Over the past 24 hours, the service we’ve all come to love (and hate) named Twitter has entered bizarro world. People are thoroughly upset about the fact that folks they’ve been following–and more importantly, the count of folks that follow them–have been trimmed down considerably.
It looks like the feeble attempts to reduce spam has also wreaked havoc upon legitimate usage.
Read some of the commentary on their support page at Get Satisfaction for some hilarity on how much this is affecting the lives of its users:
Followers and Following are all gone - when will this be fixed?
It’s strange that after all this time and all the negative press, Twitter manages to alienate even more users. They had finally made their platform a bit more stable by reducing the amount of information that could be grabbed from their API and then they go and screw up everyone’s relationships. I doubt this will be the last straw as there aren’t really any viable alternatives (I mean seriously, can you tell someone at a bar to follow you on Jaiku… would they even know how to spell that easily?) and there are so many other services tied into this service.
To make a long story short: Get your act together Twitter. Please.
As mentioned before, I decided to hit up Austin Jelly this morning to see what the craze was all about. I’d worked at Cafe Caffeine a few times before and for the most part, it felt like that.
David Walker of 302 designs introduced himself. Strangely, he mentioned that I looked familiar to him and he seemed rather familiar to me as well. I’m going to have to try to figure that one out.
It wasn’t as social as I expected it to be, but I figure most of the regulars were out seeking new iPhones. Then again, I actually had quite a few things to get done this morning and had my mind wrapped around too many things to pay too much attention to my surroundings.
Here are some tips I’ll use for my next venture out there:
- Grab a centrally-located table. It’s easy to go unnoticed on the outer tables if you want to socialize. The centrally-located tables had the most conversation and action, naturally.
- Make sure you’re not so head down into your work that you actually have time to talk and introduce yourself to others.
- Make sure your day isn’t interrupted by an hour long conference call where the VOIP USB speakerphone at home is necessary.
I’m actually looking forward to my next adventure out there (I make it seem like it’s so far away when I can literally walk there in less than five minutes) when I get back from the Bay Area in a couple weeks and looking forward to meeting some of the folks I didn’t get a chance to meet today.
I’ve got 19 more of these suckers left if anyone is interested.
I’m a big fan of their UI. It keeps everything well-organized and while the refreshes aren’t instant, they make it easy to sort through. Most of all, they group up the facebook-twitter-simultaneous-update spam.
I’ve got over 500 photos and 100 videos of the last few weeks with our trip to NYC, Houston, and my cousins’ visit to Austin.
It amazes me how quickly some folks are able to get their digital lives online within a day of it happening. Maybe I need to step up my game.
Back to Wordpress. Tumblr is great and all, but I guess I wanted more control over everything. Once again, going to try to start posting here daily.
