How do I put a hyperlink in my updates? Is there a special code or do I need to put the whole web address? To save room, is there a way to say, "Click Here" and have "here" as the link? Thanks!

The last new entry is from 12 hours ago, yet I see my friends updates in the BrightKite Universe.

< caymaniac replied 7 months ago

There is a huge problem for some people like myself .. the international number is the UK number ... so you can Verify your phone and update your status ... BUT you can't SMS recieve updates as I think that info comes from the USA.
Int Dialing codes to say where I live Grand Cayman are different from the UK than they are from the USA. >

The above was previously posted on another thread. I recently verified my phone ( I am in JAMAICA). I was unable to do it through the short code so TECH SUPPORT had me send it to the UK #. So now I am able to update my status but I do not receive any SMS updates. Is there a way to resolve this.

For some reason I can't view all of my old twitters? I know I have more than 20 updates, but it won't let me view them..

I really don't understand how it is that Twitter has created this amazing network that spreads word extremely quickly but that they don't actually use the service themselves. When I joined Twitter last year there was definately a strong feel that the people who ran Twitter were actually PART of that community and not just running it. Back then there was a @twitter_status account that broadcast any messages related to the service and the users of the service always knew what was up and what was going on. It's a lot easier to tolerate a problem with a service if you are actually informed about it.

For the last few days I have seen many people complaining about not understanding why Twitter is screwing up the twitter logs on the web site. I find that there is a thread here but absolutely nothing has been posted to @twitter_status until this morning. Many of us still use our phones with Twitter and we rely on status to be pushed to us because, well, that's the whole point of twitter, isn't it? The same thing was an issue a few weeks ago when there was a problem with a firewall that prevented emails from going out. The service remained in this state for 2 days and there was absolutely nothing posted to @twitter_status until a little while after the problem was fixed.

I really fear that Twitter as a company is losing sight of what it is that they do. It almost seems as though Twitter wants to hide the fact that there are problems rather than own up to them. I'm seriously starting to get the same feel that I get from companies like Research in Motion who work hard on innovating but have a consistant habit of lying about any issues, denying issues, blaming issues on someone else, or just flat out ignore anything.

Most of us, as twitter users, understand that Twitter is having some serious growing pains right now and we are a community that wants to work with you to make this service better but the more we are left in the dark the less we can do and the more frustrated we become with the service.