A local tele-vision station appeals to Citizen Journalists, in reference to this lovely story- Police: NJ man purposely vomited on Phillies fans
WUXTRY! WUXTRY! Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Melissa Dribben does not use Twitter!
With this being the dead middle of August in a city that virtually shuts down during this period, this news gets space in the Sunday edition of the paper.
And, with this being the Inquirer, the online version of the story gets angry comments. Commenter ‘ppsaq,’ why don’t you start us off?
Melissa – You are among the first of many literate and learned people who will finally have the guts to proclaim “where’s the beef” and “there’s no ‘there’ there” regarding Twitter. It is brain chewing gum for dimwits who are incapable of writing more than 140 characters, and even that severely taxes their mental capabilities. It represents the ultimate in the dumbing down of America. So, you are not lagging behind the hordes. You are out in front revealing Twitter for what it is – just as the phoniness of Obama is being revealed every single day.
Blah, blah, high horse stuff about twitter and then BAM! Agenda! Brandon215, a rebuttal?
This is kind of funny because part of your criticism of the micro blogging in some of the social networks is the self centeredness of the “read me” type posts. But we can intpret your opinion and column in the same way. And it was way over 140 characters. Think about that as well and your approach to communicating with people.
Interesting, interesting. Ppsaq, you have 140 characters, response?
brandon215 is the prototypical Twitter dimwit. Uh, now brandon215, that’s pro-to-typ-i-cal. Take your time, and send me a Tweet if you need any help looking it up. And, don’t hold your breath.
You went over, but the judges will let it slide. Brandon215?
ppasq – I don’t use twitter. Your making assumptions and calling me a dimwit. I don’t use twitter and I am an executive a a very large corporation. If you need a j-o-b you can look me up.
Wait- we have someone else, VanessaJ, obviously an expert on internet marketing-
At this moment Twitter is a pretty useless interactive tool, besides letting your followers know that you just farted, the application itself is in the first inning of a nine inning game. As soon as Twitter figures out how to integrate its services and becomes more like a news, information and or enterainment channel with credible rich content e.g. (video, photos, audio) it will be remain a trend were any moron and post idiotic short messages.
Yes, much like comment threads on news articles. Ppsaq, a response for both of these?
VanessJ – Similar comment I had for brand215. Only besides being a dimwit, you are stupid. That’s “stu-pid,” just like all of the other ones, including The Inquirer, who christened The Great One. He is a joke. That “joh-ohke,” VanessaJ.
brandon215 – Why would I want a job from “an executive of a very large corporation” who doesn’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your.” I am head of my own thriving business. I don’t need a job from a very large corporation of dimwits who don’t know their grammar. And that’s not “grandma.”
Alright, who else wants to chime in?
tweet, tweet lol
I can’t wait until twitter crashes and burns in a firey financial death
Twitter was great until it #failed during the DoS attack on Thursday. I could not tweet via SMS and it blocked many of the API clients and web posts using Firefox. This is the beginning of the end.
Wait- you used a hashtag in your news article comment about Twitter? Please step away from the TweetDeck, son.
i think its hilarous that some people actually think people care what they are currently doing, haha, these people for the most part are concided losers
See also- THE REST OF THE GODDAMNED INTERNET.
Melissa– You nailed it. twitter is pablum for the thumbs.
It is also balderdash, folderol and hooey.
I will be posting a link to this post on my twitter. You’re welcome for my just TOTALLY BLOWING YOUR MIND.
Twitter is a microblogging platform that lets people post short “status updates” online in tiny 140-character bursts. I like it because it lets me get out brief, pithy thoughts that aren’t quite worth an entire blogpost or that tread too closely to the “talking about yourself is a no-no” guideline that I set up in my head a few years back for my personal blog. It’s also one of the prime examples of Web 2.0 wherein it offers a platform for expression and very little else. Its growth has been meteoric, with something like nineteen bazillion active members online at any one time, thus causing the usual growing pains, with the past week or so featuring a few outages and disabled features while the development team attempts to scale up their operations to match the new masses using the service.
Twitter is, it should be noted, free to use. This is why people display an extraordinary amount of vitriol and condescension in the comments for a recent post apologizing for the downtime and explaining what’s happened.
Joe Manna shoots out of the gate with some hard technical questions:
Why can’t twitter just purchase the equipment and get the OC-12s they need? Didn’t you folks just raise $15M in funding?
I strongly suggest twitter sets up geo-located Co-Lo’s around the world and the states.
Basically, West Coast, Midwest, East Coast locations. Then make the twitter servers round-robin from their localized server to other ones. So at least outages can be isolated to regions instead of the whole service.
It’s frustrating that when I finally give Twitter a chance, your servers bite the dust.
Yes, Joe. I’m sure they’re very sorry that the world is missing out on your taco-eating updates and will take your advice as the impetus to immediately launch into action.
David gives one of those “If I were…” comments that make me want that throat-chopping-over-IP technology even more:
if i were an investor, i’d be asking to see your tech department’s letters of resignation right about now.
He’s joined by someone who knows where they can find a sudden replacement for the tech-void David’s suggestion would create:
Time to just go to Wall Street and hire a real database person from Bloomberg or Reuters – someone that knows how to move massive amounts of data in short-form.
It’s obvious that the SF/SV engineers are not up to the task. Hire someone that is up to the task and get this shit done.
Yes. Silicon Valley and San Francisco engineers don’t know how to GIT-R-DUN.
Hang on! Erazmus has a fantastic idea:
Enough already. How about monetize this thing? Some of us would actually pay for a working Twitter.
That $19 is going to go a long ways towards fixing this problem, I’m sure.
Oh, hey, someone’s about to talk about the competition!
dear twitter. i’ve had enough of your on again / off again attitude. i’m leaving you for friendfeed. all the cool kids are making the switch. sorry. you fail.
As a cool kid, I can assure you this is not the case.
Kiki has an analogy I don’t quite understand:
I don’t pay to vote, either, yet I’ll certainly complain when that’s flawed, too. But I’m not going to leave the country on account of it, and I’m not giving up on Twitter, either.
The Mad Doctor is a materials scientist in Silicon Valley and has some ideas:
Break down and do a few things with the VC funding:
(1) Hire a systerm architect.
(2) Hire someone who has worked with large databases and rapid data transfer.You could recruit for (2) at SLAC which, until Google, was moving the most data in the world the fastest. Maybe they still do. And, they just had a layoff!
I digress (and yes, I was at SLAC from 2002-2004; great people, great place.)
(3) If you haven’t already, get rid of that silly toy known as Ruby on Rails. It’s shite.
It’s amazing how someone can make a fine, fine argument and undo it completely with a hackneyed Britishism they picked up in their college theater classes.
Chris Thomson is emo:
Good luck with getting Twitter back up. Oh, but then it’ll probably crash again.
This pretty much sums up how Twitter’s been working lately:
http://twitter.com/_evan/statuses/819151648
Is there an emoticon for hanging yourself because a free internet service isn’t working over a holiday weekend when you should be fucking off with your friends? I hope so!
For some reason, I hear Ward Cleaver when I read this comment:
I have never seen a tech company have so many failures and outages than Twitter. People will only put up with it for so long.
Finally, a suggestion from the staff here at GOTI. Visit Whentwitterisdown.com. It can help.
