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IT WORKS! YAY! You're my hero! – svdodge, on July 22, 2008 05:32

Here's the second test: http://twitter.com/svdodge/statuses/864665370 Seems to have done the same thing. – svdodge, on July 22, 2008 01:23

Look like our image host is/was lagging enough to screw up that process. Try sending another pic. – Sean, on July 22, 2008 01:14

http://ping.fm/p/trqCo - picture test http://twitter.com/svdodge/statuses/864614914 – svdodge, on July 22, 2008 01:06

Could you paste one of the links?

Sean, Does MMS picture uploading still only work for Tumbler and Pownce? I just did a test, and my update got a ping.fm link but it doesn't work, it just sends me to the ping.fm login page or dashboard. – svdodge, on July 22, 2008 00:13

You can attack pictures to your updates by attaching it and sending it to your Ping.fm e-mail address.

You can send MMS messages and we will upload the attached picture as well.

Cant wait to be able to upload pictures..

Not quite a yes, but not a no... I'll continue to test but won't set up buddies until I know what will be part of the basic offering.... as while there is a good chance I will be willing to subscribe to premium offerings there is an opposite chance they might not .... and half a buddy system might be worse than no buddy system at all... – Bricoleur, on July 20, 2008 04:02

Thanks for the feedback. I'll make sure it's on our feature list as we're prioritizing the next releases. I know that our VP of Engineering would like this feature as well. :-)

Sorry for being late to this party. I will still chime in, however.

I do not know why everyone is so up in arms over this "JM Coon" person. He is somebody who is using scripts to increase his Twitter following. Some people do care, some people do not care.

I for one, do not care, sort of. More power to anyone who wants to rise above being average and become extraordinary. People are making assumptions or speculating without the necessary information. We do not know for sure who this "JM Coon" is. Some people claim he is and old man, some people say he is 14. This is the Internet, and people lie all the time to cover up their motives. I really do not care who he is. He is not important to me.

The part I do care about, however, is his use of scripts to try increase his following on Twitter. If you post crap, people more than likely will not read it. As others have stated, it is the content you post which will gain you a following, unless you are famous of course. When his scripts start to interfere with the normal functioning of the service Twitter is offering by increasing the load of those services, that is what I have an issue with. It ruins the Twitter experience for everyone when he, and those like him pull such stunts.

So in a sense, I kind of care but I really do not care. As long as I get to talk to my friends on Twitter, and they get to talk to me, I am happy. When the service starts to go all bonkers though, because some idiot is so starved for attention in real life, that they have to come online to get it, then I do have a serious problem. Remember MySpace? Remember the trouble some people went through to get friends. They purchased those programs that sit there and send out invites, and then MySpace had to step in and put limits on the amount of people users could invite in a day.

I think ultimately, if users such as "JM Coon" continue to abuse the service, then he should be banned for good. Twitter also needs to incorporate features into their service that can detect this type of abuse to prevent it in the future. They thus far, have done a great job with the service, although I am not really too happy that it has taken them this long to get it back to being stable.

So there - that's my two cents on this "JM Coon" issue. :) Have a great morning, noon, afternoon, or night.

Totally agree, it would save everyone *so* much time!

Don't worry! We appreciate our early users, especially those that have taken the time to help us build a better product. – Grant Goodale, on July 15, 2008 16:34

Good idea! I'll add it to our list of user-submitted feature requests.