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ChaCha Fance — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:53:03 -0000

I hate Twitter & would be happy to see it dead!

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Chris Shouse — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:25:58 -0000

You can always check your replies for twitter at www.summize.com in fact it is better because it shows your @ no matter where in the 140 characters your name is:)

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ajax — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:16:43 -0000

RIP twitter, at least they got their money before it jumped the shark.

lets hope FF get theirs

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EP — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:37:10 -0000

Twitter dead?. ThatÂ´s very naive.

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nafnosseb — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:23:31 -0000

This is sad. Twitter must fix its problems now. I think plurk is an inferior alternative and if they both have a large userbase then our microblogging will be fragmented between plurk and twitter. Also try not to smack me down too heavy-handedly if this is completely inaccurate, but it looks like Plurk's graphical interface is not suited to MIDs.

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is ruby on rails the problem? — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:56:25 -0000

I think all their problems are because their using RUBY ON RAILS. Isn't it?

A lot of people lately have been dissing Ruby ON Rails because it's so slow and has a lot of issues!

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dan90266 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:34:21 -0000

Twitter's life support system is probably more robust than many of us appreciate. They have a giant ecosystem of third party support, and I cannot believe that their infrastructure problems are insurmountable.

The key differentiator with FriendFeed is still the size limitation of a tweet. It lowers the level of anxiety that many people feel when posting their thoughts in a public forum.

Also, the size of the ongoing conversations on FriendFeed are really too much for me. I'm not following a lot of people, and I do need to limit my consumption of A-Listers, but when I go there it just seems like too much effort to try and keep up. With tweets, they are short, and it's the brevity that makes me feel like it's OK if some of them slip by unnoticed.

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Mark Pilatowski — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:52:25 -0000

Many of my associates and friends are abandoning Twitter for Plurk. Not too long ago these same people could not stop hyping Twitter. I like both platforms as they serve different purposes for me but if Twitter continues to have problems it might not be too long before I abandon it too. I really hope they get things fixed soon because I like it better than Plurk for some things.

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bryanbro — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:25:35 -0000

Twiiter is still king.

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Victoria — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:32:21 -0000

Twitter will remain, although perhaps some of those who are using it for purposes other than those for which it was intended might drift away. For example - Twitter was surely never meant as a replacement for RSS, to "announce" changes to your blog! I've spent a good few weeks trying out the obvious alternatives, and nothing does the mobile integration as well as Twitter, which was always its USP. FriendFeed is like Outlook, it shows you messages but it doesn't *replace* e-mail - it enables you to *use* e-mail - so as much as e-mail won't go away because of Outlook, Twitter won't go away because of FriendFeed.

And yeah, that reply thing was weird. But I've been replying successfully throughout the week on SocialThing, which I happen to think is much better than FriendFeed and will wipe the floor with it as soon as its out of private beta.

In other news, what happened to claimid.com?

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Eduardo — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:58:38 -0000

After the collapse of twitter I moved on to Plurk (http://plurk.com) and I am very happy with it. The interface is difficult at first, but aftere a few minutes you understand how great it is. Fantastic tool

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Shazzer — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:34:25 -0000

Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't understand how anyone would find FriendFeed to be a reasonable substitute for Twitter. They are two completely different animals.

Then again, perhaps part of Twitter's scalability issues are that lots people use it as a content-aggregation service...something it really wasn't ever intended to be. If those folks all migrate over FriendFeed...Twitter will rebound nicely for those who actually use it to microblog.

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GeekMommy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:26:38 -0000

Twitter will survive... it just won't be the "golden child" anymore. Facebook didn't kill MySpace - but you sure have different user bases there.

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Sharon Bray-McPherson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:14:45 -0000

Hmm, I remember people saying that eBay would never make it when it first started, because of "downtime issues".

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BillyWarhol — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:09:19 -0000

Twitter is like MicroPOOP Windoze too Large an installed User Base to Bite the Dust* Actually the A-Listers who are biotching are the same ones that Ballooned Twitter in the 1st Place*

Now Nobody Blogs anymore!!

;)) Peace*

I do like FriendFeed tho + even Pownce looks Nicer*

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Steve — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:05:47 -0000

Twitter will rebound in a few months.