Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Stop the world…

I’m dying inside.

http://evhead.jaiku.com/

Hmm? The world is turning upside down…

funny, all i get when i go to jaiku.com (which i’d never heard of before, btw) is this:

[mdb2_error: message="MDB2 Error: connect failed" code=-24 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info="connect: [Error message: Too many connections] [Native code: 1040] [Native message: Too many connections] “]

Jaiku is down for me.

yep jaiku is still down here as well… suprising how you mention it and poof lol i could swear i was on it for some reason yesterday and it was ok

Has anyone else noticed that Leo’s last few tweets are no longer there? I’m not questioning that they were there (I saw them too) but now they are missing from Leo’s Twitter page.

Mike: Leo asked @Ev to remove his Twitter account. So, I’d expect all his Twitters to go away.

Jaiku is lame compared to Twitter. Sorry, any service that doesn’t support a Web interface is lame. If I wanted that I’d just go with Google’s Dodgeball.

I expect a lot of Leo’s fans will follow, but I won’t be one of them. I have enough to deal with just following email and Twitter.

Robert, since Twitter is getting all the press lately, I wanted to know what you think of a service I created with a couple of buddies, loopnote.com

It’s not quite as simple as Twitter, but very, very similar. I feel that a lot of the talk on Twitter/Jaiku also applies to loopnote, yet it never gets mentioned anywhere

Martin: where were you four weeks ago when we were all getting hyped up on Twitter?

I guess I was living under a rock

I looked at Twitter when it first came out and thought “hey, they’re doing something very similar, but it’s a little simplistic”. The what are you doing thing seemed strange at the time, but I think I see its appeal now.

Hint to marketers: when something is happening and 2,500 people sign up in less than a month (which is what happened to me over on Twitter) you better speak up when the movement is happening. Not four weeks after.

Sorry, Martin, but NO ONE has told me about your service. And I have hundreds of thousands of readers per week. The fact that you weren’t here screaming your head off tells me you aren’t very up to date on how markets work in the Web 2.0 world.

You’re right, I missed the bus on this one. I went for a little stroll, the bus came out of nowhere at an insane speed, stopped, picked everybody up, and by the time I got back from my stroll it was gone.

Lesson learned.

Martin: how could you miss it? Come on, dude, it was in the freaking Wall Street Journal.

Get onto the RSS bus. Learn to use Technorati and Google Blog Search (different than Google) and search for your name, your product name, your company name, your competitor’s names.

Also search Google News for your stuff and your competitor’s stuff.

The hype happened three weeks ago at the Game Developer’s Conference and SXSW.

Coming in three weeks later just ain’t gonna cut it. Sorry.

But, now that you’re here. You gotta figure out how to get some big fish to switch. You just missed your chance with Leo, since he switched from Twitter to Jaiku. I doubt he’d switch again (he really was the start of the Twitter hype too).

So, how you gonna get a few big fish to switch from Twitter to your service?

Robert: we were featured on Techcrunch back in December (http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/10/new-service-keeps-you-in-the-loop/), so we figured that people had at least heard of our service.

We’ve got some stuff in the works that we hope people will like enough to switch away from Twitter/Jaiku, or even better, use them together with loopnote (yes, it plays nice with others). I can’t give everything away here, but if you want to take it offline I could give you a little more background.

Martin

Martin

Many many companies are covered in Techcrunch, only a few of them bubble up to ‘discussion nodes’ like on Techmeme.

Martin: I read everything on TechCrunch, but don’t have time to try everything out. And, since when is talking to Mike the same thing as talking to Scoble?

screaming your head off

Hahahahha, yup, Web 2.0 in a nutshell. Presentational layers doing simple tasks, without infrastructual frameworks, screaming until they get funded or bought. Shoot up town, take off with the money, leave town before the Sheriff catches up.

Robert,
What I’m finding strange is that Leo’s Twitter page is still up (despite the request to have it taken down) but the two tweets that you quoted in your original post are missing. It goes from a tweet about Fastmail (20 hours ago as of the writing of this comment) to a tweet about his account still being active (5 hours ago).

@mike – the explanation was in one of Leo’s earlier tweets also. I remember him saying that when he attempted to delete his Twitter account, the ‘delete’ action only deleted his last post.

I can only speculate that he must have tried to delete the account a few times. And each time he tried, he only managed to delete whatever the latest ‘tweet’ was.

I’m not brave enough to actually try deleting my Twitter account to test my theory, though. LOL.

Instead of a bunch of proprietary islands of presence updates, I think an RSS like standard for updates would be better. Jaiku is crash-prone, but at least you can add a twitter feed. I suppose it’s similar to gaim in that regard.

This just occurred to me: for those interested in the deleted ‘tweets’, try grabbing the RSS feed for http://twitter.com/leolaporte before the account is deleted.

You’ll find the deleted ‘tweets’ there.

I noticed the very same thing last night and twittered it. Odd right? I did notice that Leo mentioned that when he tried to kill his twitter account it was just deleting his last post, so maybe thats the issue, but it is weird and unsettling.