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Joe Magennis
Re: Cards from the Diamond - http://baseballisms.com/charlie...
"Paul .. I obviously put Burt into this slot for you! It was great to have you on to talk baseball and about your book. I think it turned out great. We have to do it again! As we say all the time around here .. Hit it Hard Somewhere! Joe" - Joe Magennis
Scott Jangro
Watch yourself Ovechkin. I sense a fight in period three. #bruins - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Watch yourself Ovechkin. I sense a fight in period three. #bruins
Damn man .. are you sitting inside or outside the glass? - Joe Magennis
Thomas Whitley
I'm also assuming that if I don't get a Wave invite from Google then @samharrelson will invite me if he's given invites.
Hey wait a minute ... that's what I was going to do! ;-) - Joe Magennis
Robert Scoble
RT @TechCrunch: Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk'd Us http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... by @arrington Hahah! Fax feature indeed!
Ok .. so it's funny all by itself, but then for the functionality to actually work makes it one louder. - Joe Magennis
There's probably someone getting notified of log messages and faxing it by hand. The logging infrastructure they have there is to die for. - Matt Mastracci
I think it's funny that they actually paid $1.50 for it :-) - Jesse Stay
That's so damn funny. Good times. - SAM
I'd bet they actually made it work through eFax, like the original post said. eFax does faxes via email, so it would be rather trivial to have it email the picture to them. - Otto
Joe Magennis
Re: Let’s Play Cover the Bases! - http://baseballisms.com/karen-c...
"Shawn ... I definitely don't want just Red Sox Nation here, so we'll be looking to get you on an episode soon too!" - Joe Magennis
Jim Kukral
I really enjoy selling more than doing the actual work. :)
Jim .. I'm the exact opposite and I talk about it all the time. I'm much better at working on projects than I am selling. It's a crappy position for an entrepreneur to be in, because you have to be selling all the time. So it's forced for me and projects can always be worked on ... - Joe Magennis
Neal Rohrbach
@joemagennis we're using Tweetdeck to co-tweet from the @ideaanglers account, I think that's what you're asking?
Neal .. I was invited to use a service http://cotweet.com/ ... as a way to have multiple parties use the same Twitter account. Looking it over and thinking about recommending to a client. Was wondering if you were using too. - Joe Magennis
MG Siegler
BOOM Facebook Acquires FriendFeed http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
NOOOOO!!!! - Kevin Mohr
This is a joke, right? Ha ha ha - LANjackal
say it ain't so!!!! - Joe Magennis
oh dear - Craig Eddy
I'm out of here! - Joshua Schnell
I guess this would explain Paul's ":)" earlier on, preceded by a complaint about lack of sleep - LANjackal
wat - Mark Trapp
Wait...no - Bwana ☠
blah - Jenny Morman
Wow - Rodfather
What?! - Jeff
This cant be good, I just started to understand friendfeed. - Jordan Patterson
Can this be true? - Kevin Whalen
Well, its an exit. Probably a good exit. - DGentry
nooooo - holly
Must be HUGE celebrations @microsoft, they're @facebook's biggest $ backer. Big win vs. @google - LANjackal
I'm going to need a few hours to soak this in - Bwana ☠
:'( - Ryan
Unbelievable, and yet believable. I guess the copycatting can stop now. - Kenley Neufeld
Oh no :( - Patrik Arwengrim
It's like 100k geeks screamed at once and then were suddenly silenced... - Jemm from fftogo
sigh - BCK
Well that came out of nowhere. Honestly, I don't like it if it's true. - Adam Reyher from Alert Thingy
Sad news. - Shannon
I'm so confused right now. - Harry Wolff
what a way to kill innovation. thanks Facebook. - Edgar Rodríguez
The number of 1/2 word comments is hilarious in and of itself. - JonathanJoseph
I'm gonna miss FF when it's gone, but I like the idea of FF's awesomeness bringing Facebook's UI along a bit. I wonder how much time Paul et al will owe to FB before we see them back on the market with a new product? - Daniel J. Pritchett
Wow - Mike Doeff from iPhone
This is nuts - Chris Saad
I guess all we can wait for now is another Facebook UI overhaul followed by a month of complaints followed by complacency again... - Harry Wolff
crazy news, what a great move for facebook, but what about us :( - sean percival
Until we hear from FF offically, I'm not trusting TC. - Kevin Whalen
Is it true? Paul? - Stephen Foskett
holy majoly - anna sauce
So that means Facebook now owns all of our aggregated content? - jcunwired
Did we just got sold down the river? - Willem (@wim66) ☠
Ok, so I wasn't dreaming - Bwana ☠
this is just one of those "bad dreams" like on the TV shows, right? - Al Degutis
You're kidding. Say it ain't so....... Light the pitchforks, we're matchng to the castle...... - Roberto Bonini
Wow! & I just tweeted abt FriendFeed being Next.Big.Thing. 5 minutes ago! Beginning of the end for Twitter! - Lawrence Liu
There goes the open web's alternative to the closed Facebook news feed heh - Chris Saad
How ironic. That tweet I ref'd didn't get submitted cuz bit.ly had "a problem accessing Twitter." Posted now at http://twitter.com/LLiu... - Lawrence Liu
Sam Harrelson
ha! Homer Simpson: "America is New York Yankees of countries. Powerful and respected until year 2000." @affiliatetip @jangro @joemagennis
This has to be one of the all time best Homer Simpson quotes.....Think I'll make a poster out of it - Joe Magennis
Sam Harrelson
37signals Blogged About My Post... Peak of My Blogging Career :) - http://samharrelson.me/37signa...
