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Robert Scoble posted a message
“Up early, cooking turkey. Happy Thanksgiving. How was I convinced to do this? Need coffee.”
Thursday at 7:40 am - Link
Happy Thanksgiving Robert! - Jim Connolly
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Have a great day Robert. Why no Qikking while preparing the turkey? - Craig Mische
Happy THANKS and GIVING Day - johnpiercy
Now that is a great thought. Do a qik of the turkey and have the audience decide on the ingredients. Turkey 2.0 - Arne Hulstein
You got talked into it 'cause you're a good guy. Well done. happy Thanksgiving. Don't overcook the darn thing ... - Chris Baskind
Happy Thanksgiving Sir - John D. Lemke via twhirl
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Dave Winer posted an entry on Scripting News
Is Twitter journalism?
Thursday at 7:28 am - Link
It sure is a news source. - Orli Yakuel
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I am reporting that Maryam is stuffing the turkey. Yes, it is journalism. - Robert Scoble
Hahaha, too funny. It's like a bird play by play. - Marcus Hamaker
Oh, stuff that Robert. ;-) (It is not on the #mumbay scale, but it is journalism) - Arne Hulstein
the true question is: What is journalism and how twitter can contribute to it - ouriel
Twitter is useful when an event is ongoing. It becomes noisy in the aftermath. - Paul
Journalism by definition is in the midst of such a profound shift in what it is that the question isn't really that interesting. I am just learning detail about Mubai from Twitter. I link to NYT or BBC or whatever, more often than not lately from Twitter. Everybody is different and that fact is more clear than ever now. Whatever works for you. - Mary Anne Davis
@Orli, it sure is. I mean, self-aggrandizing aside, I post my newsfeeds on it. - Terence Washington
According to MW there are many definitions for Journalism. The last entry correlates to Twitter, IMHO. *Writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest* Twitter by default, is a publishing and distribution channel. It "can be" a form of new journalism combined with an integrated wire service. Happy Thanksgiving! - Brian Solis
No, it's more an eyewitness or spreading rumors thing. Journalism is (or should be) are more profound thing, but it can't be that fast. - Michael Zehrer
What is journalism? The dictionary doesn't know: "the activity or profession of writing for newspapers or magazines or of broadcasting news on radio or television." Wikipedia says "Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating, formally employed by publications and broadcasters, for the benefit of a particular community of people.". If it is communicating to a group of people (broadcasting) it is. Most of us are a broadcaster, are we all journalists? - Wilbert
Maybe Twitter as a website is journalism. It is an open community based on peer-review. - Wilbert
+1 @Michael. It's more like source for journalism - firsthand accounts. Journalists usually report on events that happen to somebody else. Tweets are personal events/thoughts. - Jared B. Luther
The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in . . . & Written material of current interest or wide popular appeal. I think that the way many people use Twitter does hit that bar. - Joel Ordesky
It sure is more than a news source. It's citizen journalism. And most times, Citizen Journalism is most accurate and fast than traditional media. Period. - Apostolos Papadopoulos
I think Amy Gahran has some good insights into how it can be great tool for it --> http://www.contentious.com/200... ... I think it is an awesome resource but still not sure how to best use it. I am very much still exploring it but if everyone at SxSW for example hashtagged and tweeted I would think it surely is journalism. - John D. Lemke via twhirl
Journalism, as I see it, is analysis and deep insight. Twitter acts like a witness. No time for analysis just relaying the event, with some superficial observations perhaps but not the profound insight that time makes possible - Mahesh CR via twhirl
Twitter v Journalism is like data v information. I watched Twitter last night for the stream of data http://tinyurl.com/6b4wjj and I periodically checked the distillation of that data in Wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/5pbnde but I also read this morning's Washington Post article for the context and analysis http://tinyurl.com/6ya9cl . There's plenty of room for all three. - Timothy B. Taylor
No, it's not. It's stream-of-conciousness stuff. It's the difference between data and information. - Sean
