way around. It should be decentralized OR they should get their act together OR they should be purchased by someone who will. - Louis Gray
love the background Louis...the number of people that must have tried clicking on your dock...(including me). :) - Zee.
Have you seen the right side, Zee? - Louis Gray
TweetDeck is still working for me though - Sarah Perez
503s have been driving me nuts, too. FF seems to have enough of a user base to keep us amused without getting bogged down/timing out/crashing. - Jolie O'Dell
O hai Sarah! ;) - Jolie O'Dell
Twitter's never understood how to scale. It's just never been a management priority on their end. - Seth Blank
Seth, that's ludicrous. - Jolie O'Dell
people are looting stores around the world in protest - Allen Stern
I don't know about you guys, but I constantly have the phrase "We're having an earthqu-" typed into my Twitter box so I can be first to post it just by hitting return. - Louis Gray
lol Louis - Jolie O'Dell
Dear god, you've bruised Twitter again, back to the API Apps. - Swaroop
Louis: you're funny! - Robert Scoble
@Louis no - i can't see anything. It won't scroll to the right any further for me either - Zee.
Gee, Twitter should give me my money back! Oh wait. nvm - RAD Moose
I'd pay for it, at this point. I... I need Twitter. I'm pathetic, but it's true. - Jolie O'Dell
They should give you your time back :) - Micah Wittman from iPhone
jolie - we can get you help - i sure hope you really didn't mean that last line! - Allen Stern
Allen, if needing Twitter is wrong, I don't want to be right. - Jolie O'Dell
If twitter is right, I do want to be wrong. Twitter bores me. - Joe
and so do FF feeds full of tweets. - Joe
jolie - give me your location, i am sending some people to your location for help :) - Allen Stern
I do admit TweetDeck has worked great during all this event. I just close the Twitter column and all is well. :-) - Jesse Stay
What platform is Twitter using again :? - Jason Nunnelley
Jason, Twitter's using the Twitter platform - not sure what you mean - Jesse Stay
Hilerious Louis..... - Roberto Bonini from iPhone
Jesse, I'm trying to pick on the framework underneath. But, I actually don't know if they're still messing with Rails. - Jason Nunnelley
Twitter's problem is an issue of priority, if you consider their downtime a failure. I don't. I think it's working out just fine for them. The more they go down, the more people realize they're addicted and continue to use the service. They've almost proven downtime doesn't hurt growth. - Jason Nunnelley
Jason, I think that's a mistake for them to have that attitude. I use Twitter less and less the more they go down, and the more of these shenanigans they keep pulling, both as a developer and user - Jesse Stay
Jesse, not to be a jerk (and I know I'm a broken record), but I assure you they don't care. - Jason Nunnelley
Jason, that's okay - I'm a broken record in trying to get them to care. :-) I do know they're listening though (I've been on a panel with Doug Williams and Ryan Sarver, and chat with Alex and others frequently via e-mail), and they'll apply the things that make the most sense to them, or at least that they're allowed to implement by management and their investors. - Jesse Stay
My hope is my "complaints" are constructive though. I've included a lot of information and suggestions with those complaints, so they can take them as they please - it's not my business in the end, but I'll share the knowledge I have at least. - Jesse Stay
Maybe I should use the Twitter page less and TweetDeck or Seesmic more... - Dennis Jernberg
Dennis, it's an API vs. web interface toss up. There's no doubt their biggest problem is with the web interface, but I've had API fail also. So long as you just want to read tweets, the API seems to be the best route, meaning Seesmic/TweetDeck, etc. seem to work best. - Jason Nunnelley
Louis Gray
Louis Gray to Louis's feed, FriendFeed Feedback
FriendFeed's introductory video (Sign out to see it) "No longer exists" on Vimeo. Ouch.
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August 24 - Comment - Share
boooo - drew olanoff
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Oops. - Seth Blank
$50 million and they'll re-upload it. - Shawn Farner
If there were a :( or a 'sad' or 'don't like' button.. perhaps this is how I would use it... - Holly Rae, FFer
Whoopsie...... - Roberto Bonini
Ouch... We are re-uploading. We didn't touch it - no clue what happened - Bret Taylor
DNL! - AJ Batac
Seth Blank
Seth Blank
Walking home from a meeting and decided to buy mushrooms! (@ Ferry Building in SF) http://playfoursquare.com/venue...
August 13 from Twitter - Comment - Share
You are so down to earth. Pun...hee. I am beat, so may try to do bit of shut eye before I determine if I can venture out for dinner. Not looking good now. - Liza
Hah, no worries. Probably gonna call it an early night anyway. - Seth Blank
Liza
Liza to Liza's feed, Kol Tregaskes
Kol Tregaskes, You deserve the community builder of the year award. Thank you.
August 11 - Comment - Share
But seriously, stop attacking me on Spymaster. - Seth Blank
LOL, I take no prisoners on Spymaster. ;-) Don't worry I think I'm done with Spymaster for a while. Too busy. - Kol Tregaskes
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
Lost 10 spymasters in the last 2 days. What's up with that?
