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1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 00:51:08 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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   A Eulogy for #Twitter: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5734
   1. Erkan Yılmaz (erkan)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 01:03:31 EDT Erkan Yılmaz

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      !twitter last quarter: "added 14 million new users for a total of 255 million. The thing is: Its users are #less active than they once were." cc @question
   2. Erkan Yılmaz (erkan)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 01:04:00 EDT Erkan Yılmaz

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      you gotta love the whale image ;-) http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2014/04/fail/lead.jpg?n4wdy4
      1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 01:30:02 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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         #Twitter apparently still, occasionally, drops out: Wikipedia says the most recent #failwhale was ~2 days ago, for 20 minutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_whale#Outages
         1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 01:43:35 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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            I'm stupefied by the idea that a celebrity + event that I don't care about could knock out my service for unrelated communications that I do care about.
            1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 01:49:34 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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               Like Doc Searls said: "SMTP never gave me a whale. Nor has POP3, SSH, XMPP or any of the other protocols in the #Internet Suite." http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/whats-tweeting-protocol
               1. lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 01:54:46 EDT lnxw48 (Linux Walt)

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                  @rozzin ... The big problem with #Twitter is centralization. Centralized ownership & control, centralized server infrastructure (outages tend to affect everyone, not just users of server X).

                  1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2014 02:06:27 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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                     My favorite part of this article is the nod to #fragmentation: "Fragmentation is a fundamental part of how people interact with information online; it's how we socialize offline, too." http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5734