Sean: that's bullshit. I can tell a pretty good story in 140 characters. - Robert Scoble
Michael: you have absolutely no idea what journalism is if that's what you believe. Journalism is the act of me telling you what is happening. No more, no less. I can do a LOT of journalism in 140 characters. - Robert Scoble
Robert, can you elaborate on how to tell a story in 140 characters? (In less than 140 characters, of course.) - Tom Landini
Tom: it's partly sunny in Half Moon Bay. That's a story. That's journalism. All in 140 characters. - Robert Scoble
Even better, downstairs Maryam is yelling at me to baste the turkey. :-) - Robert Scoble
It's bright and sunny this morning in Berkeley, temperature in the low 60s. This post is 109 characters long. - Dave Winer
My name is David Winer. This post is 57 characters long. - Dave Winer
I think this discussion is pointless. Stop the presses! This post is 88 characters long. - Dave Winer
I've never liked the term "story", gives me connotations of something made up. I know that's not true (sometimes ; ) ). I do think twitter is too limiting for indept analysis, but that's what links are for. Twitter can be used to give flash updates and track an event, but then so can anything that allows you to receive such nibbles of data. It's just another tool. - alphaxion
in a way; all the major news orgs have twitter feeds however, their posts lead to links of their online stories which are of course a lil more in depth: sometimes - sofarsoshawn
Robert and Dave: Those statements do tell me what is happening. And I guess that can be a basic form of journalism. But they don't tell me why I might want to pay attention to that. Maybe I was thinking more in the dramatic than the journalistic sense. Good discussion here. - Tom Landini
There goes Winer again, trying to make a point in a pointless discussion! - Robert Scoble
Tom: if I wanted you to pay attention I would have said "Free sex under partly cloudy Half Moon Bay skies." - Robert Scoble
I think the question is whether stuff on twitter can be "Good" journalism - Wilma Stoneflint
it's istant source of information which could lead to a big news! - Christian
Robert: No link? No video? - Tom Landini
Memo to Daily Print News Business: Surrender the breaking news beat and focus on analysis and perspective. - Eric Schwartzman
For an excellent analysis of this issue see "Overload!Journalism’s battle for relevance in an 
age of too much information" in the current issue of the Columbia Journalism Review http://tinyurl.com/6dxbmj - Timothy B. Taylor
microjournalism, sometimes. - susan mernit
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possible248 posted a message
“Does FriendFeed have a business model yet?”
Thursday at 7:49 am - Link
Yes. Everyone who asks whether they have a business model is required to put $20 into their PayPal account. - Robert Scoble
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That is the most brilliant business model I have heard of so far... - Arne Hulstein
I could pay a yearly fee for FriendFeed. After all I pay about 24 USD/year for flickr and I don't think I get out of it as much value as I get from FF. Which btw makes me think why am I spending that much for flickr.... - Davide D'Incau
Robert +100!! Link? I'd contribute for sure! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
Why is everyone afraid of the subscription model? Drew Curtis does okay with charging $50.00 a year for 'TotalFark.' - Mark VandenBerg
Davide, you'll have many more people willing to pay for Flickr and not to Friendfeed. It's just the nature of the type of service. - Amit Morson
no comment - you see, ff is "protected" - Allen Stern
I wonder how FF could be used as a bespoke installation inhouse.. Shame system management tools don't spool out RSS feeds, I could imagine a bespoke FF where you pull together all the dispirate management systems into a FF style system to allow for more verbose reporting and shitcan email alerts. Sadly smtp is easy and quick to implement. - alphaxion
@alphaxion: I think FF on the intranet would be great for software developers. Version control systems do pump out RSS feeds, as do Wikis and testing frameworks could be easily modified. - Andy Murdoch
I'm thinking network monitoring, backup systems, status monitors on things like exchange etc.. stuff that spool out a realtime state of health of IT infrastructure in emails and event logs. Aggregate them into an IT friendfeed system, away from prying eyes since it can be over https and require authentication to see.. - alphaxion
Amit, maybe because flickr is simpler to understand by a larger amount of people? But if FF like concepts go mainstream, then it is like paying for your newspaper subscription. - Davide D'Incau
