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Scott O'Raw commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: TUAW wins the "phrase of the day" award
June 12 at 5:27 am - Link
"Thanks, Ian. Due to an involuntary burst of laughter, I've just spat a large mouthful of noodles over my laptop !" - Scott O'Raw
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“Eureka - Friendfeed has added the ability to include multiple administrators in rooms. Who'd like to put their hand up? Scott I've upgraded you as per our initial conversation, but don't feel obligated. I think it's just valuable to have more than one person with keys to drive the bus :)”
June 5 at 4:33 pm - Link
Hi Mike. Just noticed your comment. Glad FriendFeed has added this. As I said, I'm happy to "have a set of keys" - although please feel free to take them back off me at any time ;-) - Scott O'Raw
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“Dear Disqus... I trusted you. I let you host all my comments and run the show. Now that you're down, where is the transparency? What's the uptime ETA?”
June 6 at 7:46 am - Link
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Even their front-end site is down. That's disappointing. - Mark Trapp
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hmmm might have to modify templates to check if the service is up before attempting to render comments - Bwana McCall
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I'm just seeing that comments are altogether missing. e-mail receive/reply of comments has been out 12 hours-ish. : ( - Robert Seidman
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One reason why I stick with the comment features on the blog host i've been using for the last 5 years or so.. - Simon Bisson via Alert Thingy
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LOL David - Bwana McCall
[Simpsons' Helen Lovejoy voice] Won't someone PLEASE think of the children [/Simpsons' Helen Lovejoy voice] - Scott O'Raw
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Scott O'Raw commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Scoble – a one channel radio station of white noise
June 5 at 5:46 am - Link
"woah, I must have missed that one, Paul (thankfully). It's appalling that nonsense of this nature gates disseminated by someone who claims to act as a filter - where's the filtering here? And while we're at it, there should be a retraction from Robert that either a) he was taken in by this or b) he was in on the act - which if it is the latter, is, to my mind, utterly reprehensible." - Scott O'Raw
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Steven Hodson posted an entry on WinExtra
Scoble – a one channel radio station of white noise
June 5 at 12:32 am - Link
just commented on your blog but copy/pasting here: A fine, well judged analysis. Robert said something to me via Twitter recently regarding Twitter's recent problems. I suggested that, collectively, we should consider taking it easy on Twitter as it is, after all is said and done, a free service. Robert replied that it it wasn't, in fact, a free service as he paid for it in his attention. As Robert put it; "My time isn't free. Is yours?" It struck me as a curious way of looking at things, but not an approach that I would necessarily dismiss out of hand. However, if this is a model of "commerce" that he finds validity in then I think it's something Robert should do well to remember i.e. we are all paying for Robert by OUR attention and we expect a decent ROI with less supercilious 'downtime' . - Scott O'Raw
Well written Steven. Robert will probably enjoy it to be at the center of this one ;) In general I'm thinking that there is only one relevant filter of information and that is the user himself. I have serious doubts that the mass on the Internet even remotely feels the pressure of noise. Why? Because they aren't into this rat race of wanting to know everything first and then echo about it. Chose the people and sources you wish to follow carefully and the noise disappears instantly. - Alexander van Elsas
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We can still discover new things by trying out different sources, but unfollowing is more important than following. If you hit a source of noise (it's personal), then get rid of it. If the noise helps you discover new signal, well, deal with it. I'd rather not use algorithms too much, because they tend to flatten out the world, letting us all hear the same things. Having said all this, I realize I use Google on a daily basis ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Well said Alexander! We share the same opinion on filters, and how the user and I mean the lambda-user, should be the center of content filtering. As I already said, Popularity of the content is the perversion of interest. It's not because something gets popular (by any mean) that it has to be significant for "me". Thus no algorithm that doesn't explicitly consults me on my needs will be able to filter content for me. Maybe people will be interested by our thread http://friendfeed.com/e/37cf27... - directeur
