Is this from the You Suck at Photoshop guys? - Vince DeGeorge
donnie is back today, maybe the competition made him show up again - Dobromir Hadzhiev
"what email?" "you just powered off the exchange server" "just the letter a" "don't use aol" "salesforce.com was on the right testicle" - Ranjit Mathoda
That was a good use of ten minutes. I'm smiling again. - Russellreno
Ok, after watching the new YSAP - This is much much better - flavor of the week to be sure. - Vince DeGeorge
that's brilliant. and i'm about ti run out of battery power here, and I won't bookmark, adn I'll probably 4get about these guys 4eva. what a shame!!! - john conroy
You mean he rebooted the webserver without submitting a Change Request Application with work procedure and rollback steps to the Change Advisory Board for review at their next weekly meeting? ;-) - Stuart Woodward
:)) I was getting very frustrated with FF's best of the day page, showing mostly meta-links about FF itself all the time. And then this. Once in a while, there is one single link that makes all these page loads worth it :) - Yaniv Golan
LMAO for most of the 10 min. Will fwd to several IT peeps I know...and maybe a few peeps at Twitter. Wonder if they'll think it's funny. - Cathryn Hrudicka
The realism of this thing is just awe-inspiring. That techie behave pretty much like any techie I've ever encountered who's been asked to do a stupid task. And the sales dude is lethally real too. This is Dilbert meets The Office on steroids. Thanks for the link. - Roy Blumenthal via twhirl
maybe a 302 temp redirect to friendfeed, people need to communicate what do u know - Dobromir Hadzhiev via twhirl
Now if someone hacked the Something is Wrong page to redirect to FF, that would be something - Kevin Bondelli
That page should just re-direct users to FriendFeed automatically....save me a click! - Susan Beebe
"Looking for Something is Technically Wrong? Try www.xyzzy.com" "Something is Technically Wrong - now 50% off!!! (click here)" "Something is Technically Wrong - Now with FREE SHIPPING" "Discount on Something is Technically Wrong, no prescription required" "Widest Selection on Something is Technically Wrong" "Something is Technically Wrong - Safe, Proven, Guaranteed Quality" "50+ Flavors of Something is Technically Wrong to choose from - Factory Direct" - Karim
some kind of homeostatic equilibrium. if they're down, they make gazillions and buy new servers. then they're up and continue to grow until the new downtime... - benedikt
I cannot believe how unreliable it is being!!!! But it manages to fool http://istwitterdown.com/... it says no but I still cannot connect to it!!!!! - Paolo Barone
what's funny is that since i made "twitter come back" - it's been down more than ever - driving more people to my music video! :) - Allen Stern
Well it's down, and yet it's not down. I can't reach the pages properly, but I don't get time-outs either. Just a blank page. - Rosana Kooymans
it seems to happen around 4:30 / 5 or so (EST) - Tim Broder
it is down and not working for me. sux - Photo Larry
It's down BECAUSE you weren't on it. It needs your tweets to survive. - Louis Gray
I am trying...just keeps erroring out - Photo Larry
As much as I haven't really cared all that much about an hour here or there, it is starting to get to the point where I expect it is down, and that is very bad for Twitter. Now I come to friendfeed to talk with people rather than Twitter. I hope they can get things solved quickly. - Caleb Elston
is boycotting twitter today cuz it wont work - Photo Larry
i already thought you tried to export your followers to friendfeed or something … - kosmar
@kosmar yea I found an import tool so guess no big loss. Just was starting to like twitter and its been down 2 days now so its annoying me - Photo Larry
scobleizer, okay - though, tell the guys at friendfeed thats their big opportunity now ;-) - michael h
One benefit of the Twit-Out. I didn't know until now (3:00 pm PDT) that Twitter went down today. My life is more peaceful as a result. - Ontario Emperor
If FriendFeed goes down today... guess who we're blaming? - Vince DeGeorge
I was gonna be a dick and go to twitter to say I didn't hear about the twit-out on twitter but on a blog (note: useless use of the internet), but it was down, so now I can be all smug and whatnot and go back to doing stuff. Well, that, and talking about Twitter on Friendfeed and how we are using Friendfeed for this. And you WONDER why no one makes money? Cuz we are retards, srlsy. - Eric Rice
Yes, the glitches and outages are getting worse, not better. And it's driving activity over to Friendfeed. Which is not a bad thing, except for Twitter. They have several weeks at most to fix this before leading users start abandoning it. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Couldn't agree more. It's super-frustrating! I wouldn't have tried FriendFeed if not for Twitter outages. I was using Friendfeed as an aggregator but may have to start using it for Twitter style needs as well. - Mario Sundar
I agree with Dion, except that I don't think Twitter has several weeks. They may have a few at the very most. I love Twitter and I'm almost ready to jump ship. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl
we just need more third party to FF to make it really usable in more cases. - kosmar via twhirl
There are tremendous threats to mindshare and usage when data / conversations can quickly be picked up in other platforms without skipping a beat. Flow is the new portability. - Chris Rechtsteiner
How long are we patient with Twitter? Why stick with it? Why not use something which WORKS! - Andrea B