I would definitely pay for the privilege of fooling around here. - Steven Perez
Or how 'bout the Craigslist model: charge only users in San Fran, LA and New York (wha? geo-discrimination perturbed? Talk to me when Hulu is unblocked for residents in Canada, among other places) </blowing steam> - Micah Wittman
lol Scoble. - Kamath ॐ
I like my Fark half-assed and free. I would pay for FriendFeed, however. - Lisa L. Seifert
You could use the DonationCoder model and just let the users pay what they want & can afford and let them feel as if the community truly belongs to them. Might even institute a microcredits system to make it easy to not only donate to the site, but to donate to each other as well...make those "likes" really mean something. ;-) - April Russo
wow, looks like i'm the first to simply say... "no". - Jeremy Toeman
Jeremy: you have to donate $40 if you say no. :-) - Robert Scoble
Admittedly, I don't think that I would actually pay for FriendFeed. An online community is hardly rare, and one can't beat the price of free. - possible248
@possible248 which is why I think they need to harness the technology, not the crowd. - alphaxion
free is the only way to go - Bob Robot
I would go with the winner of America's Next top model. Maybe FF could sponsor a Spokes Tweet competition? - todd
They just need a super model for advertising purposes. I like Todd's idea. - Jill, Superhero Librarian
Cryptic Allen, cryptic - Hutch Carpenter
me hutch? - Allen Stern
Now, I didn't say that I WANT to pay for FF. I just said that I would. If it ever came to that. Unless it could be replicated someplace else. For free. - Lisa L. Seifert
FriendFeed could easily be replicated. I mean, there are already other lifestreaming web applications out there, and it wouldn't take much to tweak the user interface into something FriendFeed style. - possible248
The Chinese and Facebook have already copied FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
No, I mean a completely replicated site with all of my same friends, history, etc. I'm being a brat. Don't pay any attention to me. I bring nothing to this conversation except for the sentiment that I adore FF enough to pay for it. - Lisa L. Seifert
Chinese already have that except for your friends. - Robert Scoble
Stop egging me on, Robert. *pbbbbbt* That's WHY I said it's NOT replicated. My friends or it's not the same. Now go eat dessert. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
here's the ff business model - in fact its already in place - scoble goes from blog to blog posting comments telling people how the conversation is already on friendfeed for the topic being discussed on the blog. :-P - Allen Stern
ScobleFeed®! ;) - Tyson Key
Love it, Allen! Truly made me lol. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
Not cryptic Allen, not cryptic ;-) - Hutch Carpenter
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Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader
Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble
May 30 at 5:54 am - Link
This is total bullshit. Why do I have 11,556 subscribers on FriendFeed, I'm FAR FAR FAR FAR more active on FriendFeed, and yet FriendFeed never has gone down on me? Also, Twitter went down at its first SXSW before I had a ton of followers there. Twitter has major problems, they still don't have a good engineering answer, and so they are blaming their most popular users. Great. We get the message. We'll go someplace where there's a good engineering team. You know, the guys who invented Gmail and Google Maps? They are the ones behind FriendFeed. See ya Twitter! - Robert Scoble
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Did you even read the dev post on Twitter by Alex Payne? He said that they have major architectural hurdles to get over. The reason FriendFeed works so much better than Twitter is because it was built from the beginning to do so. Twitter needs to rebuild after having already built an amazing and large community. I just don't get the venom and hate. :( - Nathaniel Payne
And again, Robert: Twitter didn't say one word about you. If they have, show me where. You're reading someone's headline, getting angry, and making a technical statement into something personal. - Ian Betteridge
Robert, you are to blame. If you did not hype twitter originally, then maybe we wouldn't have been there. Then you couldn't start conversations that people talked about on twitter. In reality, the "power user" problem talks more to their issues with the back end than anything else. - Rob Diana
