Link is dead or down, I can't wait to read this!
Not sure what happened, sshing in to the server and poking around.
Thanks! G'Luck
Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
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Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#12Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#13Link is dead or down, I can't wait to read this!
Not sure what happened, sshing in to the server and poking around.
Probably your Web server OOMing the box? Check dmesg.
Apache-specific advice: if you're on a small VPS or other box with not much RAM, and didn't tweak the distribution defaults for MaxClients and friends in its configuration, a HN-size load will OOM you rapidly, especially with mod_php. The defaults for prefork MPM are nuts in the major distros (as in, assuming 4 GB of RAM or more for mod_php).
Since you're going up and down, I assume this is the case. I suggest dropping MaxClients to 5 for now and letting us wait a bit.
Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#14Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#15Does anybody have any information about the types of things that twitter did at first to market themselves?
This is a problem for me doing thingist (http://thingist.com)... the people who have found and signed up for it seem to have really liked it, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get more of those people.
(And I am an admittedly horrible marketing person)
Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#16Does anybody have any information about the types of things that twitter did at first to market themselves? This is a problem for me doing thingist ( http://thingist.com )... the people who have found and signed up for it seem to have really liked it, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get more of those people. (And I am an admittedly horrible marketing person)
Care to provide a bit more on thingist? I clicked through and at first glance have a few ideas of what it is but not totally sure what I would use it for. Without an about page or any precursor I would not sign up for something on a whim. Interested in checking it out though!
Also side note: The bottom pagination links do not work for me. I can click next page and get next page but if I select a number be it 2, 3, or 75 I get an empty page?
Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#17Does anybody have any information about the types of things that twitter did at first to market themselves? This is a problem for me doing thingist ( http://thingist.com )... the people who have found and signed up for it seem to have really liked it, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get more of those people. (And I am an admittedly horrible marketing person)
How about telling us (and everyone) what thingist helps us with. That'd help!
Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#18Interesting how he signs of with "keep twttring". I that email was written today it would have been "keep tweeting".
Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#19Does anybody have any information about the types of things that twitter did at first to market themselves? This is a problem for me doing thingist ( http://thingist.com )... the people who have found and signed up for it seem to have really liked it, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get more of those people. (And I am an admittedly horrible marketing person)
Care to provide a bit more on thingist? I clicked through and at first glance have a few ideas of what it is but not totally sure what I would use it for. Without an about page or any precursor I would not sign up for something on a whim. Interested in checking it out though! Also side note: The bottom pagination links do not work for me. I can click next page and get next page but if I select a number be it 2, 3, or…
Sure :)
Thingist is kindof like status updates, but with more context (and more available space [You can include a description of why you're posting it). Instead of a big bucket called "status", you separate things into different lists.
For instance, I have a list called "Good Bars in Phoenix" (http://thingist.com/t/list/65/)
or a list called "Adventures in Nerdery", which is mostly projects I'm working on (http://thingist.com/t/list/139/)
There are some global lists like "songs I like" (which get added to people by default when they register) (http://thingist.com/t/global/38/)
The example for a use case I always use is finding music that you've posted into the internet. I've been posing songs I like into facebook for 5 years, but as far as I know there isn't a simple way of pulling them back out.
Thingist [tries to] solve that.
But it's more than just status, at least it's a new approach to it. Somebody joined a few days ago, and started posting "things on the menu at a nerd themed restaurant". This resulted in neat sort-of back and forth between us: ( http://thingist.com/t/global/2944/)
(also: fixed the pagination buttons, oops)
Re: Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
#20I'll be the first to say... Thank you for putting the vowels back in your name. "Twttr" looks horrible.
The name has always been "Twitter," but they were wanting to get the SMS short code "twttr." Unfortunately for them (fortunately for us?) someone already had it. :)