In this blog post, Sam Harrelson talks about why the Backpack Journal is "killer": via productblog.37signals.com Wow. *Geek blush* Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Sam Harrelson
nice... not just a link but full on excerpts - Joe Magennis from BuddyFeed
i know! proof positive that we should all move to Basecamp etc. - Sam Harrelson from IM
Scott Jangro
Stranger in a strange land. http://yfrog.com/11q2pj
Stranger in a strange land. http://yfrog.com/11q2pj
looks like you had a good bead on Reddicks shot pulled foul ... - Joe Magennis from BuddyFeed
Unfortunately that was the most exciting part of this game so far. - Scott Jangro from email
Scott Jangro
In the the bronx in red sox shirt and hat. Dead man walking. - http://snaps.jangro.com/in-the-...
In the the bronx in red sox shirt and hat. Dead man walking.
it's the only way to roll .. see if you can wash the accidental beer out of it before you put it back in your luggage tho... - Joe Magennis from BuddyFeed
I thought of that. I doused it in scotchguard before leaving. - Scott Jangro from email
Joe Magennis
Thinking about yesterday & at first thought I might not be spending whole lot of time on Twitter. Realized that's no solution. Still want to have conversations there, talking baseball, business, whatever.. I will just try to block noise. As always key is to find & participate in conversation. Solution is to search & use all platforms to the fullest
Yeah, agreed. You can't really just block out Twitter. I'm trying to use FriendFeed as a Twitter client as much as anything else since I've subscribed to folks streams that I really want to hear from. We'll see how that works. - Sam Harrelson from IM
right .. it's so easy to sort out the twitter noise by using Friendfeed, I think that will work. Then with threaded discussions it's easy to have a logical conversation. - Joe Magennis
yep. much cleaner than @'s and RT's. i've created a "Twitter Friends" room with the twitter feeds of folks I want to stay in touch with "over there" - Sam Harrelson from IM
well, i'm here... i've had this FF account since before i changed from hecticdmc to danielmclark on twitter, which was... a year ago maybe? anyway, i like the idea of using FF to block twitter noise. something i'll have to investigate. - Daniel M. Clark
only concern I have is that without the @ there may be a reply or comment within a thread that I miss .. not sure how to avoid that. I have full name searches & alerts but some things might just roll by without seeing. - Joe Magennis
yeah, there are definitely some things that get missed. you can always run Winer's script and get the RSS feeds of folks you really want to see everything from in Google Reader. I've been pruning that down myself just to have a failsafe. - Sam Harrelson from IM
Robert Scoble
Twitter is down. Oh, what will the SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts do?
Come to FF! - Simon Wicks
Give Friendfeed a shot? - Rubin Sfadj
Hang out on FF - Roberto Bonini
Hopefully they don't come to FriendFeed :) - Robert J Taylor
they will spam friendfeed instead? - Denis
They are so freeeking out. - SolidSmack
I couldn't tweet about it, so I told my wife instead. - Patrick Lightbody
I tried retweeting that. *sigh* - Andy McIlwain
Big ups to the FriendFeed massive! - Josette Torres
Call them to join friendfeed, and make - Madhav Tripathi
Hopefully FF won't get killed by the Tweeters flocking over here. - phil baumann
ok.. here ya go..twitter being down has forced me here. Haven;t tried FF yet so... - cheapsuits
just like ya possibly twiddle their thumbs... - Baba
I suspect the bots will rejoice.... - walidmREALTOR
Let's see where these so-called "social media experts" go to fill the void of Twitter. - Christian
I can't open twitzap.com - ybs
Can FF servers manage such a massive movement? - Samuel Goëta
*twitter their thumbs - Bryan Penczak
since bots supply at least 25% of Twitter traffic, should we feel the worst for them right now? - Kevin Norman
write a post about twitter being down as a threat to humanity, may be?:) - Nikos Anagnostou
Twitter down... can't post on Facebook,,. so it's FriendFeed! - carrotmadman6
So your're not responsible for that ? Strange... :-) - Enikao
lay on the floor and spin in circles - SolidSmack
Maybe the SocMedExperts will go back to Plurk since Scoble likes Friendfeed. :) - Jay Gilmore
thank God, now we can get back to work - E.P. Scott
if they are the experts they claim to be then they should be here! - Mark V. Fusco
Facebook seems frakked too. - Gregg Le Blanc
I get tweet trough tweetdeck... - Giorgio
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
Maybe read a book for a change? - Yiorgos Adamopoulos
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
Man imagine if this had happened on #followfriday... - Rob Paller
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
They'll use Identi.ca ;) - Nicholas James
No actually the blog: http://status.twitter.com/ ("We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.") - Patrick Mackaaij
Show up here I'm thinking. :-) - Dion Hinchcliffe
Huge exodus to FF! - akihito
We will start feeding friends and keeping up our identi.ca 's - JuneM