Ian: they don't need to name me. I'm one of the most noisy users on Twitter and have one of the largest following and follower bases. They were talking very specifically about me and Venture Beat decided to have some fun. The whole thing is bull. They got $15 million in venture. The time for blame is long gone. They need to fix their problems. - Robert Scoble
@Ian Actually it was an indirect mention -- this is the quote from Twitter dev. Alex Payne: "The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when “popular” users - that is, users with large numbers of followers and people they’re following - perform a number of actions in rapid succession. This usually results in a number of big queries that pile up in our database(s). Not running scripts to follow thousands of users at a time would be a help, but that’s behavior we have to limit on our side." - Shey
Go Robert! - Mitchell Tsai
Robert: Yes, I know, I posted that for you below :) And that doesn't say they're blaming the users. It's saying "This is what happens". Read the comment in context (http://dev.twitter.com/2008/05...) and it's clear they're NOT blaming users for their architectural weaknesses. They describe it, openly, as "a square peg in a round hole". That's not blaming the users, is it? - Ian Betteridge
But to be fair, yes, Twitter has also acknowledged the fact that it was never built to get this big (from scratch) - Shey
Sprague, they are doing everything they can to take the focus off their own mistakes. They are clearly clueless to what's going on. If they weren't clueless, these problems would have been fixed months ago. Even if this isn't a direct snipe at Scoble, it's pointing the finger at their own community, which includes you, me and most of the people reading this. And it's not right. - Andrew Dobrow
Sprague: they should just fix their damn problems and stop blaming anyone. I would never never have blamed anyone for my problems. FastCompany is seeing scaling issues. We're not blaming our users, we're rebuilding our database servers, putting them on new hosting, etc, etc until we fix the problem. And if there's a problem we can't fix, we won't blame one set of users. We'll say "we didn't plan properly, or design properly, and we are seeing loads that are much higher than we can deal with, so wht we doing - Robert Scoble
From Dev/Twitter: "Twitter started as a one-day project to explore sharing status via SMS that rapidly took on a life of its own. That Twitter would eventually evolve into a messaging system in its own right wasn't conceptualized from the get-go." - "We interview constantly and have a talented recruiter bringing us exceptional candidates daily...We're currently exploring supplementing our team with consultants, and we've accepted strategic help from outside organizations who actually do have armies of geniuses. - Mitchell Tsai
Shey: >>Twitter has also acknowledged the fact that it was never built to get this big (from scratch) >> I did a video interview at Twitter about a year ago and heard that excuse back then. OK, that made sense back then, but now? It just doesn't ring true anymore. - Robert Scoble
Translation of Dev/Twitter: (1) We never had a scalable design. (2) We don't have the people that understand scalable design, and we're trying to find reliable consultants (too many fly-by-nights out there). --- I think they need to hire some people from Google Research, Microsoft Research, Research universities, or industry-types who've done big transactional systems (billions-trillions of transactions)....ahem...new CTO. Not just a VP Engineering type. - Mitchell Tsai
Too funny. - Andrew Baron
Andrew, read this: http://dev.twitter.com/2008/05.... Now tell me - is that or is it not a public admission of what's wrong with their architecture? - Ian Betteridge
The Google guys are too busy working on improving FriendFeed, I doubt they want to get involved in this Twitter trouble. - Andrew Dobrow
someone some time ago suggested if twitter asks 1000 developers to come and give a hand they'd be happy to do so, maybe even for free, I also think they're clueless, but I don't see them asking for help - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Dobromir: "Not asking for help" is a big difference between "A-people" and "B-people" in VC-speak. "B-people" are afraid to ask people better/smarter than them to help, usually because they fear a lack of control. It's not usually because they think they're better. They often fear the "help of others". - Mitchell Tsai
@Robert I totally agree. They should have known the system wasn't scalable then and shouldn't be surprised with what's happening now. - Shey