July 22 - Comment - Share
Who pays attention to that stuff? :) - Louis Gray
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Heh, actually, I was just wondering if spam bots were getting cleaned up or something ;-) - Seth Blank
Yeah lost *loads* in the last 24 hours, a lot of dead or suspended accounts. People are giving up on the game. - Kol Tregaskes
Some of those accounts that got suspened, I knew to be valid players, So im wondering what happened - Math Woowong
they were considered spammers/bots by twitter and dropped/suspended. most of the legit ones have been reinstated. - Carlos Ayala
Jon Ursenbach
That's What She Said: Jon Ursenbach
I should hit the sack
July 23 - Comment - Share
I'm a bad influence. - Seth Blank
Kol Tregaskes
Spymaster: Kol Tregaskes
Anyone on Elite Class II or III? Will this continue to Class IV, Class V...?
July 17 - Comment - Share
It goes to class V level 40, I believe - Seth Blank
Sorry for all the assassinations, you're great exp, no threat, and you're not losing any money or weapons to me, so I'm not stealing anything ;-) - Seth Blank
here is your answer Kol, its kind of funny and sad...at the same time: http://blog.playspymaster.com/ - Carlos Ayala
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
Damn you guys. How are there 291 of you of better rank than me?! ;-) http://playspymaster.com/profile...
July 10 - Comment - Share
Haha, which one of you assholes posted "official crybaby status" on my profile? Well done. - Seth Blank
I WISH I did. But I didn't. :) - Louis Gray
That'll be me then at 205. - Kol Tregaskes
Carlos Ayala
Spymaster: Carlos Ayala
Huh?
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July 3 - Comment - Share
Any idea if you actually lose everything or just your statistics? - Wang Yip
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Did you do it Carlos? - Vox
Went ahead and became #spymaster Class I Elite. Guess it's worth it... - Czar
i am giving it 24 hours before i quit. i am getting tired of their 'ideas'. - Carlos Ayala
I'll do it only because I don't care. :) - Louis Gray
Yep you lose *everything*. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
It doesn't take very long to get to level 30 btw, just hit the top task every time. - Kol Tregaskes
I clicked it because I was BORED with the game. - Seth Blank
Quick tip or at least something to try before you turn Elite. How about selling everything you own, all your houses, etc. and transferring all your money to another user, switch to Elite then transfer the money back? - Kol Tregaskes
And no I didn't do this, I thought about it *afterwards*. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
@koltregaskes Yeah... I had the same idea *after* I erased all assets, lol. Oh well. Maybe for class II elite. ;-) - Czar
But where is the advantage or addition for being an Elite? - Kol Tregaskes
@koltregaskes You have a nifty yellow title next to your name in the assassinate page. Other then this, IDK. - Czar
Czar, exactly. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
wow these guys cant even come up with good responses as to why anyone should continue playing: http://getsatisfaction.com/spymast... - Carlos Ayala
+1 Carlos, it doesn't feel like they really thought things through as to the overall development of the game - Wang Yip
From 1 to level 17 has only taken a day btw, so pretty quick. - Kol Tregaskes
Heh, and the SpamMaster "game" unfurls! Yay! - Tyson Key
My quick tip above is not very quick as you can only transfer £736,000 a day from one account to another, so if you have £4m or so it's going to day a few days. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Kol Tregaskes
Spymaster: Kol Tregaskes
I have a couple of new high riskers on my list: @gregarious (level 36) and @chrisheuer (level 33).
June 23 - Comment - Share
Hah. I know both of them (in person). They've got huge followings on twitter. - Seth Blank
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Ah, that helps a lot. - Kol Tregaskes
You're sometimes on my list if it makes you feel better Kol :) I'm just killing everyone on the leaderboards now, what fun! - Gregarious
LOL. - Kol Tregaskes
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
w00t! I'm finally level 40.
June 22 - Comment - Share
Welcome to the club, so are you finding you aren't getting much from successful assassinations now? I've given up and just do the high-paying task. - Kol Tregaskes
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Yeah, assassinations are useless. I have every safehouse, so I get about $6k/turn and make roughly $1mil every 1/3-1/2 a day. It all just goes in the bank. Buying items seems useless because they just get stolen. I'm waiting until I can buy 100 stealth armored cars. That'll be in about two years. - Seth Blank
Nice, Seth. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
I guess the safe houses are good for something. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
Look at this putz, going on a killing rampage but with NO defensive items so that when you retaliate, you can't win anything back :-(
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June 22 - Comment - Share
Then again, you did steal one of my coupes, ya punk. - Louis Gray
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Hey, *you* attacked me first ;-) - Seth Blank
Typo. :) - Louis Gray
I found the same thing unfortunately - Wang Yip
Louis Gray
Spymaster: Louis Gray
Paranoid much?
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June 20 - Comment - Share
I like seeing Spymaster plots on my Twitter feed. So I attacked Viod 3 times. Win. - Louis Gray
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And no... I am not the same as that other Twitter account. _as if_ - Louis Gray
LOL. Well if you need a hand if any attacks just give me a shout. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
From here: http://twitter.com/Viod... and note he didn't do @ because he thought I wouldn't see it. :) - Louis Gray
I've just been exchanging tweets with this person, he called *us* goons. Though there was no us and he assumed "we" we're all attacking him and mentioned geystone422. LOL. - Kol Tregaskes
It's not to kill him. It's to get Experience points and annoy him too. :) - Louis Gray
:-) Also, I've found lots of people lying about their level, e.g. saying they are level 368 but are actually 33 or 32. What is the point, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes
hehe - a level 3 couldn't assassinate a level 34 - who knew? - WorldofHiglet
Hehe, we have to attack him now, lol. - Kol Tregaskes
Attacked him, too ;-) - Seth Blank
BTW if you can win against @Vertago1 you can reap the benefits, just got 487k XP points - though I'm sure I'll get hit for 10 again now. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
It looks like some gangs are mentioned here, see the zombie* tags: http://twitter.com/kathcom - Kol Tregaskes
Might have something to do with this. :) @fpiraz committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were killed in action. You lost assets totaling £29.14K (about 7 hours ago) - Louis Gray
Kol Tregaskes
Spymaster: Kol Tregaskes
Is it me or do we not get any assets from we win an attack but *always* lose assets when we lose an attack?
