Cynic Root

The obvious service to expect next is a Twitter CO2 compensation service for your Twitter traffic.

“Sex, and now that I’ve got your attention…” updated.

The Web is Falling (Or whales are falling out of the sky)
Twitter got a huge boost in terms of exposure and users by throwing whales at innocent users (http://cynicroot.com/blog/2008/07/30/the-twitter-conspiracy-downtime-a-publicity-stunt/).
Other companies are now doing the same. It seems that some downtime provides good exposure to companies with many users which don’t get too much spotlight.
The best [...]

Is any other company getting this much community strategic consulting?
Or that much coverage?

I’m not that much of a Twitter user, but it seems that recently no blog is complete without saying something about twitter.
Twitter had a lot of downtime over 1-2Q08. It made all blogs talk about twitter even more, a lot more:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/20/twitter-something-is-technically-wrong/, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/31/hey-twitter-i-have-a-few-questions-too/
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/23/201251
http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/15/twitter-down/
(Simply search “twitter AND down”. Actually, just search “twitter”).
It even makes me talk about [...]

Revshare with US operators.
In the US, operators get up to 15c per text RECEIVED by mobile users.
Suppose twitter got just 1c per text Twitter sent.
Every time Robert Scoble goes to sleep Twitter would make about 200$
Admittedly, that’s assuming Scoble is followed to people’s mobile, which most people probably don’t. Unless they really like their mobiles [...]

Question in statistics- What is there more of?
Blogging about blogs?
Twitting about twitter?
Friendfeeding about friend feed?
Blog bashing twitter?
Friendfeed bashing twitter?
probably not twitter bashing twitter because most twitterbashing happens when twitter is down.
The irony in discussing this…