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2009-08-06 :: scc

2 hours ago, Twitter reported that its web site was down… although, Twitter really was not sure why…
According to Twitter’s status page, Twitter (now) says that it is/was under a denial of service attack (Wikipedia entry for Denial of Service Attack).
In a statement to CNN, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone (Wikipedia entry for Biz [...]

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PR + technology + www
2009-05-13 :: scc

Twitter Giveth & Twitter Taketh Away…
Now, Twitter Giveth Back… Kinda.
Twitter claims to have learned a lot between yesterday and this afternoon.
Twitter now has a band aid solution in place to #fixreplies.
As of today, updates beginning with @username—that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon—will be seen by everyone following [...]

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PR + technology + www
2009-05-13 :: scc

Yesterday, Twitter updated the Notices section of Settings regarding @replies.
Initially, Twitter claimed that this update removed an undesirable and confusing option for the Twitter newbies and the Twitter illiterate who could not grasp the concept of those one-sided, fragmented conversations sent via @replies to Twitter users they were not following but still appeared [...]

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