June 18 - Comment - Share
It depends on the level and risk. If you attack someone of a higher level with medium or high risk, you get items. When you attack someone of low risk or lower level, you don't get items. Problem is, the assassination dashboard doesn't show you players of higher levels when you're in the 30s :-( - Seth Blank
the reward system has been tweaked. ive been attacked and defending against all levels and items have not been won or lost in any of my recent battles (except for a little bit of money)...and there have been a lot of battles. i am not sure what seth is experiencing but i see only from 30-36 in my dash. currently i'm 32. - Carlos Ayala
Louis Gray
Spymaster: Louis Gray
Seems too crazy to buy. Want to sell off a few Safe Houses, and get this instead?
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June 17 - Comment - Share
Not worth the price and you will lose it on the next attack - zsafwan 
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the price per additional defence point for both cars is silly high (£3,478 & £9,273 against the Sentry Gun @ £286 per Defence point). Given the directorate's propensity for nerf'ing stuff I'd horde the cash, unless it's a required for higher tasks - John Bradford
I agree with John - why would anyone buy this or the armored car now that the armored car has been nerfed down to +100 defense - Wang Yip
the cars in this game are worthless. unless stolen or won and then immediately sold for a portion of the actual price. - Carlos Ayala
With a 60% markdown now. Holy cow. - Louis Gray
I bought 2 and then lost both in assassinations :-( Not worth it. Grumble. - Seth Blank
Louis Gray
Spymaster: Louis Gray
So ... yeah... cut it out.
June 17 - Comment - Share
@boyzo attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £37.87K (2 minutes ago) @Mixer967 attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £42.82K (11 minutes ago) @boyzo attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £44.13K (11 minutes ago) @boyzo attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £9099.17 (12 minutes ago) @boyzo attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £29.99K (12 minutes ago) - Louis Gray
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Haha, yeah assasinations are pretty successful atm. :-) Up to lvl 33 in quick time. - Kol Tregaskes
You're getting some good money there, Louis. - Kol Tregaskes
I intend to keep it, Kol. - Louis Gray
Just wounded @boyzo and got a cool 500k XP pages. :-) No money though. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Ugh, boyzo had it out for me too - Seth Blank
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
I lost 5 armored luxury cars today :-( Who wants to start an agency? ;-)
June 16 - Comment - Share
Perhaps we should, I lost a few today too. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
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I bought one, lost one, won one, won another. Note to self - never buy, they come for free. - Louis Gray
losing one is like a punch in the kidneys LOL - Vox
So, shall we? - Seth Blank
Kol Tregaskes
Spymaster: Kol Tregaskes
Assassinations seem to have been improved today. I'm getting a lot more wins that I should be getting now. Anyone else seen any improvements?
June 7 - Comment - Share
I'm glad as assassinations are the more fun part of the game. - Kol Tregaskes
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Alex, when I attempt to assassinate you it gets stuck every time. Everyone else seems to work. - Kol Tregaskes
negative. for me its become a lot worse. maybe its because ive been doing them more often than anything else. but let's just say that on my last hit i lost over 300K to someone less powerful than me. and my ratios, all around have gotten worse. actually, ive gone from being a hard target to a very low target. my defenses are way down. :( so much for exp points. - Carlos Ayala
I can't seem to win against any other level 30s :-( Lower level ones are easy. Gah. - Seth Blank
Seth, what's your stats? I'm having a lot more success now but have built up my defence and attack stats. - Kol Tregaskes
Don't know if you guys know this but if you attack a target consistently the chances of you winning the assassination decreases and eventually you'll lose every time. - Phillip Britton
they improved for me as well but i think that came from a combination of actually taking part in more hits and improving my ring. that said though, in a minute everybody playing will be at 30. this is the equivalent of a reset imo and the reason why so many have dropped it completely. in my ring alone at least 50 stopped playing or moved on to that silly 140mafia game. - Carlos Ayala
Phillip, so never attack the same person twice? - Kol Tregaskes
ive attacked 3 times in a row and killed a player. but that has been a rare occurrence. ive lost on multiple hits more than i have won. so i can see this being the case. - Carlos Ayala
I wouldn't say don't attack the same person twice, but don't attack them time after time after time again, attack others and then go back to that person. But in short answer, go after other players then come back to that person. - Phillip Britton
Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Burning question of the day: French Fries, Onion Rings, or Tater Tots?
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June 7 - Comment - Share
Onion rings...especially if I'm going to Sonic...Fries if I'm going to In N Out though. - Alex Scoble
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I dunno, dude... Sonic has some pretty jam up Tots. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Onion Rings, ftw - Jim Easley
french fries, 'cause this is FF! - Jim Hearts FF
Frickin' fries dude! - Eric @ CS Techcast
Jim of the Fresh Hair Cut... you are Fired! That is most certainly the cheese we were missing ;-) LOL - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Tater tots with nacho cheese. - Anika
You forgot waffle fries! This is hilarious because we actually had a very heated office debate on Friday about which was better waffle fries or tater tots. Waffle fries won out. - James Poling
Fries, with Onion Rings a close second. - Michael Fidler
Tater Tots - Brent - Long Live Rock
Fries - Elena
FRIES - Alp
Tots - Alan Simpson
Fries, w/ onion rings a happy periodic indulgence. - Ayşe E.
