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  • 07.08.08
    Fail Whale Merchandise and Why I (Still) Love Twitter on the go | (0)
    Someone has made a page selling Fail Whale merchandise parodying the downtime issues that have been plaguing Twitter as of late. There's even a Fail Whale page on Facebook that you can become a fan of. Twitter allows you to post short status messages or microblogs and to follow your friends' status online or via the mobile web. Their trouble with scaling up the Twitter service is a relatively common story similar to that of Myspace or AOL during the advent of the internet. Total monthly users have quadrupled from about 500 thousand at the end of 2007 to almost ...
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  • 04.21.08
    My Online Status: Torn asides | (1)
    V. Once upon a time, people set their online status using their Instant Messenger away status. Twitter made status public and syndicated it for the world to see. Facebook integrated status messages into our social network profiles. Now everyone has started including the ability to set status on their site from Myspace to Linkedin and all hell is breaking lose. These online status updates help us to share what we're doing with our friends, loved ones and even business associates. We can share our latest news and challenges with everyone we know. Since they're broken down into chunks as small ...
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