But as I already said: It's up to them :) - directeur
Commented in blog, dude. - Mark Dykeman
Random thought: In one respect, social networks do not distinguish between A-listers and listers of any other letter. Thus, the feed from Scobleizer has no more, or no less, validity than All Things Jennifer. Both are different, and both are interesting. I wonder, however, about the average Twitter user with only ten followers; if you only have a few people in your network, perhaps you should only have personal friends. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
@Alexander I definitely agree that this problem is more of an early adopter problem and that the typical web traveller probably won't even consider this discussion anything more than just plain silly. - Steven Hodson
For a minute there I thought you were talking about what we're doing at http://www.fastcompany.tv (live show starts in a few minutes). I'm also broadcasting at http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer and have a chat room there. - Robert Scoble
@OE it might be interesting if one could assign a importance value to those in our various "friends" lists so that one's near the top would bubble to the surface faster than those at the bottom. As such let's say I gave you and Alexander a higher value than Robert. I would still get Robert's input but anything from you or Alexander would automatically place higher then Robert the moment either of you posted something. Just a thought. - Steven Hodson
Robert does produce a prodigious volume. But his S/N ratio is still much higher than most bloggers/posters/producers. Even when the ratio slips sometimes the quality of the signal is so high that not listening means you are missing a lot. Others I turn off or on occasionally when their spew gets annoying (Winer, Arrington are examples) but so for I have never tuned out Scoble for even a day. Of course this is always one of those YMMV issues. - Brian Sullivan
@Brian I agree with you concerning Robert's S/N ration but I find that in FF at least I still see the more important "signals" of his via the "Friends of Friends" option so I don't *need* to be subscribed to him. Previously I was a follower on Twitter but the noise got to be too much. His blog (and link blog) I have always subscribed to except for one very short period when *everything* was video related and I wasn't interested. Like you said though YMMV - Steven Hodson
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Scott O'Raw commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Scoble – a one channel radio station of white noise
June 5 at 1:45 am - Link
"Hi Steve, A fine, well judged analysis. Robert said something to me via Twitter recently regarding Twitter's recent problems. I suggested that that, collectively, we should consider taking it easy on Twitter as it is, after all is said and done, a free service. Robert replied that it it wasn't, in fact, a free service as he paid for it in his attention. As Robert put it; "My time isn't free. Is yours?" It struck me as a curious way of looking at things, but not an approach that I would necessarily dismiss out of hand. However, if this is a model of "commerce" that he finds validity in then I think it's something Robert should do well to remember i.e. we are all paying for Robert by OUR attention and we expect a decent ROI with less supercilious 'downtime'." - Scott O'Raw
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Colin Walker posted a message
“Going to conduct an experiment: sign up a separate FF account and behave like a 'user' rather than a geek to see what I can get out of it when outside of the echo chamber.”
June 4 at 8:51 am - via fftogo - Link
Its going to be hard to change your mindset. - David Risley
will your user profile subscribe to your geek profile? Would one bleed through into the other? This is really interesting stuff, let us know how it all goes! - Iain Baker
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David - I agree but I think it's something worth trying to gain some perspective and a different point of view - Colin Walker via fftogo
But what will you read then? - Cyndy
@Cyndy - that's my question too. Colin - to whom will you subscribe? - Hutch Carpenter
The two accounts will be completely separate and the new one will focus on non-tech stuff. I'll find to subscribe to via searches - not really worked it all out yet ;) - Colin Walker via fftogo
Colin, I do understand. My initial reaction to FriendFeed wasn't exactly positive. Then it grew on me. Still noisy, but I learned to dig it. - David Risley
pseudo handles have always been around- depends what type of online personality you want that pseudo handle to take on. - Peter Dawson
possibly, to tackle David's point about changing your mindset, you could ask a non-tech friend to sign up to FriendFeed and report back to you on their experience. Sounds like a interesting experiment at any rate, Colin. - Scott O'Raw
So THAT's why I got a signup from "NotColin_ForRealz". - Louis Gray
Scary - what if we find out there's life out there? - Aviv
