Just when I lost all faith in istwitterdown.com, I find out it does work. And even links to a helpful resource.
Is Twitter down?
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Some days, things just kind of come together. Thoughts are clear, ideas are sharp, and I get these glimpses of what the future could be.
Like today, I’m getting ready to deploy a mobile version of a content network and it strikes me that what we really need is a twitter version for all blogs. Basically, it would go like this…
Since userAgent doesn’t actually tell you if the user uses Twitter, we’d simply prompt visitors with a simple question. Use the Twitter? And if they did, they’d just Click here.
At that point, posts would collapse into 140 character bits. Opinions would be condensed for clarity (eg, teh suck or ftw).
An example post would go like this:
zomg, @microsoft tries to be cool… http://is.gd/6DP
And, then, comments would go like this:
@aaronmentele lulz. springsteen is rolling over in his grave. srsly
retweeting @aaronmentele: zomg, @microsoft tries to be cool… http://is.gd/6DP
@aaronmentele – yeah, fail. u missed the best part tho: http://is.gd/AJ
If you’ve been using the Twitter for any amount of time, maybe you’ve already thought of this. For everyone else, I explained this all in an earlier tweet.
#clone
To those who think Twitter is simply about the technology, I give you ReVou. For the rest of us, carry on.