I just saved the French Fries picture as my wallpaper... - Jackie
All three like a sampler plate! mmmm - *Tiffany Diamond*
If they're sucky fries like the ones at Wendy's, I'll have tots. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Yes. - l0ckergn0me
I would have to say oldskool fries (done properly), which are called "Pommes Frites" here (and in France I presume). Especially since I haven´t seen "Tater Tots" before, but they look somewhat like our round "Pommes Noisettes" or maybe like a miniature "Rösti". Anyone know ? - Thomas Bøhm
Tots > Onion rings > Waffle fries > Regular fries. The thin/short tots are especially good. - Alix Whitmire
Fries > Waffle fries > potato wedges > tots. You can keep the onion rings. ick. - ♥patricia♥
Yes please. :) But usually Fries > Tots > Onion Rings. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Onion Rings! - Sharon McPherson
I'll have fries with that, please! - Jeff P. Henderson
steak fries. - B. Hatin
French Fries - ever so slightly > Onion Rings - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Texas toothpicks may trump them all, but it's hard for me to get them (and no, I will NOT try to make them, myself!). Potato wedges are also nice. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Depends on which fries and which onion rings. But hardly ever tatertots. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Tots please... - Nikhil Dandekar
French Fries Pomme Frites - infodiva
onion rings & Alex is right, esp if they are from Sonic. - R. Ferguson
The best onion rings over the best fries. - mikepk
Waffle fries > fries > tater tots > wedges... no onion rings. - PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
Waffle Fries - Johnny
Tots - Anna Lynn M.
Tater Tots then Fries. Rings are disposed. - Louis Gray
When at home.. tater tots. French Fries any other time. Not a big Onion Ring fan. - Sean
Not sure…I think I'll have to try all three to verify… - Glen Campbell, B.A.
French (err, Freedom) Fries :) - Roberto Bonini
All the pictures just get me in a heap bit of trouble - must go with the fries. - Janet
Tots for breakfast and fries for lunch or dinner. - David Cook
Chili cheese tater tots </monkeywrench> - Ha3rvey (not Akiva) from fftogo
Onion rings FTW! - Michael Forian
Tater tots would never win with me. Tough call between fries & onion rings, depends where they're from. Tony Roma's brick onion rings FTW above all other fries, but typical fries vs typical rings I'd go with the fries. - Robert DeBord
I like all of them. Bring them on. :-) - Raoul Pop
fries. definitely fries. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Fries, if I can make them myself. - Ian May
tater tots - Moved to Facebook
In order of preference: fries, tots, onion rings. But bring all 3, thanks - Andy Bakun
All of the above. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)
McD's fries, or Arby's curly fries. Onion rings are good, too, but most fast food places have crappy ones (Sonic's are pretty good). I hardly ever have tater tots even though I like stuff like hash browns. - Cheryl Jones
Fries > Tots > nothing > Onion rings [OK, that doesn't parse right. I mean that I'd rather have nothing than have onion rings, but one could read that in part as "nothing is better than onion rings". What a crazy language.] - Fred Yankowski
Fries. Tots are really good too, when they aren't grease-soaked. Onions should get naked. - Wade Dorrell
Sweet Potato Fries. If that breaks the rules, onion rings. - Jeanine W.
Bleh, I hate this post. I'm broke ... and I want some onion rings! Lovely, batter that melts in your mouth, nice and hot onion rings. :-P - Matthew Horton
Jeanine W, I was about to say that sweet potato fries are the bomb!!! especially with a little butter. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Matt, right there with you. It keeps popping up and making me NEED to go get some chili cheese fries. But I'm being strong! - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I've gotten no end to the grief from various girlfriends about my love of tater tots. Apparently, I am not alone! - Seth Blank
Onion Rings... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
I think Ms. Tinypants posted a recipe a while back with cheese and bacon wrapped tater tots. They were yum. - Alix Whitmire
Fries. Anywhere, but especially McD's. - Helen Sventitsky
Hold up now. CHEESE AND BACON WRAPPED TATER TOTS? I must find this. *goes searching* - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Haha, found it. I had already liked it. I = bad memory tonight. http://friendfeed.com/tinypan... - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
None of these. Chips rule. - Mo Kargas
LOL, Jandy!!! That sounds so decadent. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
French Fries - Nicholas James
fries - Herb Hernandez
Onion rings! Is this even a question? - Mark Horne
Onion Rings of the Sonic variety - tony
French Fries. Sick of onion rings and tater tots. Oh, and I really hate In-n-Out fries. - Wirehead
Toujours les pommes frites. - Kate Foy
The first thing I'm doing if I go to the US sometime? Eat something fried and cheesy:) - Thomas Bøhm from BuddyFeed
Easy, french fries. - Diego Barros 
Completely depends on where I'm eating. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
French fries. Haven't had the other ones (Australia doesn't believe in 'Tater Tots') - Larry Hudson
Oh, and might I add you left off floppy chips as an option which is a travesty. Floppy chips are teh nom! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
damn important question. - Thomas Hawk
french fries please! - Simon Wicks
Onion rings. - James Myatt
French fries anywhere but Sonic then is is TOTS honey! No onion rings...EVER! - VP Medical
TOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - JA Castillo
Had onion rings last night, I think partially because of this post. :) - mikepk
French Fries - Shevonne
Do onion rings count as one of your five a day? ;-) - Gee Ranasinha
Gee, if you put Ketchup then YES! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
i have slowly moved from fries at most places and gone rings or tots. - (jeff)isageek
To clarify on everyone's request to add chips, we must keep our British friends in mind here... I think everyone is referencing "potato chips" not what we Americans call "french fries"... - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Or Pomme Frittes :D - Moved to Facebook from IM
Fries - Chris Luckhardt
French Fries for me please. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Tater Tots, mashed up in a bowl with lots of ketchup! - Mike Reynolds
YES. - Steven Perez
Mike, that sounds like mashed potato crunch! Interesting casserole idea ;-) I dunno about the Ketchup though... - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Carlos Ayala
Spymaster: Carlos Ayala
are your accounts still down???
