The emperor has no clothes. What I find most interesting in the denial stories is that people are sending tweets to the owners/originators of the service, thinking that will help. I'd rather see the efforts go to follow-up on the recent mainstream press that twitter's been getting. ABCNews and USAToday need a follow-up story, perhaps? - Linda Mills

concur - i'm now using hellotxt to post my status to identi.ca - twitter - facebook & friendfeed status is either native or via identi.ca (the only time i go back to twitter is for replies (which i see in ff via summize) & dm's which notify me via email - i still have lots of twitter only friends thus haven't fully abandoned it yet - mike "glemak" dunn

I think it is time to evangelize the alternatives and devangelize Twitter. This is now going to happen, the question is whether it happens cleanly and in a controlled manner or messy and in a clusterf*** panic. - Dave Slusher from twhirl

For some reason, twitter was the only 2.0 app I never registered for - not my style, but also a certain premonition that this was not going to last. - Bora Zivkovic

You're right, Dave. I just get all old-school when something like this happens. I only wish it were an easy task to budge people away from what they find familiar. I'm beginning to think that if all people care about is how the screen looks, they're not worth the follow, anyway. They're certainly not worth it if they can't see the value in in-line commenting! - Linda Mills

Bora, for the longest time I thought it was too trivial to bother with. When I started using it, I realized I was wrong about that. However, shortly after it became apparent that this interaction was too important to trust Twitter with. - Dave Slusher from twhirl

that's absolutely the right way to position it - too important to trust twitter with - right on... - mike "glemak" dunn

I posted this an hour ago and it is lighting up on FriendFeed. This might be the most like and comment density I've ever had. It's like on a grade school playground, once fists get thrown everyone gathers around in a big circle. - Dave Slusher from twhirl

"too important to trust twitter with" Thanks, I think I'm going to use that ;) - Jason Carreira

so annoyed with twitter cancelling my account... everyone move to identi.ca -> http://friendfeed.com/e... - andy brudtkuhl

"too important to trust twitter with" - I wish I could "Like" individual comments ;-) - Bora Zivkovic