They're probably crying so loud right now that they can't do a thing ;-) - Caio Cesar
What's been the longest twitter outage on record thus far? - Dusty Edenfield
hmm at least they found a solution with a blog :) - Ata İsmet Özçelik
I don't understand why you maintain an account when you have such contempt for Twitter & those who use it. - Liz
they will cry in their soup - Bobby Griffith
holiday - Ronald
Well Robert, where will you go when they all come here? - Tokyo Dan from iPhone
it's back up. made ya look - Kevin Norman
Strangely, search.twitter.com is up. - Marlin Forbes
Tokyo: I already have a private group setup. Sort of like a bomb shelter in case the rats take over. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
i noticed that twitter is down... anyone know how facebook is ssOOO slow 2...???? - Sebastiaan van den Akker
Just noticed it... - k00pa
do not waste time and do their job :D - Roldano De Persio of FF
twitter outage and news of the PubSubHubbub feature in Google Reader (http://is.gd/24YvH) make FF look pretty good right now. - Dusty Edenfield
facebook too! i guess i'm going to have to do something like "get a life" which is abhorrent to me... ^_^ - Kayce Maisel
friendfeed is having some issues but for the most part is still up and going :) - (jeff)isageek
find another medium such as friendfeed ;). - rick
Roger, Mr. Scoble! - akihito
@Sebastian they connected somehow... ahhh scary :) - Dani Martínez
good. so not the only one with issues with FB.. wel atleast is FF is going strong.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker
what we all are going to do??? =) but if seriously i remember this video on youtube - trouble with twitter: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - obolonskyi
They will all sit in their chair and stare at their monitor! - Gabe Diaz
@Dani, who knows... the might merge or something... explain the strange twitter is pulling fb down 2.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker
Did Scoble bring Twitter and FB down as he unfollowed everyone ? winks -) - Del_
This is still up... even this FF tweet. http://search.twitter.com/search... - Johann Chiang
In the event that twitter goes down I tend to frequent FF more. - © b e e n s w a n k
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
...and who wins? FF great :) - Dani Martínez
Was just able to post to Facebook but took several tries. Wow. FF FTW! - Tom Guarriello
so!! - abdellah
The smart ones will go to FriendFeed ;) - Helene
The spammers should go to MySpace... - Dennis Bjørn Petersen
Tweeple will come to FriendFeed! - LauraLee Dooley
That's why I joined FF a while back. Then I found all the useful features- and the bonus is having Scoble here to show the way. - Brenda Young
No, the smart ones are ALREADY on FriendFeed :) - Susan Beebe
and? - abdellah
@obolonskyi nice. vid.. ROFL... never seen it before... - Sebastiaan van den Akker
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
haha lets get FF down also :D - Salim Sarımurat
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
FF FTW - Eran Even-Kesef
Is the Twitter bubble bursting? - Travis Tasset
Let's see how well Friendfeed handles this Twitter outage :) - René Silva
Re previous comment of mine, 'Nooooooo!' was for CNBC being right, not that twitter is dead. ;) - Travis Koger
life goes on - Eran Even-Kesef
Hey don't tell anyone about this FF thing, its our little secret - Jeff Wiant
Twitter better be back up by the time Rick Sanchez is on CNN this afternoon or he won't know what to talk about ;) - cjcubs
telnet 80 twitter.com ? - Gordon Joly
@gordon wont work - k00pa
FF was down for me for about 10 min just now. - Dusty Edenfield
Blogger's having some trouble as well - Crispin Heath
No address associated with nodename (twitter.com) - Gordon Joly
If friend feed ever gets as popular as twitter were will everyone go to to avoid the popular crowd? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Panic? - Dean Clark
@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack? - Michael Fierro
Panic? Aren't we all used to this already? :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
if this is the North Koreans with a coordinated attack I WILL laugh - cheapsuits
@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack? - Michael Fierro
Robert, please follow back 106,000 and everything will be ok))) joke =) - obolonskyi
I can not play 140mafia!!! This sucks sooooo bad :( - Sam Beckett
Twitter outage is causing issues with both facebook and friendfeed. I guess we know where everyone is going instead of twitter. - April Russo (app103)
facebook? no way :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
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
Let's all chat on Friendfeed - johnpiercy from iPhone
Nothing seems to work, I think it will be the Friend Feed greatest traffic boost ever - Jacob Kobi Gamliel
guys, is it Ddos attack? or smth like that? as I understand twitter is hosting somewhere and this datacenter is down. am i right? - obolonskyi
FriendFeed traffic is rocking now... - Jacob Kobi Gamliel
social media "experts" might need to actually find other work to do. - Luis Sandoval
thanks God, Youtube is working - obolonskyi