June 2 - Comment - Share
mine never came back and has been officially reset. not sure this is worth it anymore. the only reason i am dealing with it is because i realize that the service is free and in beta. i am hoping they make things right. if your account is still down or has been reinstated please comment below. - Carlos Ayala
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cma3 - nuked / reset to zero - Carlos Ayala
No refund yet, will be charging them interest. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
hang on Kol..so your account has been reinstated you just have no money in it? i am confused - Carlos Ayala
No money, no. Nothing back. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
I got mine back....the money just went down from 5 billion to the normal figure - Nicholas James
i'm not back in yet.. I'm in now, but at level 1. clock's not running. this could be related to clearing out the cache... i can see from twitter that somebody's taken a go at me, but i'm not able to play...still hoping to have my setting restored - Adrian Chan
I shot them an email, apparently there are 150 or so accounts lost in limbo somewhere that they're going to try to manually restore today. Hold tight, I know I am, because I'm in the same pissed-off-i-want-my-character-back boat. - Seth Blank
my account was restored to just under the level i was at and with most of my money gone. i am going to give myself some time away tonight and see how i feel tomorrow. i may come back and i may not. i really like the game, but this took a bit too much out of me. - Carlos Ayala
i'm back in also, 1 level down but at level 20. I have the stuff i bought w/ funds however, thousands of guns and all the safehouses. I've asked at getsatisfaction that they take some of those away from me, when they have the time. I bought them before seeing the hack posted here, and didn't use my 4.7b to transfer funds to friends. Just loaded up on weapons and safehouses. - Adrian Chan
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
Great, the people utilizing the game the MOST and providing valuable feedback are the ones most penalized by this. I noticed the bug, screwed around to see if I could reproduce it / figure out why it was happening, and REPORTED it. And for that my account gets canceled. Way to respect feedback.
June 1 - Comment - Share
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Rob, from what I gather, Seth is part of the Spymaster Team now. I'm not saying this to be mean, Seth, but good luck, seriously. be careful. - Brandon
Brandon, I'm not part of any spymaster team. I just decided that instead of bitching, I'd shoot Eston an email. And he was quite responsive, gave me the lowdown, and walked me through what they were doing. They totally fucked up in a lot of ways, have admitted it, and are trying to make things right. My character is still nuked, too! - Seth Blank
Alright fellas, so here's my understanding of the whole sitch. So we have had some people who FOUND money in their accounts and we have had some users generate money with a BUG in our system. We're all clear on this, yes? We didn't like the fact that users were exploiting this bug by offering to wire users ridiculous amounts of money, posting YouTube videos, facebook updates, etc. I... more... - Phillip Britton
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing!...
June 1 - Comment - Share
I think that was the marketing goal of Microsoft's search team. - Robert Scoble
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So.... you like? - Chris Foley
oy. - drew olanoff
Or, Caching! - Jesse Stay
Chris: yeah, but not enough to switch. - Robert Scoble
Is today the public launch? - Allen S.
Chris, at least not enough to switch for most searches. But for shopping, video, and travel, they have a good shot there. - Robert Scoble
Sounds like a Vegas slot machine :) - Nir Ben Yona
BONG! - Amit Morson
I like that you can scroll over porn videos and they automatically play! hehehehehe. Got that from TechCrunch's MG Siegler artcle just now and that LOIC is twittering about it - Stephen Pickering
I've run several product reviews searches. It sure is FAST. - Chris Foley
Kurt: I won't say anything about that, but, yes, it's already a great porn search engine. - Robert Scoble
Ok Ok Ok, I'm coming. Hold your horses. I know it says ring for assistance but...... - dedlam
Total number of results is - as with all search engines - completely inaccurate and changes when you drill into the results. - petitesphrases
dedlam: hehehe. I just had to do the multiple "bings" because that's what Twitter and friendfeed look like tonight. http://www.bing.com/ is it! - Robert Scoble
bing is now live. live is now bing. - ronald widha
Oh definitely, Craigslist, now Tumblr - Stephen Pickering
I quite like the look and feel. colorful but not too overbaring - ronald widha
I agree with Ronald. Looks very nice. I hope this gives Goog some competition. Finally. And a search deal with Yahoo! would only help. Sounds like Carol Bartz is open to that. - Allen S.