@Louis, hehehe - not done it yet and nothing personal but I won't be subscribing to any of the usual suspects ;) - Colin Walker
@David, my initial reaction soon after launch was similar but I attribute that to not having many 'friends' on it at the time so it didn't really click. Once I subscribed to more people the value became apparent. As for getting someone else to do it, I don't think the experience will translate as well as I would hope. We'll see what happens. - Colin Walker
please do a lessons learned write up on this - love to see your findings! - Susan Beebe
HOW I DON'T CARE !!! - directeur
I was kidding of course! read more here :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ho... - directeur
Hmmm, okay ;) - Colin Walker
you're a geek?? - Mary Anne Davis
'fraid so Mary - Colin Walker
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Alexander van Elsas posted an entry on Alexander van Elsas's Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior
Why noise will be tackled by scaling down the social media conversation
June 4 at 6:08 am - Link
It ties in with a theme Scott O'Raw hit earlier today on FF http://friendfeed.com/e/9b227c... - Alexander van Elsas
Well said as always. As I said before, the global conversation won't go away but we will learn what is important and only focus on what we need to. - Colin Walker
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Just posted on your blog but will copy/paste here: Excellent post (as usual, damn you ;) ). Thanks for the mention. I totally agree that following people for the sake of it is an exercise in futility. Brand Scobleizer will, no doubt, thunder along regardless of what you or I say, however. - Scott O'Raw
agreed, but the problem is that there are too many good people to follow - Dobromir Hadzhiev via twhirl
@Sprague, Google fits in just like any other filtering system. It'll help you to find answers to straight forward questions like "Who is Barack Obama". But it will be much more difficult to get to a place where politically engaged people are discussing their personal views regarding the vision of Obama. Filtering or search won't help there as the amount of hits increase dramatically. - Alexander van Elsas
Scott thanks (I think ;-) ) Actually, the point isn't that we must follow less people, that is a personal choice. Robert Scoble wouldn't do that and that is fine. But in general I'm inclined to think that as millions start to participate the concpe tof having many people to follow in order to get enough signal (or noise, whichever you want) will be a strategy we can't keep up. Add the mobile aspect to the equation and we get smaller more immersed communities. Am I right?Heck I can't look into the future ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
@Dobromir that sounds like a luxury, not like a problem to me. If the people are good, the quality is good, then you would probably not experience an overflow of useless stuff right ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
whats a "social media conversation"? is it different than a "conversation"? - Jeremy Toeman
Alexander: you define yourself by who you follow. If you only follow your family, that defines you. If you follow a crowd, like I do, that defines you too. One is not necessarily better than the other, you just gotta decide for yourself what kind of inputs you want. - Robert Scoble
Robert, very true. But I'm not really talking about who to follow, that is a personal choice indeed. I just think there will be less following, but more targeted. If 1 Bln people are engaging, then there will be just too much great stuff around. Everyone, even you Robert, then will have to scale down a bit and try to reach that critical point where you can still engage meaningfully, and at the same time get the good stuff to you asap. - Alexander van Elsas
Robert, I do like your view that you define yourself by who you follow. I am guessing when the conversation becomes as big as predicted, people are bound to stat making choices and limit to some point both their own input and the "noise (love that word)" of others. Maybe our own profiling will be much more targeted, because we are then forced to make choices ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Jeremy The biggest potential difference is the scale they can reach. Social media overcomes time and space boundaries we normally have in the Physical world. Try having this conversation with 1000 people at your home ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
I already do exactly that. I don't follow everyone. Just early adopters who are interested in Tech. That is why 12000 follow me here but I am only following 2700. - Robert Scoble
Aha, someone was already asking if there were limits to the information you can handle Robert. I said I'd ask ;-) But the interesting question is, what if about 10.000 early adopters join in from China, 20.000 from India, another 10.000 from Russia, etc,etc. What would you do then? Can you elaborate on that? - Alexander van Elsas
@Alexander - will they be posting in a language Robert can read? - Hutch Carpenter