More info needed. Where is there an alternate feed to real time news? - SenderOK
seems unlikely I'll do anything productive in the interim - WarLord
Friendfeed is an excellent choice :) - Hunt from BuddyFeed
Hopefully they will move to FF :) - Martynas
it could be ff provocation - obolonskyi
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
friendfeed rules! - Kevin Dolan
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
Thank goodness FF is still working. :) - 3Cinteractive, L.L.C. from twhirl
Friendfeed + Facebook :) - Rafa Lacerda
From status.twitter.com: "Site is down 1 hour ago. We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly." - Martin Lindeskog
Having issues with Facebook as well as Twitter. Can sign into FB but unable to go to anyones profiles- process just hangs - outofmyarse
chinese attack? :) - Roldano De Persio of FF
Touché Robert, Touché - Jeff Woelker from twhirl
"We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly." from Twitter Status - Kurt Jarchow
North Koreans I tell ya.... - cheapsuits
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
Twitter is Down....panic..run.,,SOS! - Veetrag
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
What will they do? Use FriendFeed! - Chuck Huckaby
It's official. Twitter's problem is a DoS attack per twitter/status. - Roger Jennings
shhhh they'll come here - andy brudtkuhl
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
Status Blog says "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack." Mmmm... http://status.twitter.com/post... - akihito
Friendfeed it is then. - Aren Grimshaw
Now, It's up! - Martin Sliacky
Posterous isn't working properly either, at least for me. - Steven Melfi
http://status.twitter.com/post... We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. - Zalt Woo
What does DoS mean? - Kimberle Kelly
denial of service - Justin Long
I meant what does denial of service mean? (dumb blonde here sorry) - Kimberle Kelly
If it's true..or is it propaganda? - Alex Schleber
It's down, again. - Martin Sliacky
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... more... - Zalt Woo
Thank you :o) - Kimberle Kelly
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
some government is DDOS'ing the real-time internet to cover up something :-) http://leeprovoost.posterous.com/the-twi... - Lee Provoost
hmmm - abdellah
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
@Lee this is true too :-) - Filippo Ronco
@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
Go back to MySpace? - Juliana
Maybe some will switch to FF if twitter is down for a while - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
The twitter bots are rebelling - Charles
@Flynn, go check out this Greasemonkey script, solves it: http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Alex Schleber
Come here and moan about it! - Kami Huyse
Read post on 100k unfollow - I love how people are commenting and blaming Twitter being down on that! lol - Helene
@AlexSchleber: thanks, great :) - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
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
I hope everyone will be ok...lol - April Mendez
Hey, can I hang out here on FF while my Twitter is down :) - Kevin Krewell
Welcome to FF Kevin! You can tweet from here too! - Arleen Anderson
Thanks Arleen. I hear all the kool kids hang out here now - like Scoble and you! - Kevin Krewell
I'm glad I joined FF yesterday, great timing! - CodeSamurai
I also micro-blog or create my own Twitter, but in more than 140 characters. - polou/indigo_bow
FF and Tumblr are working fine! :-) - Tim Moore
A good FF day- new familiar faces on this thread. - E-Advocate Network
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
Agreed. - Greg
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
+1 Sebastian - Bill Sodeman
I'm hung up on hop 12! - bev
I love FF! - John Giglio
come to Friend Feed? Not - Rob Cairns
You must be dying of laughter now Robert! - Arleen Anderson
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 Jepsen
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
Louis: that is true. I pissed the bots off. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
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
Ron, oh man, I hope the infrastructure will survive this :) - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Joe Magennis
Listening to the FourCast Podcast (predicting the future) with special guest Leo Laporte .. playing on twit.live.tv
ha! it's live.twit.tv :) - Sam Harrelson from IM
Oops -- multitasking brain - Joe Magennis
how long has this been on? - Sam Harrelson from IM
20 mins I'd guess. They are just getting to the longer term ideas .. If you mean as a podcast it's the second episode :-) - Joe Magennis
fantastic. how did i miss this? i bow down to you. - Sam Harrelson from IM
"money is an industrial era concept" i'm in love. when are we doing one of these?? - Sam Harrelson from IM
lol .. It's the Twit.am app. Doing the dishes earlier listening to Dr. Kiki show & Leo mentioned it was coming on. Great times! - Joe Magennis
Leo has been on a roll (bourbon) .. taking over Tom Merritt's show actually! - Joe Magennis
