I need serious help with FF. For an idiot like me this isn't so intuitive really. Help section is nice but I need someone to hold my hand ..bleeech. Don't get me wrong I am sorry I was reluctant to try FF before
- cheapsuits
I blame Scoble. It's always his fault :-)
- Keith Barrett
but how am I going to tell the world I need a cup of tea???? nooooooo
- Rachel Clarke
Giorgio - I'm seeing some activity through the Twitter API, too (that's what TweetDeck uses, I believe); not a lot, but some
- Robert J Taylor
I thought it was just my connection. ;-) I'm also having problems with Facebook today.
- Timothy Federwitz
yeah, it seems the web interface is down but the api is working..
- Giorgio
I think the social media experts are going to spend the next hour talking about Twitter being down
- Keith Barrett
Scoble's followers where the glue keeping Twitter together! now that he's 'pulled the pin' and released them all, Twitter has fallen down and can't get up.
- MikeAmundsen
Seems to me like some sort of an (DDoS) attack on Twitter and Facebook.
- Jari Hakkarainen
I'm so lost this morning without my cup-o-Twitter
- frank barry
You broke it Bob! All this follow/unfollow madness.
- ZuDfunck
They'll comment on it, much like I just did.
- Marlin Forbes
Yiorgas: read a book for a change? I do that anyway, but only about 10/month. need more twitter time to balance it out
- Rachel Clarke
Facebook is copying twitter too closely...even to going down at the same time
- Robert Littlejohn
Does Twitter have what it takes to be a big player? We've been working with their API on a project and every time there is something out of whack. Anyone else have the same issues?
- Chris Nadeau
twitter is really down, I think twitter itself should have a site that tweets when it's down :)
- Ata İsmet Özçelik
They will use FF to inform their friend that twitter is down
- Didier Girard
This is very interesting that it is impacting more than one social network ... can't even speculate what the cause is yet. Not getting much work done today I'm afraid, going to be following these conversations..
- Joe Magennis
I haven't been on twitter for days. I guess I picked the wrong morning to jump back in.
- Jeff Stannard
Robert: The most important question>> How many new sign-ups for FF today?
- K.N. Ajit Narayan
GUILTY ! I have had a FF account for awhile just never used it--
- cheapsuits
What the celebrities like you do. Talk about it on Twitter.
- Tad Chef
This actually made me laugh out loud, because I was thinking the same thing!
- Dan
This kind of reminds me of a line from Office Space: "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
- Jari Hakkarainen
Could this mean that CNBC was right??? Nooooooooooo!
- Travis Koger
I was planning to unfollow a bunch of followers due to Twitter's follow limit rule kicking in at the ~#2000 user level. I have to wait with that then... ;)
- Martin Lindeskog
Twitter being down is a a relief to me this morning! Now I can stay OFF it rather than fitting it into every 30 second change of task! n
- Arleen Anderson
at this rate they will have to start sending out junk mail via the post office again... oh the humanity
- Terry Bruce
I feel like we are all stranded on a tropical Island together
- Jeff Wiant
was afraid for a moment that out IT blocked all social networks or something horrible like that. Thank god FF came back up quickly. This might have gotten me to use FF more. I often neglect it.
- Ryan Cummins
Wondered why tweetdeck wasn't loading anything. actually got some programming work done. lol
- Justin Long
twits will move, but only until twitter is back online, then there will be a mass exodus. Remember during all of the 2007/2008 fail whales users still flocked back to it regardless.
- Travis Koger
Twitter, Facebook, now Posterous... 4chan organize an attack or something?
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
took inordinate amount of time to get into ff today as well
- A Zmaj
Hmmm DoS attack...someone wanting a ransom from Twitter?
- Mike Gargano
Guess they'll have to either pick up the phone or do some work :)
- Graham Bunting
Can someone with 94k followers really mock the the celebs and experts devoid of Twitter?
- Augie Ray
Hey, no bogus follow messages in my inbox for a while! ;-)
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
This is teaching us something about the framework of the current Internet traffic patterns. We're watching cascade scale problems from one major Internet program going down.
