Twitter Clones -- Deja Vu All Over Again
With all the talk of identi.ca, Plurk, Jaiku, FriendFeed, Twitter down time and the chatter from folks looking for a stable, full-featured social messaging service, I thought I might recycle an article from the archives. Please forgive me for the re-post, and the slight license taken in the translation.
From: k...@aimnet.com (Ken Sheppardson) Subject: Diary of a NewAimnetInsti.ca Subscriber and an Idea Date:1995/11/302008/07/03 Message-ID: [<49jabf$hj1@news2.aimnet.com>#1/1](http://groups.google.com/group /ba.internet/msg/d50b4c55c2330ffc?dmode=source) X-Deja-AN: 120577770 organization:AimnetInsti.ca Information Services reply-to: k...@aimnet.com newsgroups: aimnet.general,ba.internet Well I'm in my secondweekday as anAimnetInsti.ca subscriber. I'm not impressed yet. Tonight once again I'm unable tocall into their Belmon POPget my XMPP account connected. (Only the second time, which puts this problem relatively low on my list.) It keeps rejecting my login, so I'm in throughSFJaiku again. No answer on the first call, but I'm in on the second. What's wrong withBelmontInsti.ca I wonder. No explanationin aimnet.announceon Lucindi.ca or any otheraimnet groupFriendFeed room. It seems the support staff doesn't read (or at least doesn't post to) their owngroupscorporate site. It's been five or ten times now that I've seen the "Server does not have a DNS entry" message fromNetscapeFirefox when I try to accesshttp://www.aimnet.com[www.identi.ca](http://www.identi.ca). Strange that their own name server doesn't have an entry for their web server. Ah...there it goes. In general I seem to be batting 30% or so in hitting outside sites on the first try. What's wrong with the DNS server, I wonder. It only takes 45-60 seconds for my home page to come up when I tryhttp://www.aimnet.com/~kens, [http://identi.ca/kshep](http://identi.ca/kshep)although it comes up pretty much instantaneously when I try users.aimnet.com. Why so long to redirect?Many problems. I'd suggest people stay away at this point. Of course I don't know if this is typicalin the bay areaor not. I've certainly had more problems than I did with my previous provider:Msen, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Jaiku, now part of Googlemsen.com of course they had their share of problems too...this certainly isn't an ad for them) If there's anybody out there looking to provide a great service to the Internet community, I've got an idea for you: Get an account with everyISPTwitter clone you can find. At regular intervals try to log into each, check mail, read news, check web pages, check the number of entries in passwd files, check disk usage %s on /usr volumes, then compile stats on problems, busy signals, etc. Put it all together in a monthly newsletter (real paper even) andsell it in area bookstores, computer stores, coffee shops, and anywhere else you can think of.give it away on your blog. I, for one, wouldpay somebody $10 or so right this second for a current copy.leave you a comment.
Whadya think?