Twitter is not only down most of the time but their funny downtime messages are even more annoying. Its been 3 days since I last saw the twitter@twitter.com bot present online on my gtalk. I don't know whats wrong with them and I don't care to investigate. And no I don't think Pownce cuts it as a simple communication and micro-blogging tool, its way too complex and convoluted for simple twitter like usage. Shall wait for a reasonable twitter replacement to come up.
Here is my small list of features which I would retain and junk the rest.
1. An embeddable widget for Blogs which shows your micro-blog/sidenotes you and or with your friends sent to this new service.
2. An RSS feed of the above two
3. A Jabber bot that you can add to communicate with from any Jabber messaging service like gtalk, jabber.org etc.
4. Compatibility with existing twitter clients.
5. SMS/E-mail integration. E-mail integration can maybe use a strategy of using a unique but changeable guid in the subject line as a spam avoidance technique for auto-approval of messages.
6. A simple configuration page to follow and approve followers, configuration for IM/E-mail GUID/Mobile.
Drop me an line if you are interested in developing this application.
try Plurk (www.plurk.com)
try Plurk (www.plurk.com)
Don't despair (maybe)
A very good friend of mine is considering a job there. He is a super star and if anyone can make a dent in twitter's stability problems it's him.
Maybe there is hope...
Good to hear that Twitter is finally getting more help
Good to hear Twitter is finally getting more help. Perhaps I can try it out again in another 3 months time.
Cheers!!
-Tarun
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