- Melanie Reed
Facebook is giving up the ol', "Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/inline_comments.php': A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet" message now.
- 3Cinteractive, L.L.C.
from twhirl
I think this is bigger than Twitter and FB... I think it's some interweb routes or something. I had a VoIP call going with a party local to me and two across the country and I lost the two across the country, but maintained the local party. And others are commenting on other sites showing signs of outages.
- Timothy Federwitz
from Alert Thingy
Yeah, had all the characteristics of a DDoS attack. What do perpetrators of such attacks get from doing that, I've never understood.
- Jari Hakkarainen
The real bummer for me is, now I actually have to listen to the radio to get the word of the day!
- Travis Owen
is twitter connected with FB or Friendfeed? I am having page errors with both, Ajax issues with FB intermittently , I am no tech geek so I have no clue whats up and come here to learn
- lisa coultrup
Maybe Ev's interview on the BBC last night didn't go down well with the Iranians!
- Andrew
from iPod
Tracing route to twitter.com [168.143.162.100] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 172.16.1.1 2 25 ms 29 ms 28 ms lo1.br57.fra.de.hansenet.net [213.191.64.45] 3 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms ae1-252.prju01.fra.de.hansenet.net [62.109.64.13 7] 4 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms fra32-hansenet-3.fra.seabone.net [89.221.34.61] 5 120 ms 119 ms 195 ms ash1-new50-racc1.ash.seabone.net [195.22.206.2] 6 125 ms...
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- Zalt Woo
Ev coming onto the BBC last night and saying that they were asked by the US Goverment to keep Twitter up and running during the Iranian protests cannot have gone down well in Tehran!
- Andrew
from iPod
DoS on large portions of the internet. Is this 4Chan... Chinese... N. Korea... durkadurkastan...
- Ryan Cummins
now having trouble getting to Friendfeed
- Justin Long
look, few days ago Clinton back home with two imprisoned american journalists from North Korea and today Korea is attacking twitter? it is revenge)))
- obolonskyi
maybe Robert's great unFollowing crashed the servers... no loss! Go FF
- Jay Shapiro
from BuddyFeed
As I said, I predict a baby-boom in 9 months... wait and see!
- Jordi Soler
SEO Experts can analyze their charts, celebrities and wannabe's can entertain us with video (maybe some cool Twitter Whore like stuff) , and social media experts can quickly become Fail Whale Experts.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
@Lee Provost don't you thing you're going to be a little apocaliptic ? :-)
- Filippo Ronco
Twitter downing has to be a lesson for all of us. if sometimes gmail or even google will be down. what we all are going to do in that situation???
- obolonskyi
@Filippo i've been suprised many times that reality is often more wacked up than the conspiracy theories of geeks :-p
- Lee Provoost
I'm hoping the social media experts go away and do something useful.
- Parvez Halim
@Jordi LOL, considering that there are a vast amount of single male computer geeks out there in the twitter community, baby boom effect might be negligible :-D
- Lee Provoost
what is bad here? here doesnt exist reply button =(
- obolonskyi
The realtime updates of the comments is great. FF rulez. Would be better though to have the comment link not on top
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
@Lee single male computer geeks - LOL))
- obolonskyi
AAANND.. it's back. At least for a moment I guess..
- Alex Schleber
AAANND it's GONE! ..Again. At least I managed to send out a quick FriendFeed SOS, as in: "Still think you shouldn't have all of your favorite tweeps in a "backup system" on FriendFeed? Join here: www.friendfeed.com/alexschleber "
- Alex Schleber
Either collapse or back to use their phones in voice only mode, do some shopping, get eye to eye contact ... Blame god, and then. Give a serious try on FF ;p
- Marco ILLESCAS
from iPhone
They will still be able to Tweet to themselves - not sure if they will realize it is down until it comes back up.