Ian, I know all about the post. I was advocating Twitter communication for the last few weeks before they just started communicating recently. Here is a quote from that post "we're more scalable than we were a year ago, but we're not yet reliably horizontally scalable" How can they say they're more scalable then they were a year ago? Other than that, that post served as a "were listening" message and a "yeah we have problems" post, yet they still divert to it not being as bad as "last year" which is crap! - Andrew Dobrow
this is all due to the 'PUSH' architecture which Twitter was built on, for an SMS service. Friendfeed is all PUBLISH (by you) then PULL (by your feed followers) just like a web site. - kosso via twhirl
Scoble: Dobromir has a good point. It's why VCs usually bet on the "team". It's tough to work with a Twitter-like group. Eventually Twitter can probably learn to build a better system, but will they? And will anyone still be using them then? - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell probably right, but isn't Twitter already out of control, people used to get back after a tough night I don't think that's the case anymore, the momentum is long gone - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I'm with Ian so much so I joined FF just to comment. I can see how it is possible to spin that post into "Scoble is killing Twitter" but I just don't see it that way. The post is explaining the issue, not atributing blame to an individual user or the community. - Michael Sadler
Andrew, they can easily be more scalable than a year ago: however, their growth may have outpaced their ability to replace parts of their architecture with better, more scalable systems. They could have found themselves in a "whack-a-mole" scenario: you fix one thing, which increases load on another, which then breaks. So you fix that, and it increases load elsewhere... etc. But either way, I don't think they're blaming the users, which is what's being claimed here. - Ian Betteridge
Sprague: BING BING BING BING. Twitter's team never has been very communicative on Twitter. FriendFeed's team is TONS better. - Robert Scoble
Ian, using that argument still doesn't make them more scalable at all. Being scalable calls for the proof that a site is ready for growth. They have proven that they are not ready for that at all. If Twitter had just made a reference to user cache's being backed-up, that would be understandable. But they made a specific allusion to "popular" users with "thousands" of followers who make rapid successive posts. - Andrew Dobrow
On another tangent, who says they can't blame the community - we don't own (i.e pay) for the service - we are just consumers. True, it might rub people up the wrong way, but it's their party and they can do what they want. Just like we can choose to use FF if Twitter is always going down, right? - Michael Sadler
Ian: Whack-a-mole is usually a symptom of incorrect architectures at the base of the system... - Mitchell Tsai
Michael, do you forget that without a community there is nowTwitter? We are all they have. In effect, we do run Twitter. We have more control than they do at the moment now that we know that Scoble could launch a rapid attack and bring the whole boat down to the ground. - Andrew Dobrow
Robert I don't understand your anger here. You just said on Twitter, while pointing to this article, "Twitter blames me [....] Screw you, Twitter". Twitter did not blame you - and even taking the stance that it was indirect, as you mention above, is still not blaming you. The article points to the fact that popular users cause their database to take big hits and that "It basically has to take its first architecture, which isn’t working, and re-build it on the fly while the service is still running.". - Scott O'Raw
Sprague: You've got it! When I'm building a company, I try to wait hands-and-foot on my big customers/users. If anything, it's the little guy who suffers if I'm strapped for time. Going after Scoble is STUPID business sense. Better would be "Scoble...would you like to join our improvement group? We'd really value your input (& pay you) comparing different systems because you've used so many. We'd like to know which systems have the best scalable architectures & what technologies they use." - Mitchell Tsai
...continuing from above: This, to me, points to Twitter realising that the architecture they built was insufficient to cope with how popular Twitter became. If anything it highlights the super-user as a symptom, not the cause. Perhaps though, all this is just a return to the linkbaiting Scoble of old? Incidentally, I had to split this comment into 2 as FF imposes a limit on the 'conversation' - hmmmm :S - Scott O'Raw
