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A comment on the problem "twitter not updating facebook status" in Twitter:

This worked for me a little while ago. But since Facebook updated (I hate the new one, anyone else?) the one Twitter update I've made (via Twhirl) hasn't updated the Facebook status. At which end does work need to be done to reconnect the two apps? – Lee Colgate, on August 28, 2008 10:59

A comment on the problem "twitter not updating facebook status" in Twitter:

This worked for me a little while ago. But since Facebook updated (I hate the new one, anyone else?) the one Twitter update I've made (via Twhirl) hasn't updated the Facebook status. At which end does work need to be done to reconnect the two apps? – Lee Colgate, on August 28, 2008 10:59

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A comment on the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

Haha, "the night" - that would've been awesome! Jack, any idea if this is going to get fixed by the end of 2008? :) – Chris Thomson, on August 27, 2008 00:24

A comment on the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

You have to remember with the SMS issue, you aren't paying for the service and it's costing Twitter loads of cash. As for the IM outage - there's no excuse, it should've been fixed faster. :( – Chris Thomson, on August 27, 2008 00:23

tosvar replied on August 26, 2008 02:52 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

If this were my problem to solve I'd look seriously at ejabberd as an IM interface to twitter. Fast, robust, scalable, distributed by design, plugin extension architecture. Perhaps they are... dunno. If they're not maybe it's the powerful but obscure erlang ejabberd is written in that's preventing them.

If you've not tried erlang, you should. It's free of saturated fats and good for the environment! (well... kinda)

Does anyone have insight regarding the solution the twitter crew is stewing for the IM interface brew?

It would be great to see an altered API or better yet, just reinstate twitterIM so that our twitbots can feel useful and get back to work without having to be rewritten.

Help prevent the global twitbot identity crisis epidemic and bring back twitterIM.

robotfrog replied on August 25, 2008 18:44 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

Hey, give them a break. They're hunting 'whales' without a harpoon. Twitter appear to be in perpetual 'patch' mode.

It's been said from many users in this forum that Twitter management and employees clearly don't give a rat's ass about notifying their user base that these IM features aren't coming anytime soon. Particular odd that a company based on a notification technology cannot even notify their own customers.

If they are coming, then why hasn't Twitter responded in months (plural)?

Mat replied on August 25, 2008 11:34 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

No SMS, no IM, no good.

As someone who helps to run an instant messaging server for 25,000 users at a UK University, and runs several bot services on it, I'm baffled that this can't scale easily.

Epicanis replied on August 21, 2008 03:07 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

Either they've buried IM entirely but don't want to admit it (hoping perhaps that some other service will come along and then they can abdicate responsibility to it without admitting they abandoned it) or they're trying to hide something. Otherwise, why not have some blog updates from the developers who are said to be working on restoring IM? I know *I* would be interested in what they're doing to try to solve the nearly-4-month-old outage and perpetual unchanging "Offline - working on additional capacity" claim on the status page...

Getting quite cynical about the lack of news on the two features that got me to sign up for Twitter in the first place (IM and Tracking...)

waffles replied on August 19, 2008 15:39 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

Does any one else find it hilarious that it still says that the company is working on the problem?

We know Twitter isn't working on this. And we know it's a pretty good possibility that they never will.

But until I can find something that will send me IMs as reminders, I'll keep bothering them about fixing it.

wiigee replied on August 19, 2008 11:27 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

i really dont get why its taking so long. I could have learned a computer language and fixed it by now. get on the ball guys! at the very least, keep people updated on what your doing, even if its in geek and most the people wont get what your talking about, its comforting.

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Alex Rodriguez replied on August 19, 2008 02:57 to the question "Updating Twinkle Nearby Profile" in Tapulous:

I am also looking for an answer on this. I changed my profile picture on Twitter but it is not registered on Twinkle nearby profiles.

Alex Rodriguez started following the question "Updating Twinkle Nearby Profile" in Tapulous.

Steve replied on April 13, 2008 00:21 to the problem "I can't confirm my google apps chat address with twitter" in Twitter:

I have the same problem. Since I have a special domain @____.com Twitter and Meebo both don't work. It appears if your IM doesn't end with @gmail.com both Meebo and Twitter ignore it. I hope Twitter support chimes in on this one and helps out.

Wagner Brahm replied on January 18, 2008 02:20 to the problem "I can't confirm my google apps chat address with twitter" in Twitter:

Hi, maybe have you do it wrong. Read this page:
http://forum.dreamhosters.com/3rdpart...

Work for me!

Alex Rodriguez replied on January 02, 2008 17:10 to the problem "I can't confirm my google apps chat address with twitter" in Twitter:

Well I just did some testing with Meebo and it worked great so the problem is not down to Twitter only. I will wait a day or so to let DNS clear itself out.

Alex Rodriguez replied on January 02, 2008 16:19 to the problem "I can't confirm my google apps chat address with twitter" in Twitter:

Ok, I will give it a day or so.

bibgeek replied on January 02, 2008 12:11 to the problem "I can't confirm my google apps chat address with twitter" in Twitter:

Well, it started working for me after a little while. Maybe it just takes some time for the DNS entries to propagate fully.

Alex Rodriguez replied on January 02, 2008 01:47 to the problem "I can't confirm my google apps chat address with twitter" in Twitter:

I am having the same problem even after I setup the SRV entries.