BTW, the first time it checked Twitter was down. :-( - Dave Winer

it's is down right now. second time in the day - Gilbert Corrales from twhirl

cool idea Dave! I was thinking of doing that... love to see it later when you're ready to release it! Thx! - Susan Beebe

Ooops, it was down the second time it checked too. (It checks every 10 minutes.) - Dave Winer

Up/Down isnt the entire issue that should be tracked. Even when it's up, it's seldom working completely. - Christopher Dickens

Is there a friendfeed room where everyone can go to when Twitter is down? Dave maybe you could make your app into a widget that could be posted in that room so everyone would have a place to go to and pseudo twitter until the widget says Twitter is up again. Or maybe we should just create a room called Twitter and just go there to Twitter? - Jon Erickson

Dave: admire your tenacity, but isn't the client making it obvious? :) - Todd Jordan

Jon, that's the key thing to decentralizing -- having an agreed-to place that has enough features to be useful. That's what I've been trying to get the tools-makers to support, with no luck so far. If you want this, send an email to the people who make the clients, and suggest they have a fallback place to route your twits when Twitter is down. The problem is solvable if there is a will to solve it, imho. Here's a list of popular clients assembled by Marhsall Kirkpatrick at RWW. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Dave Winer

I found a way to help twitter. http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Erhan Erdogan

Aaron, come on, where did I say it was innovative. Sighhhh. - Dave Winer

Okay I'll play along -- go fuck yourself. :-) - Dave Winer

Dave, but trying to convince a pool of third party developers who are not earning any fees from their work right now to add features is not necessarily going to happen, where is the motivation, they need someone to create the location and to give them the api/web services. I really think that if Twitter is architecturally flawed, then the key should be identify the right place and establish the connectivity. Then you can get the third party tools developers to link to it, first when Twitter is down. - Jon Erickson

This sort of reminds me of http://www.abevigoda.com/ which is a constant check on whether Abe Vigoda is still alive or not. Currently, he's alive. - Joey Gibson

Jon, I understand. I'd be willing to pay part of the expense of hosting the files, I've said this before. I think Twitter could kick in some of the money too, they actually have a business reason to do it. - Dave Winer

I love it when code is used artistically and for social statements like this. Its one of the main reasons why the internet is so rich. - Andrew Baron

if I had the time and obj-c chops, I'd write a little iPhone tray app that kept twitter's status in the top status bar - Brett Kelly

Thanks Andrew. That removes some of the sting of being called an idiot. :-) - Dave Winer

Oy. I'm going to have a drink now. (To everyone else this is why every app should have a block command. It may be Twitter's biggest innovation.) - Dave Winer

Nerd fight! *eats popcorn* - Brett Kelly

If we must talk about Twitter being down - how about what to do while it is - http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroa... - Todd Jordan

adding the inability to block someone on FF to my list of 'unreadable grey text' and 'no DMs' for things which FF needs to fix to make me hooked. - Lucretia Pruitt

Hug it Out Bitches! - Erin @queenofspain

will you leave Jack Burton alone ,.. ? - hisherness

where is prokofy when you need her - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

prokofy is working on defending me when I do some child pornography art on friendfeed. that was a joke. really... it was a joke. I swear. no really. I'm... I'm sorry.... augh! - Noah David Simon