Twitter finally unbanned me!

August 1st, 2008 Comments

@Tibbon is back in action. After about ~5 hours of things being really odd (ie. banned from Twitter) and much bitching and complaining my account is all set. In the end it seems that myself @pfanderson, @davedelaney,  @conniecrosby and @pknit were deleted/banned. I’d really like to thank everyone for helping me out and trying to get the attention of the management at Twitter. As a very cool aftereffect of this, while I’m still following everyone (I see their updates), it shows that I’m following zero people. That’s the ultimate ratio! lol

I’d like to thanks everyone that noticed and helped complain (err, I mean use social media) to help:

I’m still curious as to what happened. The Status blog tells nothing. Companies should perhaps take this as a small lesson. If you’re twittering about watching a movie and having beer, and customer service complaints are racking up on twitter about your service… then things start to look bad. Your illusion of being ‘busy’ gets broken. I totally realize that all people and all companies deserve chill time, but just keep an eye on the customer service too.

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Twitter: Something is technically wrong

May 23rd, 2008 Comments

Step 1) Have great idea. Step 2) ????. Step 3) Profit! Apparently someone didn’t tell Twitter that Step 2 is “don’t fuck it up“. Twitter’s lack of stability and massive downtime lately has been pretty horrid. Rumors that they’ve gotten another 15M in funding are swirling around, but also rumors of technical incompetence there abound. Unlike somewhere such as 37Signals (or betahouse) they don’t have programming rockstars working for them it seems.

Yes, twitter has unique problems. They will require unique solutions. Until someone figures them out however, I think I’m going to back off using/caring about twitter. This is really sad. In the past year I’ve learned to love twitter. Yet, nonstop slowdowns, client bugs, downtime, etc have kinda killed it for me.

Maybe their goal and monetization plan is to get everyone hooked, claim that they can’t keep it up without charging for it, and then get everyone to pay since they are addicted like Crack. I think they’ll hop to Pownce instead. Speaking of, why doesn’t Pownce have similar problems?

Maybe they need to write the program in pure Ruby, or maybe they need to use a “faster” language like Java or C++ to write it. The rails community will surely cry if it comes to this, but it will likely be needed.

But either way, someone wake me up when Twitter has some degree of stability. Until then, I think I’ll just have to be out of the loop.

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