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Post details: Tweet, tweet!

2008-10-07

08:17:16, Categories: Fun, Social Software

Tweet, tweet!

Twitter is down for maintenance. ("It’s Cool, I Can Chill” -> “Hurry Up!” says the ice-cream cone on their custom status image).
http://news.ycombinator.com/ has met a crawling death. The page is loading forever and never shows a complete list of news.

Where do you write when Twitter is down? A lot of what might become blog posts are expressed as short Twitter messages instead these days. But if it is down? Well, then the blog gets twitter-like messages such as this one.

Maybe you know how to add Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears ?

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Comment from: Will Knott [Visitor]

· http://WillKnott.ie

I'm more of a jaiku'er than a tweeter these days.

Permalink 07.10.08 @ 12:45

Comment from: Christoph Görn [Visitor]

· http://b4mad.net/datenbrei/

or you use http://identi.ca and it's automatic twitter bridge...

Permalink 07.10.08 @ 15:44

Comment from: captsolo [Member]

Christoph, Will: thanks for replies.

both suggestions try to solve the technological problem (where to post when twitter is down) and are good candidates to look into.

if I were to look for alternatives to Twitter, I'd start with a distributed and open-source solution such as http://identi.ca. And SMOB (Semantic MicrOBlogging) (plus we should look into inter-operability of identi.ca solution and SMOB).

but there is also the social / psychological part to this - an observation that the thought energy one might have put into blog posts is being expressed in (a larger number of) shorter microblog entries these days.

Permalink 07.10.08 @ 18:10