that's awesome. love that he's pouring while recording. dammit, leo is def my hero. - Sam Harrelson from IM
Actually .. Isn't this where you need to ping @wporter to do another Stainless Steel? - Joe Magennis
already have, waiting on him. clearly, he's not living in "real-time" :) - Sam Harrelson from IM
He is talking about Being John Malkovich .. I've seen this movie - Joe Magennis
no doubt. loved that movie but i had no idea it was predictive of the future web. - Sam Harrelson from IM
this is the greatest podcast/vidcast ever. - Sam Harrelson from IM
I'm liking it for sure .. you'll be happy to know that Veronica Belmont was on the first show, so it's a def listen after this is over - Joe Magennis
haha... if I weren't married, I'd marry her. - Sam Harrelson from IM
good show .. although it's not streaming live without Leo, they should start looking to go that way - Joe Magennis
"if i had a horse, i'd ride him home drunk" - Sam Harrelson from IM
the only other podcast that I've listened to recently that has made me laugh like that was a No Agenda .. and I have to take a break from that one every once in a while. - Joe Magennis
i haven't listened to them since May or so... need to get back on that horse, i guess. but No Agenda is such a commitment b/c it's hard to miss one and keep going. although i do love Curry's nutty ideas. - Sam Harrelson from IM
you're right that's prob why I took a break too. Dvorak seems to be more prepared with clips these days and they had some great stuff with the healthcare debate. Clips of old ladies asking why the government was going to come to "put them to death" ... they were rolling. - Joe Magennis
Jeremiah Owyang
What's wrong with Twitter?
Was working earlier this morning. Not now though. - Hutch Carpenter
What do you mean? - Thor
a serious lack of intellect coupled with an egregious amount of over pimping yourself - Braden Douglass
Twittter is down - Jeremiah Owyang
Scoble unfollowed everyone and broke it. - Steven Melfi
It's down HARD - API and web site for about an hour - Jon DiPietro
braden, is that limited to twitter? ;) - Jeremiah Owyang
when you find out, let me know... :( - Sydney Owen
It's not working here in MN... must be down; API doesn't work, either so no tweets for us - Tim Elliott
Lots of folks at Dell are noticing it's down too. - LionelatDell
site and API is totally down (nit just failwhaling). odd. - Sam Harrelson from BuddyFeed
SCOBLE BROKE TEH TWEETEZ - Jeremiah Owyang
Loaded question, Jer ;) - Brett Kelly
Not even a fail whale on this end. - Ed Moltzen
I was using pingdom to track when it was back online. - Rob Paller
huge Twitter fail right now - Kevin Norman
It's down? How is that even possible? - Justin Whitaker
Been down for at least 45mins... - Penthouse Magazine
Twitter was a figment of our imagination ;) - Valeria Maltoni
Yeah -- I haven't seen a fail whale in a while. And i just noticed that Penthouse Magazine commented on your post, Jeremiah. - Daniel B. Honigman
Does Facebook or Friendfeed pick up the real time web slack when Twitter goes down? What is your first instinct on where to turn? - Joe Magennis from iPhone
Is this todo with the injunction? Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement - and it doesn’t look good - http://bit.ly/avWLR - ImJustCreative from twhirl
"We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly" 5 mins ago on the status blog - jjprojects
Joe - Interesting how that happens, eh? Let's just move over here full time. - Sam Harrelson from IM
facebook is messed up too - (jeff)isageek
Major Fail Whale - huge - Drew Lucas from iPhone
so huge a fail, we're not even getting the whale :) FriendFeed must be rubbing their hands with glee - Robert McIntosh
I guess that's one way to get me to venture over to FriendFeed. - Ryan Stephens
Not sure, but i like it. - Johnny
@Ryan, this is a great time for me to figure out how FF works. - Sydney Owen
Kind of annoying, but interested to see where everyone will flock to in its absence... - Christian
So is this a coordinated attack on Twitter and Facebook? - Sam Harrelson from IM
Identica picks up a lot of the overflow - ImJustCreative
@Hutch I can't work, because a lot of my morning is on Twitter. Seriously. I'm just at a standstill, kinda. - Sydney Owen
LOL, I'm not the only one who is checking out Friendfeed a bit more right now :P - Selene M. Bowlby
Friendfeed was defeinitely the first place I came, then Facebook, but FB seems to be really lagging - Crispin Heath
Facebook was giving errors when commenting... - Gabe Diaz
I guess this is a perfect time for all you "die hard twitter users" to realize why Friendfeed is better! :D - Johnny
man, I think I have the shakes - Kevin Norman
Oh, look at all the fresh updates here! (Including mine) Is this the social media equivalent of a booty call? - Justin Whitaker
and the funniest part is when your first reaction is to tweet and find out what is going on. oops. Nothing on the blog, I checked. - nan braun
Can't access Twitter in NL either. Over to Friendfeed! - Samuel Driessen
I'm having login issues with Facebook as well (and so are a number of my friends in different parts of the countries). FriendFeed FTW - Sam Harrelson from IM
