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RBLevin started following the question "Certain Images not displaying in GMail." in Google.

RBLevin replied on December 23, 2008 02:30 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

WHITELISTING is not available to non-developers. Per Twitter:

RBLevin:

Thanks for requesting to be on Twitter's API whitelist.
Unfortunately, we've rejected your request.

Here's why:

Apologies, but whitelisting is only for developer use.

Please address the issues above and submit another request if appropriate.

Thanks for your interest and good luck!

RBLevin replied on December 21, 2008 01:42 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Thanks Howardgr.

RBLevin replied on December 20, 2008 22:57 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Twitter could benefit from some simple managment features. For example, a basic database report on following/followers that shows name, # tweets, date of last tweet, etc., and allows selection of groups for unfollowing, etc.

RBLevin replied on December 20, 2008 22:43 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Is there any easy way to identify them and unfollow?

RBLevin replied on December 20, 2008 22:22 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

It's not noise if it's on topic. Of the 1800 I now follow, probably no more than a few hundred, if that, actively update.

Besides, I'm used to information overload. My eyes and brain are scalable.

RBLevin replied on December 20, 2008 15:13 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

No, but you do have to follow them to narrow your field of interest and squelch the noise. I'm personally not interested in what people had for dinner, but I am interested in reading what journalists, PR peeps, and IT peeps are talking about.

RBLevin replied on December 20, 2008 14:55 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Thomas, any reason you're so combative?

My Web site is http://www.rblevin.net if you're concerned about my credentials. I've covered IT for over 20 years. And I don't just "follow" people; I engage them.

And I have no problem following or interacting with 2000 people. That's one of the points of social media. It allows you to scale your personal network globally. I also have several hundred RSS feeds I track.

I don't use Twitter to read. That's for RSS. I use it to engage and build relationships with people who might become sources. And last I checked, the IT biz is a global beat, not a local one.

Please, chill out. Kick a ball, not me.

Thanks for pointing out where the answer is in this long thread.

RBLevin replied on December 20, 2008 13:46 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

HOW do I get whitelisted? I'm a journalist. I'm not selling ginsu knives, SEO secrets, or porn. Without being able to follow a many people on my beats as possible, Twitter's appeal becomes extremely limited to me.

RBLevin replied on November 10, 2008 13:47 to the problem "Find People not working?" in Twitter:

Thaks for the reply. Why not simply disable the users who abuse the system? Seems draconian to disable everyone.

RBLevin reported a problem in Twitter on November 05, 2008 03:27:

Find People not working?

Is Find People down?

RBLevin replied on October 06, 2008 12:34 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

People should be able to follow and be followed by an unlimited number. I can see restricting tweets and directs, but limiting the service's ability to serve as an information feed is nuts.

RBLevin reported a problem in Seesmic on September 30, 2008 12:14:

BUG: How to break mouse wheel scrolling.

BUG: Load Twhirl. Click window border to select app. Use mouse wheel to scroll through timeline. Click an URL in a tweet. Browser opens. Switch back to Twirl. Mouse wheel no longer works to scroll.

RBLevin started following the idea "Vertical lists don't scroll." in Seesmic.

RBLevin replied on September 29, 2008 23:38 to the idea "Vertical lists don't scroll." in Seesmic:

Didn't older versions support the scroll wheel? I could swear it was supported adn is now not supported.

RBLevin started following the question "Why can't I follow?" in Twitter.

RBLevin replied on July 28, 2008 18:31 to the question "When I log in -- I am going to Sessions?" in Twitter:

Might this be related to IE users who are using Roboform to automatically enter login credentials? Curious is this is a common element.

RBLevin replied on July 27, 2008 17:02 to the problem "XML page of last tweet instead of login page when logging in" in Twitter:

Two weeks now ...

RBLevin started following the problem "XML page of last tweet instead of login page when logging in" in Twitter.

RBLevin replied on May 21, 2008 01:30 to the question "May 20: Twitter Downtime" in Twitter:

what database? what was the failure specifically?

start selling ads already and beef up the infrastructure. twitter might be down now. but it's slow as mud most of the day. call it, "api drag."