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Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

jna — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:53:58 -0000

You leaving twitter and getting others to leave twitter will make twitter look better and appear to function faster.

It'll be less load on the servers and less for everyone else to deal with. Nice going!

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

webomatica — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:37:53 -0000

I also hope they can figure it out. It would really be sad if they "snatched victory from the jaws of defeat" in that their service can't technically support the increasing number of folks that want to use it.

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

flammable — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:15:24 -0000

Build it yourself:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/asideshop

I'm still working out a way to update via SMS, but it looks like it'll be a WP plugin that grabs items from RSS and inserts them into WP. Then, I'll just use a Twitter account for the SMS updates (which are infrequent, luckily). :)

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

Eric Berlin — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:18:48 -0000

I'm getting pretty frustrated with the outages too -- hope they get their scaling issues under control one of these days

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

clint — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:43:04 -0000

Perhaps I have a hidden motive ;)

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

webomatica — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:24:03 -0000

Heh. And your earth shatterinly wonderful tweets aren't a big draw for me to
stay :)

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

clint — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:22:58 -0000

Have fun! Twitter will probably be a better place without you :)

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

Voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:24:01 -0000

I probably won't follow your all-out boycott either. I am planning to blog about next week's Twit-Out thing by Sunday, depending on when I get a chance to blog. Since I use twhirl at home and HelloTxt when I'm away, Twitter outages just mean a few updates get lost on Twitter but show up on Pownce and Jaiku. Since FriendFeed pulls all three services into my feed, nothing is lost unless all three of them are down (which has never happened yet).

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

webomatica — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:23:50 -0000

Thanks - i'll mention the one day twitter boycott too. But a big reason why I'm okay with leaving Twitter temporarily is because I have FriendFeed - my cojones are not that big.

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

shey — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:41:40 -0000

Good luck to you man, I hope they fix the issues soon. I don't have the balls to leave Twitter for good.

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

webomatica — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:25:03 -0000

Totally agree. And if that distributed solution comes from Twitter
themselves, more power to 'em.

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

n8k99 — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:11:26 -0000

i don't think i'll be following this action, as there are numerous services which i have tied together via the whole twitter exchange, but i would like to see serious action on anyone's part to distribute the twitter service so that it is not contingent upon official Twitter servers to operate.

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

smbeebe — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:24:14 -0000

Friendfeed FTW! w00t!

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

webomatica — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:14:09 -0000

Nice to see you smbeebe. FriendFeed o rama!

Re: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

smbeebe — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:09:54 -0000

Wow, you're very serious about Twit-Out boycott! Well, I am very glad to see you over on Friendfeed! http://friendfeed.com/susanbeebe