http://blamescoble.com/blog Social Media, Blogging, Microblogging, technology, internet geekery Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As is no doubt well covered, Twitter has been without the "replies" feature for some time tonight. So, now what? I realized within a few minutes that the main reason I spend any time on Twitter is to check the replies tab. Yes, I push stuff out there, everyone does; but ... http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/24/twitter-without-replies/ While Twitter is weathering WWDC, Summize's WWDC coverage is giving a "500 Server Error" page, as of this writing. A prettier way to see WWDC updates from Twitter is Twistori/#wwdc, which seems to be running fine. UPDATE: Perhaps I spoke too soon; Twitter has been having a few troubles; but, it's back ... http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/09/wwdc-casualty-summize/ WWDC was evidently creating quite a load on Twitter... you might have noticed that the Replies tab was actually disabled for a while this morning (I was not quick enough to grab a screenshot; oh well). Wait... replies? Yes. I guess they're optional. That said, it is working now, and twitter seems ... http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/09/replies-are-optional/ If you're interested in trying out the Ping.fm service, which allows you to update multiple microblog-type sites in one fell swoop, you may want to visit the Ping.fm sign up page, and use the code "tastyping". I'm not sure yet if I will be using this much; I rarely want to ... http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/09/pingfm-invite-code/ Jeffro reports there are new Twitter limitations on following and updating. I'd echo yes, this seems like a good idea. So far, my feeling is still that Twitter's core user base will not abandon ship while they are fixing their architecture and in other ways resolving their issues. A bad sign for ... http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/09/new-twitter-limitations/ I like FriendBinder so far. The ability to see all my people's updates from different sites in a plain chronological list is very cool. What I'm missing is the interaction... I can see any and all updates in status people have made, things they've written... but to actually comment on ... http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/06/friendbinder-sends-you-away/ Read/Write Web talks about noise... Link http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/06/on-noise/ Mashable reports Twitter is working on groups. I'd welcome this feature; I predict, however, that we're going to hear a chorus asking why work on a new feature, given issues the service is already having? Then again, I wonder if people spending time only in groups, in smaller subsets of followers/followees, might ... http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/05/twitter-groups/ http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/05/discrepancies/ I'm telling you, this blog writes itself. http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/05/our-webserves-they-has-discrepancies/