@hutch Sure, and if they don't, Google will have figured out automatic translations by then. There will be more, no matter what language - Alexander van Elsas
http://blog.kingsley2.com/2008... - Kingsley Joseph via twhirl
Pretty obvious stuff -- people at the "head" of social media (those who subscribe to hundreds of feeds and/or just the "talk show hosts" like Scoble and Pirillo) get a lot of noise while the people at the "tail" (those who subscribe just to their core circle of friends and/or trusted colleagues) get much less noise and relatively higher percentage of insight. - Lawrence Liu
Lawrence, you may be right. But that equation might not hold when millions join in. The numbers would be amazing. We all need to watch out where to join in by then. But it's certainly a much bigger problem for the early adopters. - Alexander van Elsas
It's difficult for me to contemplate FF or some other service with a billion users. But let's say it can happen. The first thing I'd think about would be the filters: they'd have to let me cut the universe of users and content pretty finely. I think you're right that we'd have to scale back. At the same time, though, I like finding unanticipated useful information in my stream. A fancy, robust filtering tool might provide both. - Tom Landini
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Scott O'Raw posted an entry on Scott O'Raw's Journal
Why The World-Wide Talk Show Doesn’t Need A Host
June 4 at 4:02 am - Link
It might not be objective journalism, but it is one of the better personal views I have been reading out here in a while. Well done Scott. As Steven Hodson once told me, I hope you have a kevlar vest at home. Steven referred to my attempt to explain to iPhone fans why it wasn't that great of a telephone, but you are taking on a web icon ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
BTW I was thinking about a post myself on the evolution of this world wide conversation, so I might tie it in with you story if I can - Alexander van Elsas
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lol @ kevlar vest. I guess I can take solace in the fact that's it's a long way to Scotland from San Francisco ;) - Scott O'Raw
The problem is he is confused. My blog is not journalism. If you expect journalism there you'll be sorely disappointed. You might see journalism there from time to time, but it's pretty rare. Mostly I'm giving you my opinion on my blog. Now, in FastCompany.tv or in the magazine? THAT is where you should expect my journalism. Here on FriendFeed? I'm a connector, noise maker, entertainer, ranter, participant, etc. - Robert Scoble
No Robert I am not confused. Whether your blog should, or even could, be held up as a journalistic endeavor is not the point of the post. As the title suggests you are holding up the current state of the internet as a 'world-wide talk show' and, by the actions I highlight in the post, expect to be treated as the host of that show. - Scott O'Raw
@Alexander: sure. I look forward to your post on the word wide conversation - Scott O'Raw
Scott: right. Like I am going to be THE ONE AND ONLY HOST of the World Wide Talk Show. That's funny. I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of it! - Robert Scoble
....and here we go again. Did I say the ONE AND ONLY? In the post I said that I only singled you out as you coined the "world wide talk show" phrase but that there were "others whose hubristic endeavors leave me just as cold" - Scott O'Raw
You just implied that four posts above this one that you were talking specifically about me being the "host" (note singular) of that show. So, who else we talking about? - Robert Scoble
@Robert yes Robert, I feel there are others who, sadly, fall into this category. My point is that it shouldn't be "The Robert Scoble Show" or anyones SHOW for that matter - that fundamentally goes against the nature of a discussion - Scott O'Raw
@Sprague: Robert DOES provide value and I wouldn't want to suggest for a moment that he doesn't - the access that Robert has will continue to provide value well into the future I'm sure. Sorry, I disagree on the Twitter thing. From what I read I think Robert did perceive that as a personal attack - and it's my assertion that he did he do so with in order to gain more attention. - Scott O'Raw
Sometimes I wish it were possible to write posts like this without actually focusing on anyone like Scoble. The trouble for me is so many of these posts wind up seeming like sour grapes over Scoble being popular on the Internet. Some of it's linkbaiting and that's fine. The truth is, as it has always been, there are LOTS of hosts -- Scott, you're one. I'm one, lots of people with blogs are one. BUT, most of us don't have thousands and thousands following us on Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, etc. Those who do will often have the appearance of being more the center of attention. Just the way it is. - Robert Seidman
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Twitter: Howard O'Berry posted a message
“So twitter is down because of a scheduled outage I guess. How are you dudes doing?”
