Twitter failure: Call the irony squad

• 2 months ago
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• mathewi

excerpt MG Siegler of ParisLemon and VentureBeat (and my rival for number nine slot on the Techmeme 100) is keeping the pressure on Twitter about the system’s recent problems — intermittent dropping of people’s messages, etc. — and so he should. For a se ...

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  liza 2 months ago with 1 point

  you should have mentioned also that, given how some of the malelitists of the tech blogosphere have been creaming their pants over the alleged half billion valuation of Twitter, it would behoove anybody with access to media and VC to spew such pronouncements in view of the system's obvious shortcomings in service.
  
  not that i would stop using it. it's just that, just as with Bebbo ... where the hey do people get these wacked out valuations? it's like kids playing with their dads bank accounts :)

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  mathewi 2 months ago with 1 point

  A fair point, Liza.

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  engtech 2 months ago with 1 point

  I'd love to see the stats if people are blogging more because Twitter isn't working.
  
  It's funny how much more boring the Internet seems without having tweeps to talk to.

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  mathewi 2 months ago with 2 points

  Maybe more people are actually going outside -- or maybe they're just
  sitting at their computers, hitting "reload" on the Twitter page over
  and over :-)

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  Danny 2 months ago with 1 point

  "It’s a good thing he’s not there right now, because he’d be out of luck."
  
  LMAO!

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