@Dion Hinchcliffe: "They have several weeks at most to fix this..." How long have people been saying that? I think it's going to take more than occasional downtime (even daily) to cause a mass migration to another service. The size of Twitter's userbase gives it a huge advantage over the other services, even those that are technologically superior. I think there's a chance for a decentralized Twitter-like concept to take over, though. - Matthew Gifford
All these down times would have helped Jaiku if they had open sign-ups and a U.S. shortcode. I am surprised they haven't taken advantage. Ah.. another friendster swallowed by Google. - Erik Weese
Man this is crazy!! It's been down twice today and there isn't even any big breaking news...maybe they should just sell themselves to Google for the sake of keeping the service relevant. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl
@Erik Weese: Jaiku is dead. And even if it weren't, I don't think it would gain much from Twitter going down. I don't see many people calling for a move to Pownce or FriendFeed, either. - Matthew Gifford
@Devlin There was an announcement of some scheduled maintenance last night. Maybe they were updating the Something's Wrong graphics and this is just the follow up testing. - Kevin D. White
AM giving a presentation on Twitter at SES Toronto and I really hope Twitter solves its issues by then or there won't be much to talk about. - Lee Odden
They're in the process of porting Jaiku to Google App Engine. Whether it ever turns into anything when that process is complete remains to be seen. - Chris Johnson
I just think this post is funny... esp the last line. - Dan Delphin via twhirl
The network effect has well and truly kicked in. People talking about "a few weeks left" for Twitter are dreaming. Nobody is leaving Twitter any time soon, though I agree that the stability of the service in general has been woeful for a long time now. - Jamie
hopefully users will stay around long enough to see the site work again :\ - Chris Jones via twhirl
Honestly, what is the real alterative? If there was one, don't you think people would have moved? - Dan Delphin via twhirl
I am still in a fog as to why Twitter doesn't provide some kind of definitive answers for the outages. They are obvious are aware of the fan base and have to know that the majority of us are pissed of. I keep harking back to the interview I saw the "Twitter guys" do with Shel Israel and they kept taking about improving "reliability". WTF!?!?!?!!?!!?! - James via Alert Thingy
" If Twitter had more communication when there are unexpected issues, I think users would be more understanding. " - A. Stern - James via Alert Thingy
they posted on their blog and they have a getsatisfaction.com site - Chris Jones via twhirl
Michael Thanks for the heads up on the hotel (everyone seems to miss that this was the MOST important part of this message, hope you're feeling better). I'm looking for some context. I want to see what's happening to both traffic and new accounts as these 'hiccups' occur on Twitter. Why throw 'blame' around without any facts? 2.0 is allowing things to accelerate and change amplitude at such unanticipated rates that all 'normal' planning is next to useless. - Rotkäpchen
So apparently, they had a database failure... at least that's what they are saying at Getsatisfaction.com - Dan Delphin via twhirl
when in doubt blame the database! I can't believe they would only have one backup on hand though, seems very unlikely for a company of that scale (even if they are that small) - Chris Jones
Boy I'm glad I was staying at the Westin last week then. Nasty stuff, food poisoning. - Dickie Adams
One has to wonder how many times Twitter's users will put up with this... my guess is "not much longer" if things don't change drastically, and soon. - Lee Goolsbee
I'm curious, why don't people just migrate to FF or Pownce or some other reliable service instead of putting up with it? I don't use Twitter that much but it seems to me it's like a giant bee hive, so if you just move the queen bee (I guess that's Robert Scoble - no offense) the rest of the hive will follow. - Michael Pardee
twitter is still down. @michael Pardee people will follow the community and its catalyst. - Sean Scott
@Michael Pardee - I already have quit twitter (like the ryhme of that) and am using FF exclusively. - Jason Kaneshiro
Amen, brother. I hate 'em. Can't skim 'em, have to endure the whole thing. Blah. - Chris Kasten
Generally my feeling, but I'll be a bit more optimistic. Some people are actually decent speakers, and their comments are interesting. But investing the time to figure that out? Oy! - Hutch Carpenter
When video (and audio) is as easy to search and manipulate as text, this won't be a problem. But right now I can't quote two seconds of a video (although I guess you can start a video from a certain point in some situations). - Ontario Emperor
Video comments are dumb although I'm not so sure that means people won't use them. Sadly. There's very little point to them, as far as I can tell and I can't imagine really ever watching any - who has the time to figure out if the content is interesting?? - felix
Thing is: we still don't all get decent bandwith. And that does make a huge difference. - Alex von Halem
I can see them being useful if your blog is read only by a close group of friends... but still. - engtech
The video discussion community is pretty different than us carpal tunnel sufferers. I have nothing against video commenting but it's gonna be a challenge bridging the two media. - Shey
