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Bitchmemes Can Work: Twitter Responds – and Sends Out My JSON File?

My fellow Twitterites, our long international nightmare is over. Well, not really. But we did get Twitter to at least acknowledge the problems they are having in a meaningful way – both on their blog and in a little yellow box on the site as I suggested a few hours ago. They’re even now posting updates to the story on the blog and provide links in both places to the GetSatisfaction forum.

Had Twitter just done this a few days ago, the issue may have not gotten so big. Sure, people still would have bitched up a storm – but I probably would have written only 1 post instead of now 3. I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but this makes me wonder if Twitter just didn’t hope that no one would notice there was an issue. Of course when their API is sending out data and sites like FriendFeed are pulling it in correctly, it would have been fairly obvious to everyone after a few days – as it has been.

Speaking of conspiracies, what is up with this? Ian Lamont of The Industry Standard tried to login to his account earlier and kept getting prompted to download a parislemon.json file. A commenter of his had the same issue as well. Is Twitter after me? Are they sending my JSON data file to unsuspecting users in an attempt to silence me?

I cannot be silenced! At least not until Twitter is fixed and I’m too busy using it rather than writing posts bitching about Twitter.

Post by MG Siegler on 04/21/08
Comments

MG Siegler

@charbarred - that's how I like to think of myself - as a bug or a test subject :)

Charbarred

heh heh, that sounds like a couple of programmers created a parislemon json file to test out the bugs and once it was fixed that file ended up on the system as the official json file for everyone.
Who knows, maybe that bug is named the ParisLemon bug at Twitter HQ :-)

Quasi

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