DISQUS

Dawn Douglass · 2 years ago

A baby?! Oh my gosh!! Congratulations, Robert!!

Tony Chung · 2 years ago

Congratulations Robert! I'm super happy for you and your wife! =)

John Anthony Hartman · 2 years ago

Congratulations!!!!! Oh this is such great news. I am so happy for Maryam and you. Patrick will have a ton of fun as well with the bambino. Cigars for everyone! ;)

vrb · 2 years ago

Venture capitalist arent funding twitter because its a stupid small thing.

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

vrb: Is there an echo in here?

macbeach · 2 years ago

Slow? Is it even up? I decided not to try it until you had mentioned it at least 75 times. Happy "Scobleversary" Twitter!

But I can't get in. Couldn't they come up with a better name? I'm used to thinking of "Twit" as an insult.

Maybe I'll be able to use it with my new Sprint "smart phone" which I ordered with "next day delivery" a week ago.

Gabe · 2 years ago

Heh, how DID it get on Techmeme? It almost seems like there was a little engineering on your end... )

Gabe · 2 years ago

) = :)

Andrew Denny · 2 years ago

Sure, Twitter is a stupid small thing. Just like SMS was a stupid small thing.

Actually, just like email was once stupid and small too.

I still remember someone in the (London) Guardian about 1994 saying that email would never catch on amongst the populace, because 'by and large, it's used by computer users writing to other computer users about their computers'.

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

macbeach: I get in once out of 20 tries in the past hour. REally really slow.

Gabe: it was the most fun making news I've ever had! :-)

So, you're studying comment behavior, huh? Interesting!

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

Andrew: it sure does seem that all interesting ideas are derided as being stupid and/or small.

Dan · 2 years ago

Ack!! I have to have a Windows Live ID to comment on your wife's blog. No thanks, but I did want to say Congratulations on the pending arrival!! Enjoy every minute of it.

FixedR6 · 2 years ago

I don't think Twitter is a new form of blogging, nor IRC, and it's not an email replacement. It's similar to SMS in length but with a couple of very big differences; personality spam can work to a degree, but back and forth conversations really don't.

If you don't care about who sees what you write and have a very select group of friends, then you could use it to disseminate not-too personal information. You can't restrict who tracks your post however so this model doesn't really work once people realise that it's not private in the way SMS is. For that reason it seems to be heading more towards social commentary or idea generation, you're getting clumps of people with similar interests (Scoble is pushing 800) throwing up questions, or comments, or ideas and then getting feedback or forks.

Still early days, give it a month to pick up and we'll see how it shapes up.

Futebol Mad · 2 years ago

I'll be impressed with technology when tricorders are reality and OSes think and respond. Until then, OS X and BSD will do nicely.

Mack D. Male · 2 years ago

That's the biggest problem with Twitter...at times it is almost inaccessible. They really need to improve the performance!

Futebol Mad · 2 years ago

Twitter should be run on bsd beowulf clusters spread out over a few different data centers for redundancy and scalability.

The Populist · 2 years ago

what on earth is twitter? care to explain?

ET · 2 years ago

Congrats on the baby, and hopefully since you brought it (twitter not the baby) to their attention they will work on the speed thing.

Ronald · 2 years ago

Scoble, I always thought you were gay? Oh well, way to go man.

Kristen K · 2 years ago

I only saw it b/c it was on techmeme. Not online too much these days (haha). Congrats to you and your wife Robert!
Kristen K

LayZ · 2 years ago

@11 Yea, well at one time people thought CB Radios were a stupid small thing..and they ended up...uh...well..nevermind.. And weren't we all supposed to be walking around with Dick Tracy watches by now? Why hasn't that taken off? ;-). Point it,some things do end up remaining stupid and small, not matter how cool a small set of the population think it is.

neverness · 2 years ago

I guess the best thing twitter could do was create some kind of p2p based client which relais the messages around. As long as they keep is relatively small, don't put 2 much a burden on one of my machines they would be welcome.

And congrats to you and Maryam.

I just noticed you're message on Twitter, if I'm correct most developers of Joost are based in Leiden in the Netherlands.

Jeremiah Owyang · 2 years ago

Are the Twitter servers in bay area? Hopefully not.

What makes you think you'll be able to access the web during an emergency?

deannie · 2 years ago

I only looked at Twitter because you linked to it below and it looked busy and time consuming. I guess it is the right thing from some but it would require far more attention from me than I could afford during a regular work day. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.

Many Congratulations on pending new addition to the family. Patrick will forever be the cool older brother, what fun! This is really joyful news.

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

Jeremiah: because the Internet stayed up during the 1989 earthquake. Because I was IM'ing with people only blocks from the World Trade Center during 9/11. Because I was SMSing with Ernie the Attorney who was in New Orleans during Katrina.

Lots of our infrastructure will survive. And if it doesn't, I'll just walk to where it did survive to get stories out and in of the damaged area. Have Verizon Wireless, will travel.

Who Knew · 2 years ago

This is all hype - another "feed the sheep" buzz marketing attempt with the Scoble wolf masquerading as a personal blog.

I'm finding myself in Stefanie's camp more and more. Why do people constantly fall for this drivel?

Jim Goldstein · 2 years ago

Congrats!!!!
Twitter has been damn slow. I totally agree it needs to be scaled for massive traffic. As it stands it seems it's past capacity.