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kevin1 replied on August 21, 2008 06:09 to the question "Second Tuesday" in I want Sandy:

This question has been asked in a couple of other places.

http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Suggestion to use "every". Like "remember XX every Tuesday"
http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Ro11z replied on August 21, 2008 03:52 to the idea "Please remove the notice: "We're working to restore IM..." It's patronizing." in Twitter:

Wonder when they will take our updates them self away cuz twitter seems to think keep taking stuff away is a good idea

sure there having issues with scalability but thats your problem not ours so stop taking stuff away already

identi.ca FTW

robotfrog replied on August 21, 2008 03:46 to the idea "Please remove the notice: "We're working to restore IM..." It's patronizing." in Twitter:

"....assuming they still are, of course"

Captures the whole frustrating effort of sticking with Twitter.

Hey, Twitter staff, what are you doing besides for fixing database problems? Please. Many of us cannot recommend your product anymore if you fail to let us know what you are doing.

waffles started following the idea "Please remove the notice: "We're working to restore IM..." It's patronizing." in Twitter.

Epicanis replied on August 21, 2008 03:24 to the question "When will the device IMs come back?" in Twitter:

Twitter IM is supposed to be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever, I think...

Epicanis replied on August 21, 2008 03:19 to the question "Twitter IM not working in Google Talk AGAIN." in Twitter:

Is Twitter trying to "buy" an IM system from somebody and have foolishly agreed to an NDA or something? They're not even really "saying" that they're working on it any more, either - just uninformative "we're working on it" one-sentence statements from weeks or months ago which may or may not still be true. status.twitter.com has had the same message, verbatim, claiming that they're "working on additional capacity" for months, but no actual mention other than that anywhere that I can see.

Hey, Twitter, how about mentioning how restoration of IM is going on the status.twitter.com updates once in a while?

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...)

gya24jk replied on August 20, 2008 23:53 to the idea "Directly connecting IM to Sandy" in I want Sandy:

Totally agree.

My major interaction with iwantsandy is through command line entry e.g. "r pay bill tomorrow". Using twitter makes this "d s r pay bill tomorrow" which is OK. But... messy and unnecessary.

IM is a natural way to send these instructions to iwantsandy.

When on the desktop, and on the iPhone, I use mail.app to send instructions to iwantsandy, but desktop mail.app complains when I don't fill in the subject. Not a big deal, but also messy and unecessary.

What I might do, is create an Applescript that will bring up a dialog box for me to enter my command entry, which is sent to my iwantsandy email address.

I think a similar thing on the iPhone would be cool (i.e. click a single icon on the page, which brings up a page whose sole responsibility is to receive text data that is emailed to my iwantsandy account).

DalekKiller replied on August 20, 2008 21:17 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

It's all very well saying you'll unfollow a spanner but these things take time and when you get more than 6 in half an hour, it gets very time consuming. I've got no problem with legitimate companies but there are quite a few that keep coming back under different user names with over 2000 people that they follow. As they appear to have just joined, it makes a mockery of your limits

Yeraze replied on August 20, 2008 21:03 to the question "Second Tuesday" in I want Sandy:

Unfortunately, such syntax is not currently possible with IWS.

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

I agree, TheSterlingJoe. And it looks like the spammers have found a way to get around the current limits, anyway. They just set up multiple accounts, which is tons more annoying. – FamilyDoctorMag, on August 20, 2008 20:47

czebrda replied on August 19, 2008 15:45 to the question "How can I add an IM account to send twits from ICQ?" in Twitter:

thanks:) but i think the hostility isn't in order thou'. we still got our belowed Twitbin don't we:)

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.

czebrda marked one of waffles' replies in Twitter as useful. waffles replied to the question "How can I add an IM account to send twits from ICQ?".

waffles replied on August 19, 2008 15:33 to the question "How can I add an IM account to send twits from ICQ?" in Twitter:

Read this. Don't hold your breath waiting for IM. It's not going to happen until Twitter headquarters grows half a brain between who ever is up there.

Yeraze replied on August 19, 2008 15:02 to the problem ""Sept. 10" not parsing correctly" in I want Sandy:

I agree wholeheartedly, as i've been bitten by the same quirk numerous times. Eventually Rael will sit down with Sandy and explain the Birds & the Bees and Sept.. And then all will be well.. Until then, it's Sep or September, and nothing in between.

waffles replied on August 19, 2008 15:00 to the problem ""Sept. 10" not parsing correctly" in I want Sandy:

Sept. is a common abbreviation for September. I realize that I can use Sep instead and have it work, but the sports schedules for my school all have Sept. on them and it would be a lot easier for me if I could just copy and paste instead of having to go back and change all the Sept's to Sep's.

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.

robotfrog replied on August 18, 2008 23:00 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

The fact that Twitter still doesn't reply to this post about IM, or any other post concering IM, and that their status page only gets updated when they figure out another database problem, should clearly state their position on IM. Really, it's not like letting us know the status somehow helps their competition. I'm sure they're still coding the new IM content.

However, I'm still wondering how they intend to make income on this concept.

twin3rd replied on August 17, 2008 16:47 to the idea "Services you'd like to see added to Ping.fm" in Ping.fm:

Multiply, please