Random musings from Austin, TX. Quite. Indeed. Truly.
According to the twitter status blog (which uses Tumblr!), by 9PM PDT, almost all of the relationships will be restored.
It’s strange. I’ve been following all these local Austinites for a while and haven’t been able to see what they’ve been up to today, especially with Conjunctured getting coveraged with KXAN news.
Update 7:37PM PDT: All of my twitter relationships appear to be restored. Rejoice!
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:
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 took a step in the direction of getting out of the home office and working collaboratively with others when I talked to the other two SugarCRM employees in Austin today to see if they wanted to get together once a week and work together at a coffee shop, or somewhere equally interesting.
Naturally, they were both excited about the idea and we’ll talk about it while we’re all out in Cupertino next week. As one of the early employees, I could probably give them a lot of insight they wouldn’t get working in their individual silos for the most part. And, I can figure out if there’s anything I can, or the company can, do to make their lives easier.
A win-win situation and all it took was a little initiative to ask.
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.
