Twitter is a notorious FAIL that will eventually lead it to be another ICQ. Thanks for the killer app with the cute name guys. We love you but the downtime and the bots and the marketing folks are not fun.
Downtime slathered in web 2.0 cute is still downtime. Damnit, we have insightful, sarcastic, funny rants less than 140 characters to spam out to everyone we know. Stop it!
I toyed with a sidebar of short posts next to my regular entries here and it didn’t stick. I was never motivated to write anything for it because I didn’t have a captive audience. Boring old pull-technology will never become killer, we all like push-apps like e-mail and IM, and now their mash-up that doesn’t even have one-to-one replies sometimes is becoming inundated with ring-tone scammers and link-bots. If twitter isn’t profiting on some back-channel from these jerks, why aren’t they adding any behavior moderation into their framework? Rebooting isn’t working.
I expect bot replies will become the next blog-comment-spam and force them to do something.
rbn-bot: @grantstavely that was funny, you should try viagra http://tinyurl.com/mexican-pharma
AOL and Yahoo already have the two largest IM infrastructures, why haven’t they stolen twitter’s SMS and web features and made this happen? Because they don’t get it and they are too big and slow.
I don’t know where I’m going (because I can’t code twitters replacement using google frameworks and IM infrastructure) with this, so I’ll end with a non sequitur: Look how many words and concepts in this entry are less than 10 years old. Even the word ‘downtime’ is relatively novel, and that it exists in my spell-check says a lot, when ‘spellcheck’ and ‘damnit’ do not. “Oh, no hunting and gathering today he-who-types-a-lot, the woods are experiencing downtime.”
Oh, and I’m using friendfeed now.