Video comments with some speech-to-text technology thrown in would be nice. I enjoy seeing people and the interaction, but being able to read through the comment first would be nice. - Vince DeGeorge
That's a good idea, Vince. Best of both worlds, provided that you have sufficient bandwidth. - Ontario Emperor
I hope no one uses them. That way when I do mine will stick out like a sore thumb. :-) - Robert Scoble
engtech: The usage barrier is getting low enough now that you can do it in place with a browser and more laptops have a Webcam. I'm guessing they'll be standard fare soon enough though probably won't be as popular as text comments. - Dion Hinchcliffe via twhirl
The problem with video comments is I can't view those at work. By the time I get home, I'd have forgotten about them. - Morton Fox
I can think of a couple of good uses for them, and thinking of trying it out on my next project. - Joshua Galloway
Good call Vince -- maybe a Jott / Seesmic collab? - Shey
Here's a company that does STT for YouTube and the like, no reason they couldn't do it - http://search.everyzing.com/. They actually license the tech from here: http://www.bbn.com/, so there are possibilities of someone starting their own. - Vince DeGeorge
put a video camera on people and they turn into complete idiots or wannabe actors. even more than usual. - rambn
I just hope enough people read it. I killed a few of my friendfeed streams for the exact reasons you cited - why duplicate. My dilemma is now centered around Twitter. I use one of those services to tweet my blog posts, but I also have my blog posts show up as a stream. Duplicate? Yes. But I have some friendfeed friends who aren't on twitter. What to do. - Ross McKillop
I discovered i was duplicating so I corrected that. - Russellreno
Comes back to why we need one social community! - Phil Ashman
Excellent point. I will be cleaning mine up momentarily. - Rob Diana
I became more acutely aware of the duplication issue after joing FF. The only duplication I have left is cross-posting blog to Twitter. However, I think that is justified because I suspect I have different readers on each channel. - Andy C
I now feel foolish that I commented on this post on the actual website. How stupid of me to not use FriendFeed instead... ...via AlertThingy - elroy
It happens a lot here, some people shares everything in several services and all of them show up in their streams in FF. I understand why people promote their blog posts in Twitter, but sharing the same thing in StumbleUpon, gReader, delicious, etc? - Alejandro S.
I've been thinking about a "managed lifestream" app. Like FF except instead of all things going public, they go into a queue where you approve which go into the stream. Defeats the purpose of lifestreaming for most people obviously, but seems like there's room for a middle-ground between blogging and lifestreaming - Jeremy Raines
@Alejandro that bugs me, too. I'm noting who exactly did the stumbling, deliciousing of a blog post. If it's someone other than the blogger, that's a plus, if it's the blogger themselves, it's just noise, and I don't appreciate it. - Jason Kaneshiro
@Alejandro and Jason - I add blogs that link to me to del.icio.us to track coverage, and on rare occasions, I'll add my own posts to del.icio.us, as so far, that's the only way I can find out "who" bookmarked it. I can't search del.icio.us to find out, so it does look odd. Also, sharing via Google Reader does a few things: Adding to the link blog, and contributing to RSSMeme, ReadBurner, etc. - Louis Gray
I dabbled in blogging mid last year, but all it was really was my attempt at a lifestream before I ever heard of services like Friendfeed. I did end up crossing the streams at times. It never felt comfortable since I didnt want to spam. At the same time though I kept thinking "I have differents sets of friends on twitter, stumbleupon, pownce, ect. How else can I make sure they all see it?" Now ofcourse that could be solved if just everyone who friend/follows me on all those different services would just use friendfeed instead, and I post different types of things to different services. But I can't expect everyone to use friendfeed just because I ask. I'm sure it will all sort itself out one way or another - Tony Miller
FF could make this easier and 'collapse' multiple items into one i.e. if I share something from Google Reader and bookmark it on delicious, only one item should appear in FF. I wonder if FF is too focused on where we doing things rather than what we're doing? - Andy Davies
what I'm saying is that, if you add the same links to 2 different services, there's no need to add both services to FF. Just one would be enough. Of course, if there are things that are unique for each one of them, it's understandable. - Alejandro S.
Great article and nice reference to Ghostbusters. I'm guilty of crossing my streams. That's because I'm a mega-consumer of my own streams, so I keep them all completely connected (borrowing term from graph theory). But in terms of output, only a few things get crossed. Overall, I think redundancy is good, but I can also see that it can be annoying too. - Mike Reynolds
@ Andy I second the idea that FF could have an option to hide dupes. Dupes also makes it harder to choose which one to "like" on FF. Say I "like" a blogger's post. Do I comment "like" on the original one, or the delicious link, or the twitter link? Obviously the original post would be best, but the way it's set up now, one has to page through all the dupes to find it. - Jason Kaneshiro
