Anti-pattern recognition

Adactio: Journal—Anti-pattern recognition: "Eager geeks rushed to sign up for the contact aggregation service. The second step of the process involved handing over your Twitter username and password. This request was dutifully obeyed by the eager geeks."

Sigh. Eager little geeks with Quechup all over their faces.

"Twitter often feels like being in an abusive relationship with a Fail Whale" - Jeremy Keith

Twitter Status - With friends tab and feeds

Twitter Status - With friends tab and feeds: "Recently we made a change to remove the With Friends tab from user profiles. We did this after finding out that this tab was both a relatively rarely accessed as well as computationally expensive page for us to serve. At the same time we removed access to the feeds for this page."

Doh! Loose your feed, loose your friends. Sheesh, do people actually use the UI and page back though messages?

Guess I'm getting my Twitter via a feed from http://friendfeed.com/?service=twitter

twitter has a tumblr?

Twitter / Jack Dorsey: "We now have a status tumblr!: http://status.twitter.com/. We'll be updating it on the regular."

Twitter tumbles as it falls down!

Blame FriendFeed

Blame FriendFeed: "FriendFeed is Twitter, only slower. Here’s my demo of the difference between FriendFeed and Twitter:

Twitter: Hi, I’m having Sugar Pops for breakfast.

Ten minutes later….

FriendFeed: Hi, I’m having Sugar Pops for breakfast."

Heh! Have to Hide with Extreme Prejudice.

Twitter Blog

Twitter Blog: "We've gone through our various databases, caches, web servers, daemons, and despite some increased traffic activity across the board, all systems are running nominally. The truth is we're not sure what's happening. It seems to be occurring in-between these parts."

Eww. That's gotta leave a warm fuzzy in the hearts of a stack of developers. Ah, well, better ever than sooner.

Twitter: An admission of failure, a call for help

Love the headless tweet image!

FriendFeed is back

Paul Buchheit - FriendFeed: "“FriendFeed is back and should be completely caught up in a couple of hours. Sorry for the trouble.”"

Wow, FriendFeed really *is* the new Twitter. - ⓞnor

Funny that I saw all of the down messages on Friendfeed via rss and not in twitter.

Twitter Blacklist

Twitter Blacklist: "Twitter as a social network has developed its own class of unfortunates that attempt to draw attention to themselves through spam-like methods"

This class of people has been neatly described in terms of the ratio between how many they "follow" compared to how many follow them:

1:5 = twittercaster, 1:2 = notable, 1:1 socially healthy, 2:1 newbie or social climber, 5:1 twitter spammer. — evan

@twitblacklist

There are links to a couple of Greasemonkey scripts using the list ...

heh, antifollowspammers.

Ugg @homebasedbiz4

Twitter / kaloopy

Twitter / kaloopy: "Kaloopy Says is a Celeb News widget on Facebook."

Whoa, Twitter followspam for a Facebook Widget? Boggle.

Finally time to break out the Twitter block function ...

Twitter / RU4Real

Twitter / RU4Real: "DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ACCOUNT. It is part of an experiment to see how many people actually read the pages of the people they follow."

Too funny. A Friend trap. Fewer Followers that I would expect ...

ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet

ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet: "Opportunities will exist in the coming weeks for our ‘ReTweet’ program whereby Twitter users help messages to go viral for advertisers by joining together to ReTweet the paid Tweets of others."

Next up, Micropayments!

Heard the one about the Twitter Business Plan?

Color Wars

Color Wars 2008: "3 You must be in your team uniform (do your best)."

beerteam need to post images in team colors (holding a beer).

TeamRAWR just throw your sign up in front of your cat & snap the shot.

teamoctarine should wear a pointy hat.


rainbowteam is giving people titles like "Our Director of Chromatic Branding & Vertical Arc Integration Operations."

TeamRAWR: hey @nakedteam - happy BUNday!

plaidteam has an avatar maker

PussyPinkTeam has a group flickr account

A couple more teams:

Team Falk
team awesome
TeamLeetGeeks


Fun icons and results at the Flickr colorwar tag

Love the cat on the meat team ... Meaty Samantha 3

Huh, guess Color War is a summer camp tradition.

