Twitter down for DB maintenance…
Twitter is currently down for database maintenance.
We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience.
I wonder what kind of hell will break loose when it comes back up and sucks in the queued SMS updates… My phone is gonna go nuts.
TechCrunch is mentioning the Twitter hockey stick. Friendfeed is looking downright flat. Ummm, did you see the new Coke commercial with Twitter mentioned?
Before Quantum of Solace, last night, a Coke commercial ran in which the lead actor-singer walks around his Christmas party describing everyone he’s invited. Amongst those attending were his “Twitter list.”
Wondering if this is the Twitter PR team buying product placement within an ad or if Coke knows Twitter has enough traction to elicit nods from theater attendees.
I haven’t found a streamed rev of the ad yet… I’ll embed it on this page when I get it.
Your current plan is not compatible with the T-Mobile G1. Please visit T-Mobile.com on your computer, dial 611 from your phone, or visit a retail location.
Today I had my most dissapointing experience with T-Mobile. I’ve been a customer and serious fan of their service since it was still Voicestream. Today they shut off my mobile Internet access without warning. Not cool.
This week I’ve been reviewing and testing the G1. I started without a SIM or plan, slipped my own Total Internet enabled SIM in, and was off and running. The first two days were good. 3G was snappy and no interuptions in net access took place. Overall, the T-Mo side of a transition to the G1 seemed solid. No notifications. Life was good.
Then yesterday morning, at the completion of writing a blog post for 40 minutes, net access was shut off. Coincedentally I was writing a post exactly at that time and I found out when I clicked “Publish” (the point where you submit the post). The message that came up is shown above, in an image taken with my iPhone 3G.
It was exactly 48 hours after I began using the device. Pretty much to the minute. No SMSs were sent about needing an upgraded data plan. No restrictions were placed on 3G vs EDGE. No warning, just an abrupt shut-off at a really inopportune moment. Note: Dave Winer knows a thing or two about this with his Comcast shut-offs.
If you’ve got Total Internet for $19.99, it’s not enough. There isn’t any grandfathering. Make sure you’re signed up for the G1 plan. You’ve been warned.
Post written entirely on a G1 in web based WordPress.
It seems like half of the spam I’m getting on Twitter is from a certain six figure income dot com domain (I won’t dignify their site with a link). My complaint about it in a tweet yesterday hit a nerve in quite a few people.
I’m pretty sure it’s one person, sitting in a basement somewhere, who is mass creating accounts and running some mass following scripts.
This is very easy and completely doable by a single person (then annoys thousands). There isn’t a way to filter followers with such criteria, but @chadspacey put a great idea up on Flickr. It’d take a lot of work on the back end, but is a simple and community based approach, a-la craigslist.
Gala and I did the traditional eating of the 1-year-old-frozen-top-tier-of-the-wedding-cake. It wasn’t bad at all.
This tradition is a bit crazy. We wonder how, as my brother-in-law pointed out, this is a tradition at all… It’s not like refridgeration and freezers have been around that long. Found this.