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gerikson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:17:12 -0000

It was down most of the afternoon here (CET).

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ethan kaplan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:41:00 -0000

it was on CSI last night.

Rails and network television != scaling? :)

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donpark — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:22:44 -0000

HTTP GET if available, otherwise use a feed-to-sms bridging service. Client's incapable of 'relaying' updates between feeds simply shouldn't but throwing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi subnet into the mix could be interesting.

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Nick Johnson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:25:10 -0000

I'm sure you could build something on feedtree (http://www.feedtree.net/) with little to no effort .

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Havagan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:33:30 -0000

If you're running Greasemonkey in Firefox you can use a quick script to hyperlink all the @ values until twitter fixes the UI.

(The below is taken from http://userscripts.org/scri... with just the URL modified)

var regex = /@(\w*)/g;
var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
var content = elements[i];
var text = content.innerHTML;
if (text.indexOf("@") < 0) {
continue;
}
content.innerHTML = text.replace(regex, "@$1");
}

Re: Is Twitter down? (Scripting News)

gerikson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:45:26 -0000

Re: the proposed Twitter replacement, how would you be able to update it on a mobile?

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Dario Salvelli — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:42:13 -0000

The bug about @ there is again..i hope that will be fixed! ;)

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TDavid — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:29:07 -0000

Until the twitter crew gets this hyperlink bug fixed, and for Firefox users, I created a Firefox extension which will add the hyperlinks back on twitter.com, details here:
http://www.makeyougohmm.com...

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dave — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:12:25 -0000

Wouldn't be hard to do, it';s basically what we had working in 2002 in Radio 8.

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fanless — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:59:13 -0000

Yeah, and what was the name of the guy that started blogger...?

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donpark — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:52:19 -0000

I've been thinking the same lately, sort of a p2p [almost] realtime feed network. hmm. fp2fp network?

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dave — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:02:35 -0000

Thanks for the update Jack, and glad to hear that the at-sign feature is coming back.

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dave — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:02:09 -0000

What I was talking about was not like any of the existing systems because they are all centralized. It's not necessary, it's just easier. But centralization is vulnerable. The tradeoff is that if you have to install software on your desktop that's more for the user to worry about.

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hardaway — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:42:12 -0000

It is certainly an integral part of my communications, and I get bummed when it goes down. Are you talking about something like what Pownce has? Pownce never appears to go down (although I hardly ever use it, so maybe I wouldn't know).

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Jack Dorsey — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:25:54 -0000

Dave,

We had some database issues which unexpectedly took us down for a bit. We've identified the issue, and should be up and speedy again now.

The @username linking is a bug we're working on fixing right now. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Rachel — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:02:33 -0000

http://twitter.com/twitter_... is usually pretty good at telling you things are broken, like the @ links

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Duncan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:22:43 -0000

Complete down, as in cant even get a Twitter down page up at Twitter.com. Has been for the better part of 30 mins as I write this.

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P.W. Fenton — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:14:07 -0000

I think eagerness to comment on the debates has brought it down.

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Geoff — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:13:51 -0000

Twitter reminds me off the pre-google blogger.com years . Servers up and down all the time :-)

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Robert 'Groby' Blum — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:02:49 -0000

Seems down for me, too. (L.A.) From a quick traceroute, it seems like their routers aren't responding. It's interesting that their packets are routed through a ton of L3 facilities before arriving, too.

And it's been down since at least 4:30 - this doesn't bode well.