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@Robert Gonzalez That single developer does have accountability "outside the walls" if that's his job. I saw Alex, Biz and Jack speak at #bearhugcamp to a roomful of Microblog developers, what Alex told the entire room was: "just e-mail me" and we'll give you all the Twitter API access you need. Jesse has written an O'Reilly book himself and also has programmed extensively against the Twitter API, his concerns are legit. - Brian Hendrickson

Let the guy have a life. Unbelievable. - Todd Hoff

Thanks Brian - I guess it only makes sense if you've written a book before and you're a Twitter developer having seen the problems the API has. I wish Alex well on his book - I'm happy to see that. I'm just concerned that now isn't the time, for the sake of all us other API developers. I'm surprised Twitter hasn't come up with a statement about this. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

@todd Microblogging (and the developer ecosystem which created the bustling "tools" market for Twitter users) is a big deal. just look at today's Wall Street Journal (which by the way mis-identifies the Twitter-founders in the photo caption) http://is.gd/4Tdb The funny thing, to me, is all of the Twitter fans (not gonna say 'fanboys') who rush around defending it and writing silly blog posts like "let's all team up and help find a business plan for twitter!". People LOVE Twitter. It's a terrific service. - Brian Hendrickson

I program using Twitter APIs and Alex has helped me numerous times. I just hope he can carve out a fun and meaningful life amongst all the craziness. - Todd Hoff

Someone at the WSJ must be listening, the photo caption is now correct. - Brian Hendrickson

omg - that's hysterical!!! - shaun mclane

Arr that we did! Err - Mo Kargas

'tis scurvy pirate's day. If ye think ye can do better why don't ye poset yer own, slippy - Mona Nomura

This is wrong. - Thomas Frütel

OMG... awful! :*) - Susan Beebe

well, i warned Princess Fiona, but all i got was "I know him better than you". Gave up. - Steven Livingstone-Pérez from twhirl

LMAO. Well that's probably fake knocked up wasn't in the same timeframe. - Parth Awasthi

That is freaking awesome. I always wondered who was responsible. Now I know. - Robert Gonzalez

or it could be a re-run theatre. we have a lot of them here and they'll show 3 movies spannng 3 decades. - Admiral Anika

I were just a-yanking yer peg-leg, Mona. - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

Parth - they are when you put a "3" each after pirates and shrek. - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

So which fracking one of you Pirates knocked up Shrek? (I'm talking like I am from Battle Star Galactic, so thats why I used the word Fracked.) - Colide81 (James)

lol, James - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

;D) - Colide81 (James)

That be an amusing photo there, arr. - Voyagerfan5761

I agree. Is that too subtle? - Scot Duke

Most the time I would say they are too scared to be honest. - Robert Gonzalez

Comments are just an expression of the moment - but they linger - and new commenters may think they are being subtle, or funny, in that moment. I forget that some times; the moment lasts as long as that database is online. - LPH™ and his dog P™

how long before linkedin and facebook can simply swap their logos and the sites will still look the same? - Jeff Woelker

Design deserves a royal boo IMO - embee

I was a bit thrown off by it. I don't know that I dislike it tho. - Clay Newton

All the technology in the world and that is what we get. Awesome. FAIL. - Robert Gonzalez

couldn't agree more, it looks corporate... like old one better too - DianiRo

I like that the profiles aren't cluttered with applications like Myspace anymore. The dedicated tab for applications is nice - Thomas B

Old is gold! - kiran

the new profile hangs to the left... And soon the right will be cluttered with ads. Like the new one better though. - Markus Tressl

The FF effect? - Todd

Now you've done it. Wait for it, wait for it... - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

twitter is damn fast the past few days - MG Siegler

It has been surprisingly stable - and somewhat fast for me as well... - Robert

Shhhhhh, you'll jinx it. - connor

Sounds like the FF effect to me. - Matt Donders from twhirl

I it's because people are super smart and they made twitter super over the previous week. - Greg Wilker

Reminded me of this: http://twitter.com/boogah... - Vincent X

no more traffic now everyone else has gone else where - Toby Weston from twhirl

I just read this and did a little bit of sick in my mouth. - Chris Nixon

Ya know - if Twitter got rid of all the spammers - I bet their services would actually work.... - George Smith

Yeah, I think a lot more of us are looking at FF, etc. I'm only posting on Twitter via Ping... not checking there. - Paul Otto

I am spending a lot less time actually posting on Twitter. Right now I bounce posts starting at Ping.fm -> BrightKite -> Twitter Haven't seen a whale in a while. - Robert Gonzalez

Does this have any correlation to Pivotal Labs doing work for Twitter? If anyone knows how to scale RoR, it's PL. - AJ Kohn

and pownce's load times are significantly improved... what's next? - Frankie Warren

I thought someone did post something yesterday saying that Twitter had managed to make some improvements recently. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

maybe it's not crashing, but it still doesn't have IM support back yet. - Ben Reierson

Twutter seens ti be dead, used to be getting a few hundred updates an hour now only getting like 10-15. - Andrew Fielding

I think people are starting to use it less and less. Like me, i guess... - Saul Mora from twhirl

They allow for more update requests again now. Its back to 70 per hour where as it has been 20 or something for a while now. Things are looking up at last :) - Simon Wicks

...but twitters downtime is its business model! Remember friendster? - Vipin Chamakkala

I agree with others I think people are using it less because of the summer months, and maybe their infrastructure is better after their big $15 million dollar injection - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

@Simon, where did you see that the API requests is set to 70 again? According to their status page it's still at 20. - John Barker

It's staying up, and I'm amazed. - Aaron Myers

...which is good to know since I just signed up. "knocks on wood" - JA Castillo

@twitter You can do it! - alanoakes

Awesome. I just stopped getting my text updates. Thanks for the jinx, Rose! - Sumant Srivathsan

Please don't say that again... It could make it crash just because of the words ! :-) - Pierre-Olivier Carles from feedalizr

@todd I think you're right, it' the friendfeed effect :) - Markingegno - Donato

It's definitely not the FriendFeed effect, Twitter is still growing. Turns out they actually are doing stuff to fix the service. See: http://venturebeat.com/2008... - Nicholas Molnar

@John Barker tweet deck (the twitter application) twittered about it, so im just going from them - Simon Wicks

seems it works much better - Jean-François Amadei from twhirl

That was really sweet. - Jordan Hofker

I think Ansel Adams would have really enjoyed this. - Andy Roth

I want a surface for myself. Seeing that climber is insane. - Matt Donders from twhirl

I can't help it... everytime I see Microsoft Surface in action I think http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Robert Gonzalez

The Seadragon stuff is impressive as usual. I hadn't seen the dial UI before. That was pretty cool, in that it takes us back to a day when things were operated with physical dials. I wonder if people will prefer the tactile dials to the ones that are merely drawn on screen... - Karim

Very cool. Re-posted to blog - Douglas E. Welch from twhirl

Karim: I thought those dials were cool. I loved the interaction of the physical with the virtual. - Robert Scoble

The bridge between physical and virtual is very interesting to me. I just picked up a new LG Voyager that has a tactile feedback touch screen. First one I've ever owned. Cool stuff. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Surface is amazing. - Nicholas James

when they put the dice on there - reminded me of this: http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/ - Cole Orton

nice little vid. the way all the photos were organized looked amazing - Cee Bee

A nice application of Surface. - Daniel Miessler

I just showed this to my wife who thinks this is the coolest thing ever! - Joseph Ferris