Comments on: …and the morning after

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:48:58 +0000

sighh.. the heady days of JetBlue’s social media infancy.

February 14th was a hell of a day to start a new gig as part of the corp comm team (though it says quite a bit about the senior leadership that they went along with the idea to put the video up so easilly)

Though seriously. You’d think after close to 10 years experience in video production and compression, I’d have a slightly easier time uploading a functional video to youTube. – particularly when you look at all the other kids doing it so easilly!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:35:34 +0000

Thanks for all of the comments so far!

@Kieran – As soon as I get an actual “office”, you’ll be welcome to drop by

@aka_monty – I think that as much as people don’t want to admit it, Twitter is now running up against limits of performance and scalability that is forcing difficult decisions. I agree with you that the conversation should not be limited, and currently, a lot of people get an unfair slice of the database and activity, but what they are looking at is a fundamental limitation on their web application. They must have reached a ceiling that forces them to decided between keeping the application perform stably and to the expectations of most, or limiting the activity and growth of some. Not an easy choice, but also, not one that has really been faced since the days of Friendfeed (and they ultimately lost the battle for both growth and marketshare).

@eldevlin – here’s hoping. We’ll see what the future holds. It seems like a core system rewrite, and soon is the only way to keep things stable and growing, and currently, they don’t seem to have the resources to do that.

By: eldevlin

eldevlin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:55:25 +0000

Good post. Unlike many others, I was confident Twitter would get its act together, it was just a matter of when. I really can’t bring myself to get all riled up about a platform that is free. Disappointed yes, but not mad. I did think your prior post hit the right tone. “Twitter, I love you but I don’t know how much longer I can stay in this abusive relationship.” Well, so far it appears Twitter has gone through to therapy it needs to stabilize our relationship. I’ll stay this time.

By: aka_monty

aka_monty — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:09:07 +0000

I’m going to be Dear Johning twitter myself – as of this morning I discovered through “twitter support” that there are “follower” limitations that, once reached, cannot be breached.
Once you hit that ceiling, you can’t even follow new people who follow you first.

WTF? Then they need to shut off calacanis & scobelizer & laporte.
And by doing so, they’d be effectively kneecapping the social media junkies.

By: KIeran Hawe

KIeran Hawe — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:09:22 +0000

It is good to forgive but not forget when it comes to Twitter. A year from now we will all laugh and remember the days of massive fail whales and half the Twitterverse screaming about their follower numbers. If anything, regardless of the issues, Twitter is as string as ever. I have not seen that much serious user migration to other services…that speaks volumes.

On another note – I will personally go down to your office and throw away any Mets memorabilia if you decide to permanently leave Twitter.