@scobleizer I know what you mean. And Google's WAVEing back - dedlam
I'm digging Bing, against my better judgement. Microsoft may finally be on to something. We'll see if I stick with it. #bing - Don MacAskill
burp. yawn. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Dont you mean cha-ching! cha-ching! cha-ching! ? I bet that's the sound MS is really looking for... - Seth Blank
http://www.bing.com/search... this is how a search engine should work ;p - Janos P Toth
Second impression: 10 blue links. - Janos P Toth
Hey Robert, I want to hear that on a CinchCast recording that I can play as my alarm message when I wake up. - Jesse Stay
Results for the magical words. " friend feed bing! " http://www.bing.com/search... - Mac Sharp
Ping? - Tyson Key
Robert: You need to pace yourself....or you will be all Bing'ed out! - Clifford Kennedy
I'm enjoying the nice backgrounds of photos from around the world on Bing. OTOH, that history of all my searches showing up on the side reminds me of always having to delete spams from my yahoo account---yuk! Too Much To Handle. I don't like all that clutter at ALL. Will deter me from any use! - Elizabeth Good
Son of a BING!! BING is causing my firefox to crash when I mouseover a video result! - Gaurav
Gaurav: Safari crashed on me too a couple of times when doing that. - Robert Scoble
...fries are done! Oh wait, that's ding. - Gurpreet
It's nice but I think there is too much hype over a name and a nice design. - Charles Naut
Most glaring omission for me: No chronological filtering... last 24hrs, week, month year, etc Most times, I don't want to see 2006 in my results! - Jeff Weber
I'm excited too but, damn. - © b e e n s w a n k
Bing! Bong! Bing! Bong! Bing, yet to Bong! - Mohammad Abdurraafay from Nambu
not enough! yet - ★ Soner Gönül
Jeeeez! I thought you had not recovered from your weekend on the Nimitz. Silly me. - Francine Hardaway
it's not bad - Thomas Power
But It's Not Google! But It's Not Google! But It's Not Google! But It's Not Google! - Dobromir Hadzhiev
"I'm dreaming of my search results, just like the ones that google shows" (sung to the tune of White Christmas by Bing Crosby) - jcunwired
Heh, whilst I'm by no means a fan of Microsoft, or an apologist for them (such things exist? ;)), it is a pretty good attempt from them. I haven't had a look at the rest of Bing's functionality, though. - Tyson Key
Anyone willing to do a "Pepsi Test" on Bing, to see how it compares to Google? ;) - Tyson Key
A big BOO for bing.com redirecting to livesearch on the iPhone. MS is shooting themselves in foot by not making Bing accessible on that platform. - Andy
I actually like Bing, and I might use it as my default search engine. I should really check *everything* out, though - TeraDyne Azurepaw
crosby?..sorry had to... - Samuel Lewis from twhirl
I think the Pop Tarts are ready! Unless that was the fire alarm battery... - Tyson Key
It's just not the same as Google or DuckDuckGo.com. - Eric
Bing! Bing! Bing! ... BOooOM! i am addicted to google! ;o) - Fırat DEMİREL
I bing u. - alireza
Well, in Sweden we haven't got all the features yet apparently. For an example, video search. So no...I'll stick with Google...Google...Google. Repeat it, you will never switch :p - Patrik Johansson
Patrik: Its in BETA everywhere except the US. I think its good even using the BETA - Nicholas James
Arrête de boire Bob ! ;) - Jean-Marie Gall from twhirl
Patrik, in holland it's very basic as well, I think only the news tab have been implemented here. But from seo point it does suck quite much actually. - Jaap Willem
So, are you Binging? - Rubin
****THIS IS ROBERT SCOBLE'S FINEST MOMENT ON FRIENDFEED.**** - teh Dork Knight
robert the big issue is the focus on hypervideo interactivity. they know the living room and all that they are doing with Xbox and windows TV sync tech it's about hypervideo interactivity with product placement tracking. but no one is catching that ... - davidlee
OMG I LOVE BING! - John Shue
I take it you like Bing? - Hunt
Bing..... Still has a long way to go for me to use it. Possibilities seem like they may be promising. We will have to see what type of ad campaign they will come out with as i see regular internet users not liking the name when they first here about it. - Chris Nwakalo
Used Bing alot today...I think its great...my new homepage, why? The search functionality is good enough and the video search is fantastick...plus I really like the competition for Google - Daniel Kenney
I tried Bing for a bunch of things today - Movies, Hotels, Shopping - i.e. the things that it's supposed to be good for. The movie search was reasonable but for that as well as for every other query, I was more clicks from what I wanted than I was with Google. It's their best search engine yet and surprisingly close, but it's not quite there. - Robin Barooah
Yep, it looks like Microsoft is really on to something here. I am looking forward to trying Google Wave as well. - Michael Bazzoni
bing bing? - Jason Pollock
I just searched "why bing?" on bing. Bing wasn't aware of its presence. Nothing related on the first page. I recommend a better name for this, Bang. Apparently it is welcomed as a porn search engine. - Cem ARGUN
you can also 'xrank' your searches for data. there's no data at the moment on robert scoble, but here's one on leo laporte: http://www.bing.com/xrank... - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Phillip Britton
Spymaster: Phillip Britton
Hello ladies. @SpyMasterPhil here on Twitter. If you guys have any feedback be sure to @reply me or send check out our feedback page here: http://getsatisfaction.com/spymast...
