Productivity up 200%, Twitter is down

March 19, 2007 By

I’m off to my last video interview of the day, but lots of people have been sending me emails about Twitter being down — it’s already on Digg too. I can just hear the productivity of tons of geeks going up. I bet it’s less than a week before major corporations start blocking Twitter.

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  • http://joostschuur.com Joost Schuur

    Hard to block something that works on phones via SMS too.

  • http://dearest.cope.rnic.us Joost Schuur

    Hard to block something that works on phones via SMS too.

  • http://scripting.wordpress.com/ Dave Winer

    Heh.

  • http://scripting.wordpress.com/ Dave Winer

    Heh.

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  • http://blogs.msdn.com/danhub Dan

    Robert, I’m into this Twittering thing, but the problem is I wanted to twitter from a conference in LA this week (The CSUN Center on Disabilities Technology COnference) but I have been informed by a number of my blind customers and vendors that the signup for Twitter is in-accessible. The account creation requires a user to see the CAPCHA (the visual code input thing) for verification. There apparently is no way around it. Google has audio accessible CAPCHA, so does MSN, so do most mainstream signup services.

    Can you tell your friends over at Twitter that they are basically not allowing blind people to use thier service. And I think it is one that could appeal to a lot of people in the blind community as a really easy communication medium. Hopefully they can pass along a workaround or enable a non-visual verification tool.

    Dan Hubbell
    Technical Evangelist
    Microsoft Accessible Technology

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/danhub Dan

    Robert, I’m into this Twittering thing, but the problem is I wanted to twitter from a conference in LA this week (The CSUN Center on Disabilities Technology COnference) but I have been informed by a number of my blind customers and vendors that the signup for Twitter is in-accessible. The account creation requires a user to see the CAPCHA (the visual code input thing) for verification. There apparently is no way around it. Google has audio accessible CAPCHA, so does MSN, so do most mainstream signup services.

    Can you tell your friends over at Twitter that they are basically not allowing blind people to use thier service. And I think it is one that could appeal to a lot of people in the blind community as a really easy communication medium. Hopefully they can pass along a workaround or enable a non-visual verification tool.

    Dan Hubbell
    Technical Evangelist
    Microsoft Accessible Technology

  • http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/ Michael Markman

    only 200%?

  • http://mickeleh.blogspot.com Michael Markman

    only 200%?

  • http://douglaskarr.com/ Doug Karr

    Thanks for the chuckle! I loved the title of this post!

  • http://douglaskarr.com Doug Karr

    Thanks for the chuckle! I loved the title of this post!

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Dan, I’ll pass that along.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Dan, I’ll pass that along.

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  • http://rexduffdixon.com/ Rex

    twitter is UP.. life is good… and at least back to normal as we know it… what am I babbling about?!? twitter has us all mesmerized.

    Rex

  • http://rexduffdixon.com Rex

    twitter is UP.. life is good… and at least back to normal as we know it… what am I babbling about?!? twitter has us all mesmerized.

    Rex

  • http://www.deathrev.com/ Chris Hajer

    I don’t care *at all* about Twitter, never been to the site, don’t care to hear the minutiae and minute-by-minute updates (or whatever they are.) Since I’ve never used it, maybe I should ask my boss for a raise since my productivity never dipped :)

    I wonder how much longer this will be interesting?

  • http://www.deathrev.com/ Chris Hajer

    I don’t care *at all* about Twitter, never been to the site, don’t care to hear the minutiae and minute-by-minute updates (or whatever they are.) Since I’ve never used it, maybe I should ask my boss for a raise since my productivity never dipped :)

    I wonder how much longer this will be interesting?

  • http://www.gadgetvenue.com/ Matthew

    Thats an interesting way of looking at it Chris :) I might go talk to the boss too!

  • http://www.gadgetvenue.com Matthew

    Thats an interesting way of looking at it Chris :) I might go talk to the boss too!

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  • http://www.scottsigler.net/ Scot Sigler

    That’s the best headline ever. And I blame you, Scoble, for introducing me to Twitter and destroying my ability to focus – the cell phone buzzes all damn day, and I can’t … stop … checking it.

  • http://www.scottsigler.net Scot Sigler

    That’s the best headline ever. And I blame you, Scoble, for introducing me to Twitter and destroying my ability to focus – the cell phone buzzes all damn day, and I can’t … stop … checking it.

  • t

    If you really want to get away from twitter you’ll have to go relativistic because You Can’t Twitter at Relativistic Speeds
    (http://radio.weblogs.com/0103955/categories/stupidHumanProgramming/2007/03/20.html#a239).
    Just something silly that struck me while reading a science article.

  • t

    If you really want to get away from twitter you’ll have to go relativistic because You Can’t Twitter at Relativistic Speeds
    (http://radio.weblogs.com/0103955/categories/stupidHumanProgramming/2007/03/20.html#a239).
    Just something silly that struck me while reading a science article.

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