Color Wars

Color Wars 2008

Buh? First war is RoShamBo via Flickr tags? Seems odd to have to go to another service. Although the Team Uniform bit is funny.

first colorwar game: rule #3: "You must be in your team uniform (do your best)." ... Easy for us!

Naked Team

Guess Meat Team could do the same ...

That child was so ugly, they had to put a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him

Meat Ning

Dunno what Invisoteam is going to do ...

Khan Rocks

Mashable went green.

Evil Team
Losing Team
Team Doom
Beer Team

Where is Team Venture?

ColorWars

Color Wars!

A good way to follow the action is to watch one of the captains 'with friends'
Color Wars
Team Team

In All Teams has a great All Team background.

Black Watch Team
Bacon Team
0xBADA55
Rainbow Team
Team Monochrome
Invisoteam
doorhingeteam

Team Coffee dropped a page of backgrounds and icon boarders.

Chartreuse Team has a page linking to facebook and flickr groups.

The Black Team has a page linking to a cafepress store and a flickr group

Member:

Team Octarine

Twitter Teams

Twitter Teams | Jangro.com: "Out of the blue (no pun intended, you’ll see), Ze Frank declared that he was on the “Blue Team”. No explanation, he changed his picture to contain a blue team badge on the bottom, talked it up a bit, and that was it, @blueteam is born.

Now different colored teams have popped up."

@ZeFrank tweets the Blue Team. Blogs about color wars and cuts the domain Color War 2008.

Looks like there's a team controller ColorWars and a team member aggregator

Team Tartan has a blog.
Team Clear has a Wiki.
Plaid Team is using hashtags and has a Facebook Group.

Favs

The A Team
NoTeam
TeamRAWR

Member

Team Booze
Team Coffee
Team Meat

Tweetmeme

Tweetmeme: "Thus tweetmeme was born, put simply it watches what is going on within twitter and picks up anyone posting links to content. We then track how many other mentions of the same content are made (and how influential they are.) and present them in a simple format."

Woe, three more feed buckets. Nice idea which doesn't seem to be yielding much other than itself ...

Twitter Jobs

Twitter Jobs: "Twitter is seeking a Business Development Manager who is focused on bringing Twitter's potential to mobile and IM operators the world over. You'll be tasked with building and maintaining strategic partner relationships and dedicated to producing results in the form of cost-reduction, localized promotion, and revenue."

Ah! There's a bit about that revenue stream that everyone was going on about a few weeks ago. Never saw anything that came out of the chatter ...

Twitterrific

Twitterrific: "is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or 'tweets' to the Twitter community website."

I was always surprised by how much I saw this client used for twitter. Guess they didn't like the popularity because they started charging $15 for an ad less version when there are a plenty of competitors.

I'm quite happy with some combination of web, sms,
Spaz, and Flock ...

Foamee: a barnacle app for indebted drinkers

Foamee: a barnacle app for indebted drinkers: "So I think I’ll call this type of application a “barnacle app”. It attaches itself to Twitter and kind of filters through certain things it wants to keep."

Barnacle! Certainly a better word than mashup.

Twitarrhoea

Twitter starts to limit outbound SMS in UK: "UK users may start unsubscribing from people who tweet incessantly (those afflicted with “Twitarrhoea“)"

Ah, Twitarrheoa. I will say it three times fast. Often.

Networks Try 'Twittering'

Networks Try 'Twittering': "ABC Family, the Walt Disney-owned network has launched a promotion around 'Greek,' a new comedy-drama about fraternity and sorority life. Twitter allows consumers to follow the show via text updates and behind-the-scene tidbits from the show's cast and writers.

The title character in the new NBC show 'Chuck,' about a computer geek who becomes a secret agent, will twitter to fans of the show. The campaign launches next Monday and NBC hopes Twitter will send users to other platforms like MySpace, where Chuck will also have a profile."