I won’t take much more of the …

Blaming the Apple tester is stupid! The guy who submitted the application should have written in the test case that Twitter service should be up and running for the application to run successfully. Simple!

Absolutely agree that I should have handled the not-so-edge-case of Twitter being down more gracefully, but why oh why make me wait another 8 days to go through the approval process again? *sigh*

Love the headline, btw!

Must be a Valley thing, over here in NYC, Twitter looks like nothing more than a RSS feed with fewer characters?

What part did I miss here.

NSString *s = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:receivedData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]

if ([s rangeOfString:@"Over capacity"].location != NSNotFound)
{
// here display alert
…

For example, have the application check Twitter status on-load and display a friendly “Twitter appears to be down” message vs/ the “wrong” error saying your login/pw is invalid.

We do something similar to this when Twitter isn’t accepting our API calls…we queue the calls and notify the user that once Twitter is back online, their message will be tweated.

Granted, I rather doubt the app store reviewer actually thought to check that, instead rejecting it because it wouldn’t connect, so it’s probably a case of making the right call for the wrong reason.

‘App got rejected because twitter was down’! OH MAN, CRAZZZZY!!!!! HE HAS TO RESUBMIT!!

CAN’ BELIEVE IT. TWITTER!!!!!

http://www.netw...ittercrunch.com

Look up an effing whois before you start spewing bullshit.

…wouldn’t matter if it’s Google’s API, an internal API that the developer owned or twitters.

Perhaps, instead of writing it so that people get *one too many* pieces of twatt3r coverage…you write it to cover the core, central issue:

Apple rejects iphone application due to API failure

See? I even rewrote the headline for you.

TC has 11 posts. 3 of them contain twitter. 2 of them specifically about twitter.

get the point arrington?

“don’t piss off the militia”

Negative.

Twitter, twitter, twitter, twitter.

I was going to reserve twittercrunch.com and redirect to you guys, but looks like MG already took it.

I think this comment rather summed it up over the weekend:

“MG is only human – May 9th, 2009 at 11:14 pm PDT
There are several recurring themes here that are surprisingly being overlooked – the twitter cycle is NOTHING new.

The first is that everyone loves being part of what is perceived “next big thing” (which MG has obviously taken hold of with Twatt3r “covering it for 2 yrs” – quite an investment). This creates bias. (find me 1 article MG has written that negatively impacts Twitter).

Now combine this passionate bias with vocal power through TechCrunch and you get 20 posts a day. This constant chatter builds brand awareness/mindshare and inevitably creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Interestingly enough, for whatever reason, humans are just as quick to tear something down they helped promote and build – enter all of TC’s nonstop rips on Facebook nowadays, pre 200M users/ we’re a staple on the net. Mark my words, once Twit has peaked, the tear down will begin.

Finally, adoption. Humans are innately born with without purpose. The internet created on a new, endless vehicle for people to occupy our time with. Twit is just the latest, most addicting thing. After “filling in our network” FB remains vibrant bc its a great stalking vehicle. Never fear Twit haters, the one thing you can count on, we are Americans and will be jaded with meaningless updates just as fast as Twit entered our lives. Then we’ll be off to the next time-sink. yay.”

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