@Sydney I rather like FriendFeed, there's just more people on Twitter for me, it drives WAY more traffic, and it's RARE good discussions evolve here from anyone other than POWER users. - Ryan Stephens
love how we all pop over here when twitter is down ;) - Kate
Ryan: how do you have discussions on twitter? I'll agree that they are rare. - Johnny
What's up with twitter? Nothing. :-) - Panayotis Vryonis
Johnny: I have more discussions b/c my friends engage more there...of course harder to follow and usually include only 2-4 people. I LOVE the threaded comments here, provided a group of intelligent people were chatting, but how often does that happen? Sometimes with people like Scoble, Owyang and Louis Gray? (that's been my experience anyway.) - Ryan Stephens
Ryan: I don't think it's fair to assume that there is a lack of intelligent conversation on friendfeed, especially with your 12 comments and 2 likes which tells me you've never really tried it out. - Johnny
I was not fully awake trying to bring up the Twitter page. Good to know it wasn't just me. - RuthNH
Ryan: I'd be happy to build you a list of friendfeed users and send them to you later today - Johnny
Sam .. They are like alternate universes. Didn't expect anything in my Facebook feed, but knew it would be hopping here. Love this! This is going to be a Trending Topic I suspect .... - Joe Magennis from iPhone
@johnny I'd love to see that list, I'm going to sit down with friendfeed this weekend and figure it out - Sydney Owen
Well, you mean in general or just the current outage? ;) - Mads Kristiansen
Sydney: Subscribe to Kol (http://friendfeed.com/koltreg...) He is a very active user on friendfeed and already has a recommendation list. I'd be happy to create an additional one for you as well. - Johnny
.. Scoble must have run his script again, I guess.. ;) - Mads Kristiansen
Johnny: That's completely fair. I've lurked a lot & have read a lot of Louis Gray's, Scoble's and Valeria Maltoni's insights with respect to FriendFeed. You're right, maybe I'm not following the right people. And I didn't necessarily mean to imply there was a lack of intelligent conversation. It's just rare that I've seen these discussions develop from anyone's comments aside from a few power users. I'd be grateful for a list of users. - Ryan Stephens
A social networking coup? - Melissa Pierce
I heard from someone that Twitter doesn't even know why it's down. - Paul Chaney
Ryan: I'll subscribe to you and get you a list in the near future. This conversation that you are engaging in right now happens with the majority of users (not just power users). - Johnny
Yep, Twitter is still not working out here on the east coast @ 10:07am. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Facebook and Twitter are getting slammed. But internetpulse.net indicates the Internet is humming along. - Ed Moltzen
Some Graphic Design FriendFeed user names here : http://imjustcreative.com/friendf... - ImJustCreative
Thank God for Friendfeed and other such Microblogging streams. - PurpleZoe
Nothing on the twitter blog, which is still up: http://blog.twitter.com - Dion Hinchcliffe
I'm blaming Jeff Elder for breaking the Twitterz in the Charlotte area, because he wrote a column about how it was good for listening for businesses. http://bit.ly/ospIC - Andria Krewson from iPhone
Johnny: But how often does it start from someone's message that's not a 'power user' ? How often does someone following 100, have a 100 followers end up with conversations like this off of one of there comments? - Ryan Stephens
Are you asking for a list on how it can be improved, or are you referring to it being down at present? :) - Alasdair Munn
Failed Whale :-( - Gee Ekachai
Twitter works via SMS from your phone... - Tim Elliott
Tim: Who will be able to read it..? - Johnny
@johnny: if you have it wired to FF then here ;-) - Tim Elliott
I really being able to be online with FF.. Twitter still down - Kathy Mackey
Twitter is down - Hunt from BuddyFeed
Worse yet -- what's wrong with Posterous? - Daniel B. Honigman
Daniel : Yeah, cant log on to Posterous either - ImJustCreative
Looks like they're dealing with a DOS attack. - Michael Chin
More details from Jeff Elder, essentially pointing to Mashable for details. http://bit.ly/XyvnW - Andria Krewson from iPhone
Twitter now says they're defending against a denial of service attack: http://bit.ly/IpVQf - Dion Hinchcliffe
our coverage: Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal Down at the Same Time! Update: Twitter Experiencing DDOS Attack http://bit.ly/vZbMC - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Posterous is acting a little wacky as well. - Steven Melfi
a lot of things - andy brudtkuhl
FB down too? - Alex Hayes
No Twitter? No FB? Yikes! I may actually get some WORK done this morning... :) - Alex Hayes
i've had problems with Facebook too. as i've been saying, i think friendfeed is the obvious choice for backup scenarios. - DanielthePoet
Thanks for the recommendation, Johnny. Sydney if you are interested in the list, let me know here: http://ff.im/5IcYN - Kol Tregaskes
Sam Harrelson
Twitter being down makes me realize how much better FriendFeed is as a platform.