- Phil Harrison
What will the blackhat SEO experts, the SM spammers, and the social media experts do during a widespread outage? The answer is obvious: While sitting out the crisis they're fine-tuning their methodology. Seriously, your question offends me. There's a gazillion of SEO experts out there who do not abuse social media.
- Sebastian
Sebastian there can't be a gazillion SEO experts! What's 10,000 keywords times 20?? (and that's being generous!)
- Arleen Anderson
Would a social media expert consider it to be a crisis? If they rely so heavily on just one or two tools that it's enough to throw them into a tizzy, their expert status would seem to me to be ... questionable, at best.
- Gord McLeod
Arleen, 10,000 keyword phrases times 20 is a tiny fraction of the search terms that are worth optimizing for. Think of the long tail. Also, consider lots of webmasters and even publishers / site owners / bloggers / Web developers ... SEO experts who are able to optimize their stuff quite successfully but don't sell or publish their expertise. Many of them, and even many SEO consultants, do make sensible use of social media, as plain users.
- Sebastian
Gord, in a social media spammer's book 2 hours of outage, IOW 2 hours w/o sales from sneakily distributed links to questionable sales pitches, can sum up to way more than a good day's beer money. ;) However, "crisis" might be a term too strong for this potential loss.
- Sebastian
Arleen: yes, reading this is fun. Sebastien SEO types are so easy to wind up. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Gotta love it... @RobCairns says "come to Friend Feed? Not" and then his page shows ONE POST from Twitter in the past 18 hours! And that one talks about how Twitter seems to be slowing down again! (Sorry Rob, but that's just too good to let pass!)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Robert, admit it, you broke Twitter by massively unfollowing people. The DDoS attack reports have just been a ruse to cover up the fact that you were the backbone of Twitter all this time.
- Louis Trapani
Keep running into the wall a few times then find alternate outlets such as ff, linkedIn, etc...
- Kirsten Mitchell
from iPhone
Looks like the devious plan to move everyone to FF is working well. LOL :)
- Geer
Ha! The whole Facebook Twitter slowdown may have been just people clicking on spam (not a DDoS botnet). How funny! Manual DDoS. See Bill Woodcock's theory at CNet, AP, SF Gate, and The Register http://ff.im/6gLmO
- Mitchell Tsai
There you go again implying the only ones that use twitter is SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts - This is definitely SPIN. Perhaps you should join CNN also LOL
- RetiredTeacherD
Ironic, given your status as a celebrity social media expert who constantly spams about bots... :-P
- David Kettler
Now they'll have time to shower and do their laundry!
- Ron Hagenhoff
I don't think he deserved to be punched.
- Jess Lee
He was tossing slurs around - that's punchable.
- Matthew DeVries
He was tossing slurs around ON TAPE. And in print. A harmless blackeye does more to teach the offenders a lesson, and is less expensive than a law suit. There's not enough of that any more.
- Matthew DeVries
Ok, I'm looking to raise $2000 for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation in honour of my beautiful mother who is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Her hair fell out out last week, which has been hard on her. In solidarity, I'm shaving my head, and I have a goal to raise $2000AUD by the end of June. Go here:...
Question- should I just have it buzzed, or go the whole hog and have it razored clean?
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
I think if you are buzzing it down, you may as well get it shaved too, if only to feel that smoothness for a day. In three or four it will be close buzzed length again.
- Michael W. May
Quick, close the vaults! Mickey's copyright term is about to expire again!
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Yeah, Arthur from Sword & The Stone is too closely animated the same as Mowgli in The Jungle Book. Sister & I caught this back in the day :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
pretty good editing. i had no idea it was this rampant
- Cee Bee
Two bankable photos!! My family would drag me into a store for one today if they saw it. I would go too, so I'm hoarding the photos to myself:)
- Roney Smith
Cute! Btw, 10.5 dog years per human year for the first 2 years, then 4 dog years per human year for each year after. So he's 29 years old in dog years. ;)
- Canada's Web Shop
Such a sweet, sweet baby. Many happy returns!
