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Re: Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering... (Scripting News)

C.Miller — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:22:56 -0000

Problem is that there are humans depending on it.

Re: Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering... (Scripting News)

Sebastian — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:31:14 -0000

Jaiku does similar things like Twitter, but it's definitely not a clone that does exactly the same and supports all the applications.

Re: Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering... (Scripting News)

Offbeatmammal — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:02:37 -0000

I think they're moving ISP so the extended downtime would be to ensure no data loss (I guess)
... it's either that or try to sync the two and probably generate more complaints ;)

At least they're doing it late Sunday night now (sorry rest of the world... it's all about America!)

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Will — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:52:37 -0000

Looking for a twitter clone... I assume you heard of Jaiku. You know, the twitter clone that Google bought.

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Roger R. — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:49:10 -0000

"but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working."

If you depend on a service like twitter, you need to get out more.

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Scott — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:33:33 -0000

I have been thinking for a while about doing this with a friend. Hit me up at breakall@NOSPAMgmail.com and let me know what your thoughts on this are.

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Tim — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:33:57 -0000

Looks now like they decided to do the right thing (probably due to feedback, heh) and have re-scheduled their downtime for 10pm to 2am PST Sunday evening. Much better choice I think. :)

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Matt Harwood — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:56:23 -0000

Probably done in the day as they know us geeks are mostly up using it at the "dead hour" 2am.

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pwfenton — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:06:31 -0000

No such requirement. You are confusing Twitter with some other service... maybe "Quechup".

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knewman — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:50:29 -0000

And now T-Mobile is apparently blocking subscribers from sending txt messages to Twitter.

http://getsatisfaction.com/...

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Digeratist — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:35:37 -0000

I don't understand the appeal of Twitter yet, and probably won't ever if their requirement for finding other people is to give them my password so they can scan my email account. Not cool.

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Guest — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:24:16 -0000

Talking of clones, I've got a few, but focused on some real important issues:

www.HelpWorldClimate.com
www.HelpWorldPoverty.com
www.HelpWorldPeace.com
www.HelpWorldWildlife.com

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allen stern — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:46:05 -0000

Dave - it's called Twitterdiction and from what I can tell, you have it. I've worked up a post that might help to explain the disease and some help. :)
http://www.centernetworks.c...

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KMTO — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:35:49 -0000

Ok, it's about a new ISP. However, the night of Dec 31 would be better - even to avoid tons of twitters with the same content ;-) But if it leads to a new clone (maybe in europe) it would be perfect!

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btucker — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:24:19 -0000

It's things like this when I hope it becomes clear just why centralization sucks. Why are we relying on a single company to be the basis of a communication medium? My answer would be that it makes it easy, with a low barrier to entry. But I would propose this is a solved problem.

I've been working on and off on a little open source side-project called OpenConvo. It doesn't have a website yet, or any releasable code, but here's the basic concept without going into too much technical detail:

* dead simple to install php script that sits on your server and provides your access point to the network
* Twitter API compatibility so you can seamlessly switch from Twitter to OpenCovo and your tweets will continue to flow to all your twitter followers (as well as you still getting the tweets of everyone you follow)
* each node would be able to host multiple people very easily. So if you have non-technical friends, you can host them.. or services could spring up to host people (a la wordpress.com)
* all data is exchanged with RSS + a simple pinging protocol
* following/follower relationships are represented in xfn and/or foaf

Anyway, I think I've worked out most of the technical details, but would love help to get this off the ground. Email me if you're interested in getting involved: ben AT btucker.net

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Corvida — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:52:35 -0000

My 2 cents?

If there's an UPGRADE going on, I really don't mind because it's long overdue for Twitter. Hopefully, this will have some perks at the end of the day.

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pwfenton — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:41:28 -0000

Do we need ANY form of entertainment? Twitter is personalized entertainment. I "follow" folks that I find interesting and/or entertaining. I follow Dave, for example, because I ENJOY getting a link to a picture of his Paris dessert... not because I NEED it. Would I be disappointed if I couldn't get it? Yes. But I could live without it... just not as enjoyably.

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Connie Bensen — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:39:11 -0000

Hey Dave,
We're moving to Pownce again for the outage. (one of these days the move may be final & where will Twitter be?) If you need a pownce invite I'm at conniebensen@gmail.com
And connect with me/us at http://www.pownce.com/Conni...

Re: Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering... (Scripting News)

Tom — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:38:16 -0000

If you check out some of the Twitter developers' feeds you can see what's going on. They're moving datacenters. Not the most obvious line of communication, but certainly better than nothing.

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Rachel Clarke — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:35:29 -0000

It's a data center move and apparently there are more customers outside the US than in the US,(http://twitter.com/ev/statu... so the timing is done for minimal disruption for the most customers. It was originally going to be 4 hours, then kept being extended.

But why they don't just put that on the blog to stop speculation I don't know. far easy to just say it.

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achernow — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:34:37 -0000

Meh.. Is it really a huge deal Twitter is going down? Is there not anything else that one has to do on a Saturday? At least they're doing it on a weekend. Though, they should probably use the methods we use in the broadcast world... There is a reason why if maintenance has to be done that requires going off the air, it's done at 2am on a Saturday/Sunday morning.

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Rob Bazinet — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:10:39 -0000

Do we really need Twitter anyway? I have been using it for a couple months now and still trying to see the value in it. It seems like a huge waste of time. Come on, how important are you that what you say any given minute really needs to be known by your pals? Try IM, that works.

Also, if you really needs something so you can get out that you are eating a truffle and having a $25 cup of coffee in Paris, try Pownce.

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Levi Figueira — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:09:42 -0000

First time I hear of a 12h dowtime for a data center change!!!!!

I've done that with (virtually) no downtime!!!
A little downtime could be needed for a service like Twitter, but... 12h???

Not a reason I hoped to hear, that's for sure...

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Levi Figueira — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:06:40 -0000

P2P Twitter? ;)

But don't use that name or the RIAA/MPAA will find a "good" reason to sue you!! :p

Re: Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering... (Scripting News)

c0d3w12 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:06:35 -0000

I've heard the same regarding the data center move. But never have I seen anything be done during customer productive hours. This could have been done @ night and early morning hours so the customer is not bothered.
But we must remember, this is a free service and there isn't ads so they can do what they want!