Twitter’s architectural problems are well known. Many of us in the social networking scene have never been so focused on what’s under the hood of a particular service. While I do have a great deal of performance testing and tuning experience, I have never seen it pushed so hard in the social web. [...]

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One of the conversations that stemmed from our “Twit-Out” a few months ago was, “Can we save Twitter with open-source?” My response was the following:
I agree that Twitter could use some help, but I don’t know if opening the source is the main solution. I do believe, a healthy dose of stiff competition encourages [...]

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If you didn’t already know, 10 days ago, I got tired of trying to use Twitter only to be greeted by errors. I have a strong Software Quality Assurance background and have a small tolerance for bad software, yet I put up with Twitter for almost 2 years. I had to call it [...]

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When a new Twitter clone emerges in an already crowded space, it is easy to denounce it as just another wanna-be and classify it as a failure. No one knew Twitter would take the internet by storm, competitors such as Jaiku and Pownce are still thriving today, but they are nowhere near the [...]

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I really can’t say I left Twitter for 24 hours because all we discussed was Twitter the entire time. It was a great experience and the atmosphere was completely positive contrary to what many thought it would be.
So, was it successful? I think so.
My goal from all this was [...]

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Today is the Twit-Out! Thanks to all those who are participating. Over on FriendFeed, we are discussing many topics surrounding the Twit-Out. Robert Scoble suggested this Twit-Out FAQ thread for all your questions. Here’s a quick run-down of just some of the conversations:

How you think Twitter can improve their service?
Let’s talk about [...]

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Tomorrow, May 21, is the Twit-out. If you’re lost read the many many posts out there regarding the subject. This post is for those who wish to participate and could use a few pointers on how to truly avoid Twitter.
Remove Twitter clients from your startup routines. Whether they be automatic, or manual, [...]

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A while ago, a guy on FriendFeed that goes by the name Shey, suggested something interesting:

What if we decided to just stop using Twitter one day, and move over to FriendFeed for our status updates, link posting, and whatever else we use Twitter for? I jokingly responded that we’d have many chances to try [...]

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Twitter has become part of my daily routine here at bwana.world, and I’ve found that while there are many interesting people on it, I don’t want to know everything about them. There are plenty of people who love to use Twitter to follow everyone that follows them. While I understand some of their [...]

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A while ago, I blogged about Quotably’s lack of conversation context. Quotably was designed to solve the problem of sparse Twitter conversations. It did its best to generate a threaded view of the twitter conversation. As I stated before, it failed in many cases and added frustration to a seemingly unfixable problem. [...]

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