Comments on: Scoble Interviews Twitter Founders Evan Willams and Biz Stone

By: Pouya

Pouya — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:41:37 +0000

it is very good thank you

By: Andrew Finkle

Andrew Finkle — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:21:16 +0000

IT would take one day to design a page for newbies , to explain what Twitter is (not what you think)… Some quick re-design (just html, not even code) would go a long way… not smart.

http://www.afpr.com/2008/08/wi.....nd-up.html

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:18:24 +0000

I’ve talked some smack in the past about the RoR thing with Twitter, mostly because the RoR podcast folks take jabs at other languages like PHP for no productive reason and come across as elitist bastards..

But I kinda feel bad for the Twitter guys now. I really don’t think they ever planned for it to take off quite like it has, so they didn’t set out to design it for that scale of user base..

I like Twitter (and Pownce too), and will continue to use Twitter, even with the occasional down-time.. I know that if any of my own sites suddenly started to get 10’s of millions of page views per day my database would fall over and cry uncle too.. So who am I to bitch about a little downtime. I hereby apologize to the Twitter guys for any smack I posted previously.

By: Qik Expands to Windows Mobile Platform

Qik Expands to Windows Mobile Platform — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:44:00 +0000

[...] become an an avid (and decidedly non-HD) Qik user (he recently used the service for an important interview with Twitter’s founders, defending himself by saying that he would have never been able to [...]

By: marks.dk – Twitter og den famøse arkitektur

marks.dk – Twitter og den famøse arkitektur — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:26:56 +0000

[...] fik Scoble til at gå amok på sin blog og især på FriendFeed. Senerehen mødtes de så og Scoble filmede selvfølgelig det hele med sin mobil. Derudover har Michael Arrington på sin sædvanligt nedladende facon som kun en advokat kan gøre [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:52:52 +0000

In all the talk about the, “douchebag wondertwins circle-jerking again about a service nobody but twats cares about.” (which I did find quite funny btw) this gem seems to have been lost.

Robert, note to self, buy another HD camera. Or cameras.

-Sean

By: Michael J.

Michael J. — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:52:39 +0000

Congrats to Ev and Biz. You clearly have a grip on the problem, and you’ll eventually, bit by bit, fix the bottlenecks. Twitter is cool.

Scobel and his sidekick, OTOH, just point out how easy it is to conduct a shitty interview. Full of interruptions and platitudes (”have you thought about opening it up to the community?”) it was entirely painful.

By: Twitter and the importance of architecture » mathewingram.com/work |

Twitter and the importance of architecture » mathewingram.com/work | — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:12:09 +0000

[...] not a database guy or a system analyst, but it seems pretty obvious that the structure Twitter has isn’t capable of keeping up with the company’s growth, and may not have been designed properly in the first [...]

By: wess

wess — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:05:22 +0000

Why not just use Noisewater (www.noisewater.net) some bloke built it on Google’s new app engine, and it seems to be in its early stages, but hey thats why twitter’s frustrating me has led to.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:35:21 +0000

@AF/Biz: Is this how it goes?

Biz: Hi. My name is Biz.

Normal person: Later.

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:16:54 +0000

Check out Sazell.com

By: Angry Fan

Angry Fan — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:31:41 +0000

@Peter: Of course they do. Take Biz Markie for example.

And he’s about as innovative as twitter is, and equally important to us all.

By: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:29:55 +0000

[...] Twitter has been cleaning house, raising money, doing interviews and actually talking to users. In a blog post last week they did a Q&A session, directly [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:17:17 +0000

c’mon, nobody really calls themselves ‘Biz’, do they?

really?

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:48:14 +0000

twitter guys are idiots just from me listening to this piece

i wouldnt be surprises if those guys stole those code like fb loser

the reason they are problems scaling it is because they probably stole code

By: Scoble me this, batman

Scoble me this, batman — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:42:37 +0000

Quick survey poll: in the upcoming movie about Scoble’s indefatigable journalistic career, who do you think should play him?

I offer Phillip Seymour Hoffman after he gets wanged on the head with a 2×4 about fifty times and a frontal lobotomy.

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:36:26 +0000

Bite me: most users of Twitter do one Tweet per day. Nice try. Also, TwitterVision doesn’t show all Tweets, only a random sample.

By: Bite me

Bite me — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:30:57 +0000

@Scoble: Oooh, a message every second. Wow, that must be really active.

Wait, let’s do some math:

60 * 60 * 24 = 86400 seconds in a day

average user twats 10 messages/day (to be generous, Scoble does probably 666/day)

86400 / 10 = 8640 users/day.

HOLY SHIT, that’s one active site.

Scoble, you’re too stupid to cover technology. GTFO already.

By: LaLaFuFu dotcom

LaLaFuFu dotcom — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:41:20 +0000

@Jimmy Dell, you are incorrect. We “all” are that whale…

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:13:40 +0000

Bite me: yeah, no one cares about Twitter, right? Then explain why I’m seeing a new Twitter message on http://www.twittervision.com every second. Got it.

By: Bite me

Bite me — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:12:38 +0000

Arrington, Scoble….yawn.

The douchebag wondertwins circle-jerking again about a service nobody but twats cares about.

GTFO already.

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:27:25 +0000

Michael: one other reason why I use Qik and a cell phone? Because I had tons of people watching WHILE I DID THE INTERVIEW and who were ASKING THEIR OWN QUESTIONS LIVE (people who leave a comment on Qik.com while I’m broadcasting have their questions show up on my cell phone’s screen while I’m doing an interview). That’s impossible using other technologies and is really important to the kinds of media I want to do. I don’t want to do what CNN does. I want to be two-way/interactive and use the latest Internet-only media types. Qik and Kyte and Flixwagon are the ways I’m going to continue to go for just that reason.

By: Jimmy Dell

Jimmy Dell — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:05:44 +0000

Scoble, they were totally blaming you, just being diplomatic about it. Listen to the words they said. You are the Fail Whale of Twitter.

By: Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Clearing the air with Twitter «

Sat, 31 May 2008 18:00:30 +0000

[...] on TechCrunch people are giving me heck for not using a professional camera. The audio is a little rough to get. I would never have gotten this interview if I dragged around [...]

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:41:05 +0000

Michael:

>>i think it would have been much better to record this with a proper camera and edit it. you had the interview exclusively, a few hours wouldn’t have hurt you.

One problem. I didn’t know I was going to do this interview until about 30 seconds before I did it. I didn’t have my big camera. My camera guy and producer, Rocky Barbanica, wasn’t with me.

I also didn’t have any sleep the night before, so was very tired, which explains some of the goofy laughing (it gets worse when I’m tired and/or nervous, and here I was both).

I agree it isn’t the best quality, but it still beats not getting the interview at all.

Also, we have two-week leadtimes with our HD camera. Yeah, I could put something to the front of the line, but it would have taken more than a few hours, probably wouldn’t have gotten up until Monday afternoon when the story would have been a lot less interesting.