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Reasons why blogging is better than Twittering

Submitted by JMB on Thu 06/Aug/2009

Although obviously both are a pleasant enough means to fritter away a bit of one’s free time.

Via Twitter Status Blog:

We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.

Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.

Via Wired:

Twitter was shut down for hours Thursday morning by what it described as an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack, silencing millions of Tweeters. It’s the first major outage the service has suffered in months and possibly the first ever due to sabotage. The outage appeared to begin mid-morning, EST, and affected users around the world.

Via The Register:

Twitter was knocked offline on Thursday after the site became the victim of a denial of service attack.

Users of the micro-blogging service are used to seeing the fail whale, a graphic that appears when service is over capacity, but this time around the site was left completely unreachable from around 1500 on Thursday (UK time).

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Quango heartily approves of Quango

Submitted by JMB on Fri 19/Jun/2009

The South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) would appear to have hired a new PR team, as they’ve gone all techno-fantastic and started doing “social networking”. Via their Twitter feed, I learn (in less that 140 characters) that:

The South West Science and Industry Council (SWSIC) supports the South West RDA's budget decisions - http://cli.gs/SNX9Tp

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But who are the South West Science and Industry Council? Well, they’re eighteen chaps, mostly administrators with universities in the area, career civil servants from grant-awarding government bodies and representatives of the South West Regional Development Agency. And their secretariat is to be found at 100 Temple Street, sharing offices with SWRDA.

So the “tweet” could more accurately be phrased as:

Government Quango supports Government Quango’s budget decisions.

Good to know.

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Twitter Integration #2

Submitted by JMB on Wed 18/Mar/2009

Drupal has a module to integrate with Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing:

http://drupal.org/project/twitter

The next release might do auto-TinyURL submission, but for this release it uses node ids. You can configure the module to use the pathauto-generated alias by adjusting the module weight (sql required), but watch out if you use long post names as this will just truncate the URL.

Quite elegant actually - the module adds an action which can be associated with a trigger such as "after saving a new post".

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