It's obvious Venturebeat wanted tons of traffic by naming Scoble even though the Twitter team did their best to explain what was happening without blaming anyone. In fact, if anything, they blame their own design. Good job MG Siegler, and Venturebeat. Aa cheap shot, but I'm sure it did what you wanted it to do - Alexander van Elsas
Andrew, I'm not saying that Twitter is scalable (and Mitchell is totally right about whack-a-mole). What I'm saying is that nothing they've said blames the users. It just describes the problems. - Ian Betteridge
I'm with Scoble that statement was a very poor choice. I don't get all of these "to be fair Twitter wasn't supposed to be this big" arguments. If Twitter was built to be a smaller service to begin with then they should have never let Scoble or anyone else follow and be followed by so many people - poor planning, poor execution and now to top it all off they are going to s**t on the very people who have been enthusiastically championing their service? Wrong choice. - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
Twitter does not know what they are doing, and when they need a scape goat they have Scoble. Stop blaming the users, Twitter. Find a solution instead. - Baard Overgaard Hansen
But the user should never have been put in the position to have control over whether the service is up or down. That's ridiculous. It's like a Wiki of stability. - Andrew Dobrow
Love the photo of Scoble on that article. :) - TranceMist
Andrew, yes, users should be able to do whatever the system lets them do. But what they seem to be saying is "Twitter wasn't really designed to do this. We need to fix it." - Ian Betteridge
I don't think Twitter was trying to blame Scoble. People were asking what they could do to help it was a problem they had to eventually resolve. Stop taking things out of contex and blowing them up. :-\ - Damon Cortesi via twhirl
Ian --the problem is that (and Scoble has pointed this out) they have had plenty of time to anticipate and fix this problem and seemingly ignored it. Now with a forced last ditch effort at "transparency" they are discussing it and hoping to buy time. I think their time has past. I am with Scoble (maybe not as angry as he is at this point though). They should just pack up their tent, give the $15 mill back and move on. The problems are too deep. Their general incompetence is too visible. - Brian Sullivan
any service hoping to grow needs to plan for scale at the outset, basic web architectural issue (whether 1.0 or 2.0 or beyond) - blaming outside services & their own users is the sign of a dying entity unfortunately - but remember the value of twitter is in the community it contains, which just needs to migrate away to something richer and more stable - ff seems like a nice place to land :) - mike "glemak" dunn
Andrew: Yep, I understand the community makes Twitter - without people like Scoble, Calacanis et al I wouldn't bother visiting Twitter. The point I'm making is that it's their choice - we haven't paid for the right to depend on certain levels of uptime and we don't have a right to demand it. All we can do is expect it, and if Twitter's service doesn't meet our expectations (because they don't have the infrastructure, architecture, skills or simply can't be bothered then we can go somewhere else. - Michael Sadler
Some meta-pointers for this discussion & my opinions here http://friendfeed.com/e/78dd84... - Mitchell Tsai
You could also say, "Leo Laporte and Chris Pirillo are killing Twitter". I'm reminded of one of Jeff Atwoods posts that said "All bugs are your fault, no matter what is causing them." http://www.codinghorror.com/bl... - Scott Koon
I agree with Scoble. Instead of blaming ANY user, be it specifically or in general, they should apologize, maybe throw a bone to the power users who make it popular, and get their shit together. Once they have a stable architecture and service, they could take the next step and figure out a way to make money. What they are doing now is akin to a brick and mortar retailer telling hordes of customers to go away because the weight is cracking the foundation. - JR Huestis
Jesus, there is just no love here. Let's put aside the scalability issue for one moment. ROBERT: TWITTER DID NOT BLAME YOU. Why take this so personally and unleash a shitstorm? Just because you're not happy with their perceived lack of responsiveness? They built an app, probably for fun. it took off. You used them, you liked them, you promoted them. They're trying to catch up. Probably trying like hell. Everyone is so damned ready to do a pile-on - what's that say about us? Chill out everyone. - Eric Weaver
