{"id":429,"date":"2008-06-27T06:26:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2008-06-28T07:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T14:12:44","slug":"whither-instant-messaging-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/06\/27\/whither-instant-messaging-and-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither Instant Messaging and Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-429\">\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s IM feed has been down for ages.  For me, this is a real problem for two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Since Twitter is all about what you&#8217;re doing \/ thinking \/ feeling at a given moment, access to tools while mobile is critical.  I hate SMS.  I love GoogleTalk on my RIM Blackberry.  Using the Twitter IM feed was easy and straightforward and I could do it anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>But not now.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, to me, is the apparent lack of technical understanding of how to do IM at Twitter (and maybe generally how to manage a fast growing infrastructure).  If they can&#8217;t figure that out, then they&#8217;re doomed (or at least will need to be bought out at a discount by someone that can fix things).<\/p>\n<p>IM is easy, compared to the other issues Twitter appears to face (based on reading their status blog along with other blog entries on the net).  Very disappointing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-429\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 429);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-429\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-429\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter&#8217;s IM feed has been down for ages. For me, this is a real problem for two reasons. Since Twitter is all about what you&#8217;re doing \/ thinking \/ feeling at a given moment, access to tools while mobile is critical. I hate SMS. I love GoogleTalk on my RIM Blackberry. Using the Twitter IM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}