June 3 at 5:16 am - Link
Twitter seems to be working fine for me, at the moment :) - AlanLB
I don't seem to be experiencing the outage.. Odd. - Brad McCrorey
Shhhhh. Don't talk about outages, lest we provoke the Twitter gods and make them angry ;) - Scott O'Raw
Just don't look into their eyes or you will turn to stone! - Joe Dawson
LMAO@Joe. Twitter gods are ALL medusa??? Now, there's a corporate image.. - Brad McCrorey
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Twitter: Brad McCrorey posted a message
“Executive decision. I'll leave the plurk discussions that are already here, henceforth unless there is a STRONG twitter relation, plurk posts will be happily despatched to the friendfeed rubbish bin.”
June 2 at 11:04 pm - Link
Sigh. I suppose that's a little strong.. I'm just getting a LOT of plurk traffic in here and in Twitter. I guess I just don't feel the same sense of excitement. - Brad McCrorey
Well - I agree - there's already a Plurk-room - so why not use that? - Christian Bogh
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Thanks for the support, Christian. :) - Brad McCrorey
seems both logical and fair, Brad - Scott O'Raw
Thanks Scott :) I hate deleting any post from here, as I don't feel like I "own" the space. But, I just want to keep things relative and interesting to as many people as possible. - Brad McCrorey
Is there a way yet to MOVE posts (or at least hide them from the Twitter group, but not delete them). Does the administrator have a group-hide option? (I should learn this for my groups...) - Mitchell Tsai
I agree that you don't show off your girlfriend to your EX! - Howard O'Berry
Mitchell - Not that I can see. No fine-grained control at all, yet (the feature's not even 2 weeks old yet ;) ). I just noticed that I can moderate comments, though... IIIIIInteresting. - Brad McCrorey
LOL@Howard :) - Brad McCrorey
Brad: For now, how about cross-posting the Plurk comments to the Plurk room; e.g. Add a comment "This item has been cross-posted to the Plurk room at <link to new post in Plurk room>. All comments after this will be deleted." to every Plurk post? It's a courteous way not to delete stuff. Luckily, I've only had to delete 1 comment from my posts (although there have been 3-5 other ones have tempted me...) - Mitchell Tsai
Brad: Cool hang-loose sign on your pop-up picture! :-) - Mitchell Tsai
Thanks, but I have to be truthful, it's actually rock horns. I didn't think of doing a shaka.. Probably more apropos given my nickname :P - Brad McCrorey
Brad: What's the difference between "rock horns" and "shaka"? - Mitchell Tsai
Gladly! Rock horns is the "heavy metal" thing.. Thumb, middle and ring fingers folded down, index finger and little finger raised like devil horns. Shaka / hang-loose is simpler: Index, middle and ring fingers folded down and thumb and pinky raised.. I hope that makes sense! - Brad McCrorey
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Social Media: MikeonTV posted a link
Okay guys. Plurk has gotten a huge boost today. I just think everyone should check it out. If you enjoy Twitter or FF rooms then you may enjoy this!
June 1 at 1:26 pm - Link
We must have posted our invites at almost the exact same time. - Heidi Cool
"Oops... The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few moments. " - looks like it's down. - Scott O'Raw
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Thanks for the invite! Plurk doesn't have much integration yet but seems cool to have for the long run :) - AKs
Yes it is down ATM. It is actually really cool! - MikeonTV
Could be cool. Started an account. Thanks for the heads up! EDITED TO SAY: It's kinda cute and fun. "Cliques"? Really, is that necessary? http://www.plurk.com/user/msom... - Kimberly J
I just set up an account, http://www.plurk.com/user/tnei.... - Timothy Neilen
I am going to give plurk a try - http://www.plurk.com/user/lsfl... - Shane Floyd
g to make an account, but i think I am long past the point of social saturation. - Howard O'Berry via twhirl
Interesting site. I signed up but the horizontal frame gives me a headache... http://www.plurk.com/user/dosh... - Maki
I also wrote a quick greasemonkey hack for the site already. just a small improvement http://tinyurl.com/6ebesr - MikeonTV
FriendFeed
Robert Scoble posted a message
“Twitter invited me over this afternoon says they didn't blame me.”