Scoble is too popular for twitter. : ) - Alex Soto
Even if power users like Scoble are part of the problem, you dont blame them, you figure out how to solve it, Its an incredibly dumb move to blame anything except themselves, never mind the people who make it popular. - Scott Purdie
Twitter didn't blame anyone. I don't see how on earth you could infer that from that post on the twitter blog. - Clint Ecker
Twitter needs to be left to die while people move onto something better. If my gmail account was regularly down (regardless of whether it's because of poor planning or because of people like Scoble) then I'd move on, get a new email address somewhere else and call it a day. In my eyes an email address is something that should be more long term and solid than whether you use twitter, jaiku or pownce. Seems it should be an easy switch?? - Bob via Alert Thingy
Cmon guys READ THE POSTS. VENTURE BEAT introduced the blame on Scoble, just traffic and link bait, and looking at this discussion they did a GREAT job on it. Just a cheap shot, nothing more. If anything this shows that Friendfeed is not only used for good in-depth discussions but it is also a forum for anyone that wants to add an opinion, even if it is totally besides reality. - Alexander van Elsas
This is the way I see it guys. Whenever I see the term "Heavy Twitter user" or "Twitter power user", Robert Scoble's smiling face and creepy laugh appears. Robert is THE Twitter power user. So whether Venture Beat mentioned Scoble or not, he would be part of that list of users Twitter mentioned. As a matter of fact he would be at the top of the list. http://www.twitterholic.com/tw... He performs the most updates out of the top Twitter users which is what they complained about. - Bwana
Rule #1 of business survival. Don't piss off Scoble. He has too many people that listen to him, because he knows what he is talking about. Bret Taylor and team are amazing. With only 8 employees (last time I heard recently) and less than a year old, they are outperforming Twitter (not that hard right now) and perhaps even Facebook. I like the expression that "money flows to where it is well treated". The same is true with customers. - Alex Hammer
Friendfeed needs a LIKE click for comments -- I would like to LIKE Scoble's first comment in this thread. - Sean McBride
They never expressed blame-- they expressed that the majority of the strain was due to tweeting of users with lots of followers... It's a statement of architectural failure on their part. To make the fantastic leap that somehow that means they're saying it's power users' FAULT seems bizarre. Somewhere a VentureBeat editor is cackling with glee that you rose to the bait. - Tony Wright
It is simply shocking that they would blame there power users. If you cannot build a system to scale they should have limited how many people you can follow ridiculous - Todd Cochrane
twitter has not only shown their ineptitude with IT management they've now gone a step further and shown their ineptitude with Customer Service appreciation! wow... ultra lame and low brow tactics...not the way to treat your community of early adopters who helped build the fame and fun around your product. what dopes! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
maybe this is twitter's new strategy - dump the heavy cargo (aka popular users like Scoble) out of the sinking twitter ship and then get more water out...keep trying to plug up holes with bubble gum! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
The VC guys should have given the 15 mil to me - Charlie Anzman
Go to Jaiku! - Andrew Ruess
Robert, its becoming more and more apparent that the management at twitter has no clue how to control a service, and instead of admitting they need help, they continue to give run-arounds and hope people blindly follow. No good company should ever blame their problems on the users. plain and simple - BCK
Come on Robert, 12,318 tweets couldn't get it down, could it? I have almost done 12K and I know many Dutchies who are over 20K @erwblo is way over 25K. So, who did it then? ;-) (Lets get into consipracies here...) - Arne Hulstein
http://xrl.us/bmazc tweets totally f#(%ed twitter - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Come ON already, it's PR. You know how you change the word 'problem' to 'opportunity' or 'challenge'? Yeah, they blamed users, but did so in that retarded passive aggressive 'say the opposite' way. Just like the more they say 'open and transparent' the more I think it's full of shit. It's not fooling anyone anymore. - Eric Rice
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