[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Stuart
Too bloody right! -Stuart On 9 Aug 2009, at 15:00, Joe Bowman bowman.jos...@gmail.com wrote: Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Twitter in any way, other than as a consumer of their API and a user of their product. Currently, my app running on appengine is having the same difficulty as

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
There's a lot of false statements and accusations being made against the Twitter folk right now. These are being made by unhappy people who's products that rely on Twitter aren't working, and don't understand what's going on. Well put. -- personal:

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread CaMason
it's a clear message to us in the third-party ecosystem that we'd better not make them our primary focus because we can't rely on them being here tomorrow if things get really bad. Surely, that's a wise move anyway, considering Twitter is a third- party supplier of free data. All of us app

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Stuart
On 9 Aug 2009, at 16:35, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 8/9/09 10:00 AM, Joe Bowman wrote: First off, to people stating that Twitter Ops needs to work 30 hour shifts, and any ops person who hasn't, isn't a real ops person. A real ops person knows that after about 15 hours

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Terry Jones
Stuart == Stuart stut...@gmail.com writes: Stuart * I can't believe you lot don't realise that constantly demanding Stuart status updates, while certainly important to you, is little more Stuart than a distraction for those who are actually fighting the good Stuart fight. I woke up this

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Adam Cloud
***Scenario*** A band broadcasts their music on a radio station all the time, and people are able to freely tune into it, or go buy their music. They go and play in a city park for free every day just because it's a much nicer experience for the listener then to be just sitting at home listening

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Neil Ellis
Nice story Adam, however the band are actually trying to run a business, not doing this for love/free. I can assure you the investors in Twitter will be looking to turn profit. Of course if the band are laid up then the danger is the hotdog man (and all his customers) will go to another

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
A few of you are acting like real children and a few of you still have your heads screwed on right. I'm confident they are doing everything they can. Chill and enjoy your weekend. They'll get it sorted out. What did you guys do in 2007? Twitter was down all the time then. Your blood pressure

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Sean Callahan
Agree with what you said. Very well put. It is affecting most all of us. Our photo sharing service (TweetPhoto) is tied into 20 apps whose users aren't able to upload photo onto our platform. I've communicated by adding an alert to our homepage about the issues which broadcasts the message and

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Sean Callahan seancalla...@gmail.comwrote: Agree with what you said. Very well put. It is affecting most all of us. Our photo sharing service (TweetPhoto) is tied into 20 apps whose users aren't able to upload photo onto our platform. I've communicated by

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/9/09 12:47 PM, Stuart wrote: * I can't believe you lot don't realise that constantly demanding status updates, while certainly important to you, is little more than a distraction for those who are actually fighting the good fight. I hear there's this popular service that makes it easy to

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Dean Collins
On 8/9/09 12:47 PM, Stuart wrote: * I can't believe you lot don't realise that constantly demanding status updates, while certainly important to you, is little more than a distraction for those who are actually fighting the good fight. Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com |

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Neil Ellis
What did you guys do in 2007? Twitter was down all the time then. Your blood pressure must have been through the roof with weekly visits to a shrink if you responded this way every time it went down. How many people had bet their business/livelihood on Twitter in 2007? Compassion all-round

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
It is like a surreal tech soap opera on this list though :-) Hey maybe I could pitch this to Fox . All the best Neil DO IT! Maybe Twitter would have made a good reality show. Lots of super-dramatic angles and queues pointing at sysadmins typing at a console. :) The mailing list would

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Neil Ellis
Well there was the Twitter TV program, maybe this is it. Maybe we're in a Borat style movie already ;-) I think it should be in the style of 24 : I can see it now, clock counting down - Jack Bauer torturing sysadmin; developers being exposed as double agents oh the intrigue :-) Of

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Scott C. Lemon
Uh ... for all of you hotdog men, threatening to move on to another band that are still playing and have fans. ... PLEASE DO! I can promise you that you will not be missed by twitter, or anyone here. For all of the whiny developers who didn't plan for a rainy day ... maybe this is time for you

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Scott Haneda
In all honesty, I think you are stuck. The responsible thing to do is follow this list and wait until the API is reported 100% functional. Writing a new app is bound to have testing issues, currently you have zero way of knowing if it is your app, the API, routing blocks, or even

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Neil Ellis
Or you could actually read my email, my goodness people are so rude. No threats in my email, please read again in context. Peace Neil On 9 Aug 2009, at 19:30, Scott C. Lemon wrote: Uh ... for all of you hotdog men, threatening to move on to another band that are still playing and have

[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?

2009-03-21 Thread lucy
Alex and Doug, I appreciate your replies. We'll go with option 2 for now. Thanks. On Mar 18, 2:25 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Lucy, You should only create accounts for users that you are actively using. Please do not create accounts to squat on them. A strong indication that

[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Payne
If you create a bunch of accounts in a short period of time, it's likely that our support staff will ban those accounts. Please let them know ahead of time: supp...@twitter.com. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:32, lucy a.downy.h...@gmail.com wrote: A friend and I want to start a legitimate business

[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?

2009-03-18 Thread Doug Williams
Lucy, You should only create accounts for users that you are actively using. Please do not create accounts to squat on them. A strong indication that an account should not exist account is a noticeable lack of followers. From your description, I would suggest you concentrate on Option 2 and