Category Archives: fail whale

Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves

Posted on July 5, 2009 by jessestay

Twitter seems to be on a roll lately. It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. You can see all the … Continue reading →

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Where is Twitter’s Emergency Response System?

Posted on May 31, 2009 by jessestay

The buzz has been swirling around the Twitter developer-sphere about a bug that has been going on for almost a full day now.  Louis Gray reported it first at around 12am MST last night, and the first post to the Twitter … Continue reading →

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Developers Bailing on Twitter

Posted on June 19, 2008 by jessestay

I’ve been following various development mailing lists lately, and I’m seeing a trend of developers starting to bail on Twitter. This is a scary thought, because when the developers bail, so will the users. It all started with a conversation … Continue reading →

Posted in fail whale, FriendFeed, net::twitter, OSS, Perl, Social Media, Twitter, twitter api, twitter development, twitter problems | 558 Comments