- Mlibrarianus
We got him from a breeder and the breeder are ex-Cruft judges and winners. So you can't get much better than that. Wonderful dog! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
The breeder actually told us later that if they had a choice of which one to keep and take to shows, etc. it would have been Kaz! So I must have a good taste. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
My dog is 16.5 years old! OUCH! :) Happy birthday, Kaz!
- Dawn
#10: "What They'll Say: Hi there! Long time no see! Just over here in Liverpool and killing time before the Premier League match - downing a few pints, you know? - and spotted you on the internet. I might have found you earlier, but there's no internet in South America (at least, not worth using ;) and the net cafes were too expensive in Japan. I'm moving around a fair bit at the...
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- Mona Nomura
I wish I could repeatedly hit the "like" button.....
- George Smith
I've read nothing more true today than this.
- Shawn Farner
"Unfortunately, people from your past are looking for you. People you had hoped would stay forgotten. And your internet listing has made it very easy for them to find you.
- jfayel
I actually think that looks OK, might have to try it out.......
- Iain Baker
I must admit, I am tempted, but the thought of how long I would need to spend on the elliptical machine to work that off is keeping my taste buds at bay.
- Aaron Krug
That does look like something I'd try once.
- ronin
I can beat that. Went to lunch with a friend who had a deep-fried oyster po' boy. The whole sandwich was deep-friend. Not the oysters.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I'm sorry, I'm laughed and threw up a little in my mouth all at the same time.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
You know, I usually like to think I agree with the general platforms of Republican foreign policy (Reagan-style), but we have this video clearly demonstrating Palin BS'ing her way through something when she should simply say, "I am stronger on domestic issues than I am on foreign policy."
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
A 10 year old could do a better interview... Hell, a 10 year old could probably be a better vice-president than her too!
- Michael Forian
Where are our usual conservative buddies who ought to be here defending her against our horribly uninformed liberal biases?
- Chrimmus Tad
No wonder they don't let her do interviews. Wow, dude. You could have posted this and said it was a clip from SNL featuring Tina Fey and I would not have been able to tell the diff.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Ya know, I can almost guarantee 100% that her intended audience is eating this shit UP! I bet they're loving every stupid word out of her mouth. "She's so real! It's so refreshing to hear a real person up there. She sounds just like me or one of my friends." etc etc etc *barf*
- Chrimmus Tad
@Tad - hahahahah! So all their friends are ignorant too, huh?
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Yeah, probably Lindsay. I'd guess people who never challenge their reality tunnels.
- Chrimmus Tad
@Tad actually I don't see much conservative conversation on FF. It tends to be very liberal (and sometimes quite echochambery) at least by the group of people I see.
- Berial
i read this an hour ago and LMFAO, and hearing it, just like yesterday is actually dumber than reading it. and i'm willing to bet my house AND kids that when 'putin rears his head' to fly to america, he doesn't stop in fucking anchorage first.
- Admiral Anika
Brian, we do have our conservative friends, though. They're usually around to defend McCain and were cheering on Palin at the beginning...
- Chrimmus Tad
brian, there are a couple of conservative folks here who rush to the defense of mccain-palin or threads like this...
- tiffany
I'm sorry for my naivety here but is this real or SNL? She *can't* be serious
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I cannot believe SHE IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO USE THIS AS EXPERIENCE. Like it means something! I'm in close proximity to my Spanish book every single day and I am HORRIBLE at speaking the language. I sit in a class every day where people speak the language and I am still HORRIBLE at it. What a freaking joke.
- Shawn Farner
I grew up in Brooklyn, and lived in an apt built on the grounds of the old Ebbets Field. So by this logic, living 27 stories above 3rd base, I should have had a career in the Major leagues!
- Lorraine Ball
Man, I could've avoided law school altogether if I just waited til I moved to my current house. I have a courthouse within view. If that's all I needed for the requisite legal experience, I definitely would have skipped law school.
- Rob Reed
I grew up near the Mexico border. I mean, I was close and I don't speak Spanish but I have experience too. I am going to run for public office now. What an idiot. do people believe this crap? Oh wait..she is a "vagina American" I have to vote for her.
