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.
Geek Spring Break is over. It’s now time for skinny jeans, pork pie hats, hoodies, and crazy hair. Yes, the musicians have descended upon SXSW.
I come to you half sober–who knows why I’m writing this–to tell you that SXSW has been amazing thus far and will only get better as the days continue.
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