June 1 - Comment - Share
great job fixing the game by resetting valid players. i am pretty sure that you guys went the wrong way about this. - Carlos Ayala
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wtf..it looks like we were singled out. wtf is this??? a search on twitter displays people playing normally. - Carlos Ayala
Yup, they didn't reset everyone, just people who were sending money they gained through the bug...a bug that was solely the fault of the developers. Plus they reset accounts of some really vocal people. Do you think that Bwana and Louis Gray are liable to continue to play the game and talk about it in positive terms now? I think not. Well Phil, thanks for freeing up my time again because now I don't have to spend it playing your game. - Alex Scoble
@Phillip I wrote a post detailing my exact involvement here: http://bit.ly/lUPul ... It's funny how your team is calling me a "hacker." Cut out the narrative and post some facts. - Brandon
Brandon, I don't think they're calling you a hacker, I think they're playing this off inside the world of the game and saying the problem was due to "hackers." If people think that means you, take the notoriety and run with it ;-) - Seth Blank
Can we not provide feedback here? It's so much easier for us (better than Twitter anyway unless it fits within 140 characters ;-). - Kol Tregaskes
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
There's some nasty bug right now, 2.37 TRILLION dollars just showed up in my bank account.
June 1 - Comment - Share
Yeah, we're working that out, that money might be disappearing soon. But a word of advice: We do monitor all user activity so I wouldn't recommend wiring some of that off to friends. - Phillip Britton
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Given I have trillions in my account, I assume I will be banned as well. Let's see how many are impacted. I would guess, Phillip, that those who get banned due to this bug won't be back. So it'll be a question of choice. - Louis Gray
if they are truly tracking the transactions, they should be able to figure out whats what Louis. - Carlos Ayala
Well, it is sort of the nature of the game to lie, cheat, steal, and kill ;-) If someone were to find and exploit a bug, I honestly don't think anything bad should happen to them except maybe having their swiss account depleted to $0 and "Frozen" by the FBI for a while ;-) - Seth Blank
that's actually a very funny and valid point lol - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
The way the devs handled this by resetting accounts back to square one is ridiculous. You DO NOT punish users for your mistake. Sorry, but you guys need to do your due diligence before releasing your software out to the world. Software design FAIL! - Alex Scoble
I was wondering what that was, received as dm on twitter on my cellphone, and then emptying what time I had left to still receive phone calls. Spymaster... 9) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I very much agree with alex - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Alex, I couldn't have said it better! - Brandon
I can't even get in, which i'm assuming could mean that i've been blocked? Since game play continues for others? For the record i was one to receive 4.7b, which was not my doing. I bought safehouses and armed myself, assuming something weird was up. After seeing the transfer hack posted here I did nothing. I just want to keep playing, from where I was before i used money hack... more... - Adrian Chan
clear your cache Adrian. youve been reset too. - Carlos Ayala
i'm appealing -- i didnt transfer anything. just want my level and min of weapons back. where's the UN when you need it? - Adrian Chan
use the link i just posted. - Carlos Ayala
I hope they listen to you, Adrian...but considering how they dealt with this problem (which was caused by lack of QA on their part), I doubt they will be responsive to you. - Alex Scoble
Shame they handled it this way. I won't be playing their little game any more that's for sure. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
What'dya say we trend #spymasterfail ;-) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sorry guys, we had to lock down the problem before it spread any further. We're going to reinstate many accounts shortly. (Remember, this is still beta…) - Eston Bond
The money laundering message is what did it for me. That's pretty messed up. - Bwana ☠
This rogue agent is history - Bwana ☠
Eston, your handling of the situation left a lot to be desired. The message on getsattisfaction was insulting. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
guruvan, I'm not going to get it right every time, but I'll do the best I can in the given moment. We're human, and we all err at some point or another. - Eston Bond
Oh, c'mon. That's not even trying. It's straight insulting to accuse people of cheating, when you could have just as easily read in here that there was one player running a script. Yes you're human, but the fact is that you've handled things in the same kind of arbitrary way that things on twitter usually get handled. No regard for your players. No regard for the people who helped you get the game rolling as fast as you did. Shame - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, I didn't even know about this forum until I posted. I've only been handling this exploit for the past two hours because I've had to work on a bunch of other stuff. A firestorm appeared and I made the quickest decision I could to try to curb it. Perhaps mistakes were made, and we're doing the best we can to come to a better solution now. If I didn't have regard for Spymaster users, I would leave all of you guys reset and wouldn't do as much as say a word about it. I'm trying to reach a better solution. - Eston Bond
My point is, before you got to this forum, you insulted all your players, in the GetSatisfaction forum. I sure won't be back to the game.You curbed the firestorm in the favor of a game instead of the people playing it. "The Directorate is not responsible for money laundering operations and, just as in the real spy world, you should never give out your Swiss Bank account number to anyone... more... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I can't convince you into thinking in my perspective; all I can do is offer an apology.I think there's also a misunderstanding here. None of you guys should have been blocked. If you received a message saying something was down, something was actually down. - Eston Bond
Any account that was reset was not blocked outright. Any failwhale message or the like was another issue that had *nothing* to do with this, and I can assure you that I was not trying to deceive you or anyone else into thinking we were down. Your account would simply have been zereoed. - Eston Bond
