Comments on: Save Twitter: Cap the Spammers http://indexmb.com/save-twitter-cap-the-spammers/ Ideas on Publishing Books in Canada (and other attempts to write good) Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:50:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Scoble Not The Only One Affected by Twitter Cap | INDEX // mb http://indexmb.com/save-twitter-cap-the-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Scoble Not The Only One Affected by Twitter Cap | INDEX // mb Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:24:46 +0000 http://indexmb.com/?p=188#comment-610 [...] a Beverly Hills house wife. At the same time the Twitter spammers were coming out of the wood work. I called for a follow cap of 5000 people — a similar number to the Facebook friends one user could have at the time. I figured it [...] [...] a Beverly Hills house wife. At the same time the Twitter spammers were coming out of the wood work. I called for a follow cap of 5000 people — a similar number to the Facebook friends one user could have at the time. I figured it [...]

]]> By: mb http://indexmb.com/save-twitter-cap-the-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-230 mb Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:33:49 +0000 http://indexmb.com/?p=188#comment-230 I understand wanting lots of followers -- that sure was annoying with Facebook -- but even if you want 12k people following you, you don't need to follow 12k people yourself. There is just no value in that. It is just taking up read/writes. If their problems are going to persist for months until the VC dollars kick in -- I say penalize the goof balls. I understand wanting lots of followers — that sure was annoying with Facebook — but even if you want 12k people following you, you don’t need to follow 12k people yourself.
There is just no value in that. It is just taking up read/writes.

If their problems are going to persist for months until the VC dollars kick in — I say penalize the goof balls.

]]> By: RJO http://indexmb.com/save-twitter-cap-the-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-229 RJO Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:17:24 +0000 http://indexmb.com/?p=188#comment-229 There are legit twitter users with over 12k followers and there are also legit uses of twitter as a micro blogging platform (election night coverage, etc) where this type of burst traffic should be viable within the service. Twitter needs to figure their architecture out and the use or misuse of the service should not be an issue. They have a decent amount of vcap and they need to spend it on fixing this horse crap performance. There are legit twitter users with over 12k followers and there are also legit uses of twitter as a micro blogging platform (election night coverage, etc) where this type of burst traffic should be viable within the service.

Twitter needs to figure their architecture out and the use or misuse of the service should not be an issue.

They have a decent amount of vcap and they need to spend it on fixing this horse crap performance.

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