Ah schadenfruede, my old friend. We meet again. - Dave Slusher
haha... yep. - Sam Harrelson from IM
alright, Jangro and Joe... if we move over here full time, all the cool kids in our circle will follow us. Let's do it. - Sam Harrelson from IM
Twitter - suck == FriendFeed - Dave Slusher
I already have. But you're the only one who listens to me here. - Scott Jangro
My tipping point in favor of FF wasn't this Twitter outage, but the BuddyFeed app on the iPhone. Great little piece of software. - Sam Harrelson
I'm there .. What Iphone app do you like. Is BuddyFeed the way to go? - Joe Magennis
Cleaning up my following list here now so I can make the move. Yep, on BuddyFeed. - Sam Harrelson
Ha ,, beat me with the recommendation. On the desktop I have the Friendfeed notifier running all the time. Love it. - Joe Magennis
I've got FF running through GMail's IM integration. Makes me pine for the good old days before Twitter sold out :) Now if FF would just enable its search/Track feature within the IM client, I'd be a happy man. - Sam Harrelson from IM
I haven't actively used FF in ages. Took a while to load, guessing their servers are getting hit due to Twitter and Facebook going down. I went to CNN to see if there was a Social Media virus, but got the word on Mashable that it's unknown. - Mike Buechele
Whatever it is, it's fun (for us... not the poor developers). This will certainly raise some questions about mission critical social sites, etc. - Sam Harrelson
Raises major questions ... I am seeing some sarcasm, ho hums, derogatory comments aimed at Twitter (especially non-users) .. But this is a much bigger situation than just not being able to stay connected to a follower base. Without a doubt we are heading towards ubiquitous live web connectivity and reliance on these services for news, communication .. hell, even critical medical... more... - Joe Magennis
Good points... so is the answer open-source federated micro-messaging clients (many little Twitters/laconi.cas)? Having everything go through one company doesn't seem like the right answer. - Sam Harrelson
And of course, along with those federated clients we'd have to make twitter a protocol akin to IMAP or POP :) - Sam Harrelson
yup .. it's why I was so interested in the early developments of Identi.ca (& why I miss the Gilmor Gang talking about this stuff). - Joe Magennis from BuddyFeed
no doubt. hey, we should do a podcast :) - Sam Harrelson
daddy daycare going on ... I'll ping you in a bit. - Joe Magennis from BuddyFeed
Joe Magennis
Re: My New Fav Podcast: TWIG - http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009...
"Yep .. Saturday evening fired up my Twit.am iPhone app (which I use all the time btw) .. to catch the inaugural episode. They will certainly not be at a loss for topics to cover, especially when they take into account the entire area of Cloud computing. Also, the last Net@Night interview with founder of YFrog was great .. before you know it he's going to be storing all of our video data." - Joe Magennis
Joe Magennis
Socialtext: Customers: Case Studies: Epitaph Records - http://www.socialtext.com/custome...
For review to better outline SWAT - Joe Magennis
Joe Magennis
Re: Messin’ with the Site - http://geekdadsathome.com/messin-...
"Not sure what kind of fun you are having but when I discovered the "always pin this post to top" setting in WP it made my day :-)" - Joe Magennis
Joe Magennis
My Twitter Experiment -or- I am not Jeff Molander | ReveNews - http://www.revenews.com/davidle...
This post is actually all about the comments. Read them and learn. - Joe Magennis
Sam Harrelson
Apple kicking out GV Mobile is up there w/ Amazon's boneheaded 1984 stunt. Seems like only big web co. looking to play right is Google.
Sam .. I commented about this on another FF post, but I'll say it here too. I will be very disappointed if native apps from Google for GV service also get banned! I am expecting to have a better way to use GV in the future and don't want to be blocked out by Apple. Would be a big mistake on their part with Android options avail. - Joe Magennis
just amazing. i would love to switch to an Android phone at this rate. complete and utter fail on AppleT&T. - Sam Harrelson from IM
Svy Nekrasas
RT@waynesutton Getting out of hand Apple yanks GVMobile app frm the app store.Glad I downloaded it http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... Just as bad as Amazon
hmm... don't like this development. I already downloaded this app, but I want to see better Google Voice functionality integrated with my iPhone, hate to think of Apple interfering. - Joe Magennis
Joe Magennis
Re: Cards from the Diamond - http://baseballisms.com/glenn-b...
"I've always gotten a kick out of this card .. What the heck is the umpire saying to Glenn as he steps in the box. "This guys got your number"?.... "I blew that last call"?.... "Does this chest protector make me look fat?"? ... And ultimately why would they choose this shot for the 1973 Baseball card? So many questions." - Joe Magennis
Pamela
Q2. Can we have multiple threads going at once? Will that take away from the nice rhythm we seem to have going on Twitter?