eston - i am sure the spymaster's plates r quite full right now and it appears that some if not all of you are new(ish) to friendfeed but i gotta say that even from the perspective of someone who didnt have a swiss account and never was effected by the glitch the way it is being handled is making it difficult for me to want to continue playing - the community here is very supportive... more... - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Marco, I understand your concerns. Perhaps I have done a poor job of communicating things, but this is all very new to many of us. I'm not trying to get anyone angry; I'm just trying to weed out spreading exploits as fast as I can. - Eston Bond
I'm not trying to make anyone feel like an "obstruction." I understand a lot of you are frustrated, but I'm also reversing decisions as best as I can if I feel I've messed up. Like I said above to Rob, if I didn't appreciate our users, I wouldn't be in this group right now. I can't do anything more than explain why decisions were made and hope that those, no matter how much they didn't... more... - Eston Bond
Explain the 404s that YOUR site is handing out. It's NOT a failwhale. It was blocked for hours, until this very discussion started in here. You're not telling the whole truth. And if this is the whole truth as far as you know, your partners and/or employees are feeding you a line. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
i appreciate that - i have no doubt that you have all spent the last several days between several rocks and hard places - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Rob: I didn't mean Twitter failwhales, but our error page titles of "The Directorate couldn't assassinate the failwhale." Our engineers just ran a tail on the logs and said he didn't seem to find any 404 statuses. What I do know is that we had a couple of servers go down and that caused some outages for some people (which led to a 500 - saying "The Directorate is being jammed," which is... more... - Eston Bond
I sat on your page for at least 2 hours getting a 404 everytime I loaded it. I'm over it. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yeah, I'm sorry I don't know what to tell you about that. I have nothing about a 404 in the logs, so I really can't explain that. - Eston Bond
After the site went down, the error we were all getting (those whose accounts were disabled) was a 404 no matter which page you went to until you nuked your playspymaster.com cookies / restarted the browser. - Seth Blank
I didn't restart my browser of nuke my cookies, and after we started this discussion in here, I finally got to the correct (non 404) page. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Weird. I don't really have anything on the 404s, but I'll pass it onto the engineers. We just finished reinstating accounts and all levels, etc. should be back to normal. You might have an inaccurate spy ring but that should be updated shortly. To deal with the exploit, we've still had to zero swiss bank balances and reset liquid funds to $500K US to attempt to be reasonable. Also, *please* guys, if you find any exploits, email me directly at eston@ilist.com. - Eston Bond
Rob
Spymaster: Rob
Uh-oh. Spymaster's crashed (503 service unavailable)
June 1 - Comment - Share
They're probably fixing the wire transfer bug - Seth Blank
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Could be. Or the syncing of the top and left-hand stats displays - Rob
Nope, not the stats displays - Rob
The Spymaster server couldn’t find the page you’re looking for. Try going home. - Louis Gray
Did they reset the game? - Alex Scoble
I'm getting 'go home' Think I will - Rob
Seth Blank
Spymaster: Seth Blank
To spymaster admins: how can I get rid of the 3+T in my swiss account? The game's no fun with infinite money.
June 1 - Comment - Share
And clearly I'm not going to transfer it to another user ;-) - Seth Blank
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Yes, I am one of the 3%. I'm going to get a T-shirt that says "blame Scoble. He's technically difficult and weird." (Actually that was a Facebook employee who said that, but it fits here too).
May 14 - Comment - Share
Join the 3% Club. Tweet the hashtag #3% so everyone knows who we are. - Ryan Kuder
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I already blame you for a number of things - http://seanreiser.com/node... - Bastard Operator From FF
We love you Robert ;) - Vlad Zabblotskyy
Link to something explaining the 3%? Google is useless :-( - Seth Blank
Will these t-shirts be for sale?! - Fred Garrett
I was one of the 3% too. Will proudly wear the shirt. - Jared Smith
Love the #3% hashtag idea - Bailey McCann
3% of Twitter users is a lot, especially since they're probably the most active. Unlike the half of Twitterers that leave after one week #3% - Laaabaseball
Yes, I am definitely in the 3%. Thanks for the link Ryan! #fixreplies #3% ;-) - Seth Blank
I was one of the 3%. I'm surprised that number is so low considering how passionate everyone was about the change. Although, I encountered maaany people angry about it but didn't even know what the change was. - Lise
I am surprised it's that low, too. We sure are loud for 3%. I wonder what percentage we are of active users, though, as opposed to total signups? - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
The bigger problem is that the 3% were the vast majority of the early adopters who helped increase twitter's value in the first place. - Seth Blank
Jandy: out of 1,000 people who visit Twitter, only 10% probably make ANY noise at all and probably only 10% of those (1%) are people like us. So, 3%? That's a LOT of noisy people! - Robert Scoble
Seth: and that's the deeper problem. Twitter doesn't care about early adopters anymore and have made several moves that communicate that. - Robert Scoble
If you are going to be at gnomedex, I have a friend who makes T-Shirts, need a cool graphic but I'll print them and bring them. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
I probably shouldn't... but I will. http://blamescoble.com/permali... - Phil Crissman
@jared - brilliant :-) - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Is this the right assumption I answered a query just now. Or am I among the people who did not understand the change? "@beeebzzz This reply can not be seen by my followers who are not following you. If I understand it right" - Gunnar Engblom
Seth Blank
Seth Blank
Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings - http://whitneyhess.com/blog...
May 12 from Disqus - Comment - Share
"GetSatisfaction link to restore @ replies here: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter......" - Seth Blank
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