The Ultimate Twitter
Twitter is broken, unstable, slow and is getting competition..
Ever since they had that major downtime in May I think, IM has been down, and ever since that day its there number one priority to get it back up. So why did the ‘track’ feature come back first then? and why did it go down again? I feel sorry for them, every fix they make makes Twitter more unstable, they often have to rollback code ‘fixes’ etc. the API is broken. There’s no API management, so if you use FF, twhirl or Socialthing etc it will count toward the API limit, now brought back to 20 connections an hour, the only way to manage it when you loose them all, is to change your password and change it on the services you want to update from your Twitter.
The replies tab goes down quiet often, Twitter is useless without the replies tab. You might as well take down twitter all together if that doesnt work. Pagination is the same, I often can’t scroll back and the limit is now set on 10 pages back, and no you can’t change the url it will bring you back to the index page. I am not going to keep checking twitter for timeline updates, if I can’t go back forget it. I’ll just go somewhere else, but where?
This is going to be a problem for Twitter, there are allot of alternatives, but the one that’s caught on the most is Plurk! Plurk is weird the first time you use it but it grows on to you, the time line is horizontal, and you can reply on Plurks in a thread. This is something I really like, and so do allot of people, not more @-ing (you can still do that btw) but replying in a thread, likes it’s a blog post, it’s more like a microblog instead of a messaging service. So while twitter is having problems, more and more people are moving over to Plurk and more and more people are discovering the joy of threaded Replies. So even when Twitter comes back, people won’t return they will miss the threaded replies. Really all Plurk needs is IM and an API. It will get some getting used to though.
So some will say, what the deal: Jaiku has done this forever. That is correct, but in my mind Jaiku is dead. It got sold to Google and they’ve closed Jaiku to invite only. Jaiku has threaded replies, but it also has a feature so you can import your lifeline, your RSS feeds. I don’t like that, It’s too much noise. Sure plugging your blogpost is ok, but I don’t need to know that youve just uploaded 30 million photos, with a Jaiku for every photo. Just manual post ONE Jaiku for every photo Batch you uploaded.
If you’ve been reading the news the last couple of weeks you may have noticed that Blu-Ray is for the win. It al started a few day’s before CES 2008 Warner decided it was going to sell all new movies on Blu-Ray only, and people go where the content is don’t they. It was really sad though, the HD DVD group canceled there press conference the next day. So since Warner announced they were going Blu-Ray all the way, HD DVD has been going down hill. Other studio’s started going Blu-Ray only 
and even Wall Mart announced they would stop selling HD DVD players. And now rumors are getting spread that Toshiba will step out of the HD DVD camp, and if Toshiba leaves it will be done. Even Netflix announced they would stop renting out HD DVD’s. RIP HD DVD. To be honest this has gone allot faster then I thought it would go. But for us the consumers it’s better there’s a single format so we don’t have to think what format we will buy. So what do you think of this whole HDDVD vs. Blu-ray thing? Do you think Blu-Ray should win or do you think it’s better that HD DVD will win. Although that chance is really small.