I think people will flock to most current Q which should keep it at top of page - conversations on earlier questions will continue to dribble in like they do now. At least it's easy to tell what is supposed to be where. - Scott Blitstein
right .. that's what i was thinking. You might have a pile of people on one thread having a good conversation while another question is just getting started. But again, thinking out loud, one big ole threaded conversation will be a monster. - Joe Magennis
Honestly, I'm liking this quite a bit. - Scott Blitstein
Yep - I agree. Many advantages - a few little quirks. Anything different is going to be, well, different. All in favor of FF as official alternate say Aye! - Pamela
Aye! - Neal Rohrbach
I say Aye! - Scott Blitstein
I great tool I leave open on my desktop all the time is http://friendfeed.com/about... .. a little pop up appears whenever someone has posted something within the stream I am following ... - Joe Magennis
@Joe rockin, much appreciated on the notifier. @ideaanglers is looking into using FF for some of our member services. - Neal Rohrbach
Alright folks promised the wife I'd be off the computer by 10pm every night this week. I'm in trouble! - Neal Rohrbach
Neal .. that's a good idea. You can even make these things private (somehow) .. so it's not open to the public - Joe Magennis
Thanks all for your help testing. And thanks again Scott for the awesome chat tonight! I could hear your fingers flying all the way over here. - Pamela
Thanks Neal - you can go ahead and blame me if you want. - Scott Blitstein
I had a great time - I just love me some talking about web apps you know. - Scott Blitstein
Well this is after all just a back-up solution, right? But it would be good to have the rules in place should we need to use it! - Michelle Riggen-Ransom
Yes, for back-up I think it works. Did realize I had missed many of the comments when I went back through and read these - but we wouldn't have this many topics going at once. - Pamela
I'll get a real sbbuzz account set up and we can work on detailed instructions. - Pamela
So - it might be fun to use this group (actually the real one at sbbuzz-chat) for some filler content during the summer hiatus. I have this "Newbies to Twitter" post at http://bit.ly/W1DDf - some great nuggets there. Maybe the off-weeks of the Twitter chat we can throw out a "special project" like this with some questions in a FriendFeed chat that people can come answer when they want to. Less interactive, but still something useful and crowd-sourced. What do you all think? - Small Business Buzz
Pamela
OK - quick trial run. Q1 - What color is your parachute? #sbbuzz
I don't know, customers this week drove me to jump without it - Neal Rohrbach
I was going to say I forgot it up in the plane before I jumped - or maybe I was pushed. - Scott Blitstein
@Neal - see if it makes sense if I try to reply to you here. BTW, you guys are morbid! - Pamela
Hey guys .. looks like you are giving Friendfeed a trial for future #sbbuzz .. cool! Sorry I am just getting into the office now. Must have missed a good one. - Joe Magennis
@Pamela I guess maybe?....took me this long to figure out how you replied, lol - Neal Rohrbach
@joe we're just doing some old fashioned continuity planning. - Scott Blitstein
Hi Joe! Yep - just having a little late night nerd fun. - Pamela
@Neal I do like that I can use your first name. Your Twitter handle it a tongue-twister! - Pamela
FF works well for this type of threaded convo. Wonder if it makes sense to post multiple questions in diff threads .. or try to have one massive thread each week. That might get a little cumbersome - Joe Magennis
And it looks like the 140 character count is out the window. And it looks like the 140 character count is out the window. And it looks like the 140 character count is out the window. And it looks like the 140 character count is out the window. And it looks like the 140 character count is out the window. And it looks like the 140 character count is out the window. And it looks like the 140 character count is out the window. - Neal Rohrbach
I like the idea of each Q going in a different thread with responses captured below. Think how easy it will be for chel to pull together the summary! - Scott Blitstein
Joe Magennis
Re: Geek Dads @ Home #21 – and Then There Were Two - http://geekdadsathome.com/geek-da...
"Guess it was a given that we'd have to go with the Genesis intro music!!" - Joe Magennis
Joe Magennis
"Nice! Here I was thinking the secret prize was the SlideShare tip .. When in fact it was a shoutout soundbite of Morris Day! You guys got style :-)" - Joe Magennis
Vlad Zabblotskyy
GoDaddy just screwed my 301 redirects.... don't ever do 301 via their cPanel
Hey Vlad .. I was literally talking about GoDaddy redirects with someone as you posted this. What happens? - Joe Magennis
Sam Harrelson
I'm looking forward to a day when companies don't use hashtag contests on Twitter and/or my friends don't participate.
Oh c'mon Sam .. You don't want to win a #moonunit, #moonpie, #moonie Mac Book Pro? :-) - Joe Magennis
haha... no. you made me hungry with the #moonpie mention, though. dammit. - Sam Harrelson from IM
I've recently been followed by someone calling herself MoonUnit Zappa too (twice) .. so that was fresh in mind for a hashtag! - Joe Magennis
that might be the best username ever. - Sam Harrelson from IM
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