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Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

Amanda — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:47:05 -0000

Since June I am not using Twitter at all. But this microblog is missing its importance to me.

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

delfuego — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:00:25 -0000

Why should users trust their Twitter passwords to Twitabit? Am I the only person that's not only concerned about this -- typing my password for site A into site B -- but also concerned that Twitabit doesn't even have a privacy policy that could *help* me be OK with this?

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

Steffest — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:32 -0000

My thought also: setting up a service that relies on the downtime of another service is weird enough, but doing so when such a backup service already exists is double weird !

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

Fred Brunel — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:17:57 -0000

Ah right, nice.

It's seems they only support 1 function of the Twitter API so it's not a complete proxy. Most 3rd party app can't route only 1 function call a different URL — or do they "map" other URL back to the Twitter API?

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

Ken Hudak — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:02 -0000

I think it's a great redundant layer - mainly for the recipients of information from Twitter. I say that because many of us rely on the folks at conferences and such to be tweeting breaking news on the fly. So instead of a posters original thought being lost, it's just queued in TwitAbit!

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:12:38 -0000

That is the Twitter API. They do support it. Look again.

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

Fred Brunel — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:50:37 -0000

That's interesting but I think it's not that usefull until they natively support the Twitter API; so that 3rd party tools can post directlty to twitabit.com (acting as a proxy).

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

Kaspar K. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:42:48 -0000

or use http://twiddict.com :)

Re: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)

Dr Todd Fiegel — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:19:54 -0000

Thanks for the lead, Dave. Sad, though, when a service that is so popular repeatedly goes down and others have to rise to fill the void. Still, that others do rise is a real credit to their innovation.

See you on Twitter.

@DrTodd
http://www.MapYourAptitude.com

P.S. Also a Wisconsin alum & your age. We probably cafeteria-trayed down Bascom Hill during the same snowstorms. :-) Go Bucky!