1. Create yet MORE detritus, filling up the Net with useless BS; allowing the trained mindset of easily manipulated data to flourish. Welcome to Orwell’s 1984, only you help build your own trap.

Or:

2. Create lasting (‘evergreen’) materials and data, which are not only well-linked and cited, but also linked and cited to traditional, (less easily manipulative) hardcopy sources.

Twitter – yet another detritus dumping distraction. Be the time wasting trendoid twit, they want want you to be—or learn how to back-up the blah-blah with substance… The old saying applies, “garbage in – garbage out.” In this case, fluff in – fluff out… We all have a choice, and what we choose helps to define us.

… that’s because Steve is a looney who has no real grasp on tech. Oh, Twitter is so important. Why don’t you call up Twitter, book a room and nail the XMPP stream for a night or two? You’ll regret it in the morning but eh. You seem so in love with Twitter you’re a knob.

Pinging Service

If you need to know when a large number of Twitter users update, check out Gnip. They’ll ping you via REST or XMPP whenever the users you’re interested in tweet. This works great for social sites integrating Twitter. We’re talking with Gnip about providing full data to applications that need to keep up with a large number of Twitter users. This solution isn’t ready just yet, but we’ll keep you updated.

So, idk wtf you’re talking about.

Get it?

If you guys haven’t taken the time to listen and read, I dont give a flying fuck if you understand. I can follow him easily because I take the time.

Steve, keep up the good work. You’re improving.

Maybe he did too much acid in the ’60s, or maybe he’s just so self-satisfied that we’re supposed to run to Wikipedia to look up background explanations on “the long-withheld Track function”, etc.

But in High School Journalism 1A, they teach you to include EXPLANATIONS of what you’re writing about!

Do it right or go home, Steve.

Steve seems to make this out to be some big issue as if the world is going to end. Twitter is just for random thoughts, it isn’t used for storing important content so I fail to see the need to have API extended right away otherwise Steve will die. If it was something like Wordpress or Facebook I wouldn’t mind, but Twitter come on?

For crowdstatus I am currently using my own service but for the new version I am moving to gnip and the plus from this is I can also get updates from other services too.

I actually believe twitter could run a ping like service where developers.