To play Twitter out? - Andrew Dobrow

seems like we'll have to watch this video every day now... twitter, please, start working again! - Benedikt Koehler

we need an RSS border patrol for all social networks http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Noah David Simon

Wait! Twitter was back up? I keep missing it. - ha3rvey (big appetite)

Yes, Twitter was up for a bit, but I couldn't use it because it was too slow. - Morton Fox

This is getting past ridiculous; we wouldn't have sat still for such an appalling record of availability by another service. So, Dave, how about that distributed Twitter architecture you proposed, was there any interest to help set it up? - Asteris Masouras

Asteris -- yes there was interest, but generally the people with the products are scared of pissing Twitter off. This I don't understand -- I think the Twitter folk would welcome a bit of redundancy. Everything they've said publicly and done with the Twitter API indicates that they believe federation is in their future, but mostly the tech industry is scared. Where are the swashbucklers? Where's the adventure in venture capital? :-) - Dave Winer

What Dave Winer said! Rock on, adventurers - Randal Leeb-du Toit

I'll believe that Twitter Inc. hearts federation when I see them take definite steps in that direction. If Microsoft & Yahoo are anything to go by, corps that live & die by the mass adoption of their services are anything but cool with federating & open standards. Only their users can keep them on the straight & narrow, or provide scaffolding for alternatives. As to your quasi-rhetorical questions about the guts of the industry, I wonder too :-) - Asteris Masouras

F@#k it, we'll do it live! - Vince DeGeorge

brilliant vince! - Morgan from twhirl

This video never gets old. - Michelle Martinez

There hasn't been adventure in venture capital for twenty years. - Francine Hardaway

are there *still* no words there???! - Alex von Halem

I love that video, I mgiht make that my homepage - acedanger from twhirl

Sigh. Twitter needs a Twifibrillator. - Joe D'Andrea