May 30 at 12:16 pm - Link
olive branch - marty nickel via twhirl
so are you going to apologise to them over the "Screw you, Twitter" comment? - Scott O'Raw
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If we don't hear from Scoble again, we know what happened.... - Pokai
marty nailed it, olive branch - Bwana McCall
They didn't blame you. That Siegler guy did. - Dewald Pretorius
Does this mean I can't blame you for global warming any more? - Sean Reiser
Maybe Biz Stone will sit Scoble in front of a workstation and tell him to start coding. - Kevin D. White
They can't (or shouldn't) blame you, because prolific users help promoting the service. - Leon Ho
Cool! - Mitchell Tsai
I'll apologize if they tell everyone that big users aren't to blame at all for their troubles. They did say that users that run scripts are who they were aiming their guns at. - Robert Scoble
40-50% think scoble - Jay Martinez via twhirl
Sean: I'm still responsible for global warming. I'm burning coal to keep my Internet running. - Robert Scoble
40-50% think scoble when someone says "popular users" on twitter. this is who they blamed. - Jay Martinez via twhirl
I guess they didn't read: "Always blame your top users and their toddlers," by the RIAA. - Andy Sternberg
I wanna go with you! Roadtrip! - Britney Mason
Scoble is also responsible for the current "recession-like" state of the economy and record high gas prices. - Tim Moore
That's an arrogant note from Robert. Unless it's meant to be a joke. - Dennis Howlett
Man, Twitter users are sensitive! I think they were just describing a weakness in their architecture because of an unanticipated phenomenon. No blame. That is the thing about these apps. You don't know if or how they will be used until after you build them. - Seth Gottlieb
I would love to see the Twitter welcoming party. With their knuckle-dusters at the ready ;¬D - Jake Fudge
Robert, would you please read that Q&A - at no point is the word blame used. One of two things is going on here: either you have a persecution complex that is seriously affecting your ability to process information properly or you have spent the last few hours happily feeding this meme that you are to blame just so that you will be the centre of everyones attention. I'd be happy to hear which it is. - Scott O'Raw
The problem is, Seth, that those of us who have been part of building these systems, maintaining them, and tuning know you do not say these things in public. You alienate your userbase which is a no-no with Service management. They could have blamed all the IM users and it would have been the same thing. Users should never be perceived as a problem of any kind. - Bwana McCall
They should perhaps aim their guns at desired features that would prevent people from having to run scripts. - Jody C
Robert, if anything, your exploits and people's ruminations about them are always entertaining! :-) - Christine Cavalier
Their office may crash, if your Twitter friends follow you there ;) - Joni Moilanen
So, ya going to go? :} - Aaron Myers
wont hurt to carry a 'piece'! - Bhaskar Vijay Singh
I don't think they were trying to blame top users, they were just saying that is the reason it's down. Obviously, twitter should have planned for users have large followings and tweeting everyone, but they didn't. So now, people who do have a large following are slowing down the site. It's not blame, it's the truth and hopefully they get their act together and fix it. - Natitude
Bwana -- "you do not say these things in public?" There isn't enough space on FF to disagree with you, so I'll just ask if you realize the IRONY involved in you saying this when we're talking about Mr. Naked Conversations, a.k.a. Mr. Corporate Transparency, a.k.a. Mr. Employees Should Blog. - Karim
How do we know it's truth? There's no proof, we don't have exposure to their internals. A couple of weeks ago it was "We don't know what's wrong", now it's "Our top users are pounding the database". This is a big reason why you don't say these things in public. They may believe in their heart of hearts that this is the issue, but performance tuning is extremely tricky, and very often your first ideas are not the issue. - Bwana McCall