Comments on: Tim and Twitterbucks http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/29/tim-and-twitterbucks/ Open Source, Modern Programming Languages, OS X, Photography, and ... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ted Leung http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/29/tim-and-twitterbucks/#comment-15390 Ted Leung Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:13:33 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/29/tim-and-twitterbucks/#comment-15390 Salman, just use a rich desktop client. Makes all the difference. Ed, one of the tribes (the Seattle Flickrites) that I am in on twitter relies heavily on phone/SMS usage. I tried to get them to go to Pownce, since Pownce does Flickr nicely. People wouldn't go because there was no SMS. Even for me, mobile usage is highly important. Important enough to make me upgrade my phone on Monday. Salman, just use a rich desktop client. Makes all the difference.

Ed, one of the tribes (the Seattle Flickrites) that I am in on twitter relies heavily on phone/SMS usage. I tried to get them to go to Pownce, since Pownce does Flickr nicely. People wouldn’t go because there was no SMS. Even for me, mobile usage is highly important. Important enough to make me upgrade my phone on Monday.

]]> By: Ed http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/29/tim-and-twitterbucks/#comment-15389 Ed Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:10:51 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/29/tim-and-twitterbucks/#comment-15389 Is there any correlation between people who love twitter and people who use the service through their phones? Any thoughts on Twitter's scalability problems and their use of Rails? What happens when a really famous person discovers Twitter? Someone who might have hundreds of thousands of followers? Is there any correlation between people who love twitter and people who use the service through their phones?

Any thoughts on Twitter’s scalability problems and their use of Rails? What happens when a really famous person discovers Twitter? Someone who might have hundreds of thousands of followers?

]]> By: Salman Jilani http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/29/tim-and-twitterbucks/#comment-15351 Salman Jilani Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:47:49 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/29/tim-and-twitterbucks/#comment-15351 For me twitter is near to useless. but the micro blogging feature and remote status updates is pretty cool. the twitter interface is the main thing that turns me off. it isn't user friendly. now all I'm afraid about is twitter ads. users won't really mind but critics will... According to me if they update the user interface and use friendly terms, twitter will get more traffic. For me twitter is near to useless. but the micro blogging feature and remote status updates is pretty cool. the twitter interface is the main thing that turns me off. it isn’t user friendly. now all I’m afraid about is twitter ads. users won’t really mind but critics will…

According to me if they update the user interface and use friendly terms, twitter will get more traffic.

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