- Anna Lynn M.
well, some people don't have maps, like, such as, the Iraq.
- Jennifer Boutell
I just hope you are not electing someone like this...AGAIN.
- Alejandro
OMFG I've figured it out... Finally! Do you know who she reminds me of... the Principle from South Park
- Johnny Worthington
I lived about 5 blocks from the Pentagon, what does that make *me* qualified for?
- AJ Kohn
@Just a Tad.. you are right, her fans think this makes sense, so the message is you better be up early on election day. In Indy last year, we made the mistake of thinking the mayor was a shoe in, since his opponent was an idiot, who never expected to win.. and we all stayed home, and now our mayor is an Idiot, with no plans for the city, because he never expected to win.
- Lorraine Ball
based on this and some other clips from that interview I think Palin may actually be dumber than G W. regardless of the border placement, has she ever actually been to Russia or Canada? talked to anyone from either country?
- Jon Price
we are totally fncked if people vote republican this November. I watched her Charlie Gibson interview and this Katie Couric interview and I feel like someone is playing a huge joke on us.
- Paulo Elias
from twhirl
This chick is getting on my nerves bad! Soccer Mom trying to play US Vice President is a complete joke
- Susan Beebe
Tad, I'm conservative by many standards, but I vote based on qualifications, not party line. You really can't defend her on this one issue. There are issues I do agree with her on, but there are those I do not.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Let's just admit it that we like drama; this election cycle has been full of it. While it's natural to be worried--especially with the inevitable October surprise--this election will be a landslide victory for Obama. Anything short of a landslide will boil my blood and cast doubts of integrity upon my neighbor. Come to think of it, my neighbor is a blowhead. Crap.
- Blake N. Cooper
Finally...it works now. That was excellent! It's like McCain told him he had to wash his hair and couldn't make the show..then was caught out at the bar...hilarious!
- Anna Lynn M.
ROFL. Go to about minute 3 where he recommends that Palin takes over the campaign during this "crisis" and minute 6 where he stops at CBS for a TV interview on his "emergency" trip to the airport.
- scott willeke
That's why we all wanted Letterman to win "The Late Shift."
- Bryan R. Adams
Ouch. But he was right. And to be honest, Letterman hasn't been funny in a long time but it's good to see he's still got some fight left in him.
- R. Alexander Spoerer
Michael Gartenberg told me a fun quote a while ago: the cemeteries are full of people who thought they couldn't be replaced.
- Robert Scoble
Wish someone had told me there were symptoms of an *approaching* breakdown before I had my first one. Or the second. Or the third. Still, I know now, eh? :-)
- Slappy Line
@Robert - I heard a similar one, only replace "cemetaries" with "welfare queue" (Dole queue, here in the UK)
- Slappy Line
I don't think so...but then again it depends on how you define monetize. :-) I mean...R. Scoble has essentially done his own monetization on Twitter/FriendFeed. He has created a somewhat targeted tech audience and there is a marketing value to it because of the sheer volume of followers.
- Seagate
Toyota’s iconic Prius hyrbrid is about to make a symbolic leap forward: the next generation will reportedly feature solar panels on the roof.
- Chris Baskind
Yes, that's a concept photo. The rendering you've seen elsewhere -- which is also conjectural -- is protected by copyright.
- Chris Baskind
I will buy the next gen prius as soon as they come out and are available at list price. It's still VERY tough to find a 2008 prius at list. Most places charge and extra 2k-6k. It is possible though.
- Chrimmus Tad
how will it do in a a serious accident?
- Josh Haley
It's a Toyota...it will do what it has to do in an accident
- Alex Scoble
@josh haley if it's anything like my Prius was, it'll get totalled, but the driver will be completely unharmed - not even bruised. Man, I miss my Prius. :(
- Nine
I'd have to poke my head out of the roof to fit in that car.
- richrecruiter
@TheNinth - I would have guessed totaled, but glad no injury
- Josh Haley