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Here's the two people he's requesting subpoenas for:
http://twitter.com/bfbarbie
http://twitter.com/CasablancaPA

Let's see if we can make them go from 300-500 followers to 3,000-5,000.

I can't believe he's making such a huge stink over someone with a few hundred followers.

boxee watched the Google TV demo. more complementary than competitive. we should start working on Boxee Android App for TV... :)

http://twitter.com/google
http://www.facebook.com/Google

Balls. Didn't work. Please mod into oblivion. Worked on Twitter though: http://twitter.com/_The_Geoff_

Its got a pretty web gui and everything.

http://www.twitter.com/

Yes, I'm trolling, but its still true!

So what should you do? Stop using Twitter?

Not a bad solution, this link claims locking your twitter account would also work.

http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discovered-remedied

Twitter says they have resolved this bug. http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discovered-remedied

I have an easy way to fix it: Cancel your Twitter account.

Twitter says they have resolved this bug.

http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discovered-remedied

It's not so much fixed as unreproducible by way of disabling the entire "follow" feature. The twits are in a panic, wondering if they've offended people since their followers have all disappeared.

Twitter says they have resolved this bug. http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discovered-remedied

http://twitter.com/Dezzish/statuses/13709105297

Will Voyager 2 be able to keep up with its Twitter account? http://twitter.com/Voyager2

"It is no longer necessary to write new stories about Facebook privacy issues; just change the dates."
http://twitter.com/FakeAPStylebook/status/13363923255

No, but Verizon decided to congratulate Comcast on their win. Although Verizon really shouldn't be gloating since their own terrible service saw them nominated as one of the 32 worst companies and got knocked out in the first round by AT&T.

http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays eh? Nice one. Some apparent crudity, but had some darn useful things to say if you can see through that. [FWIW, I'd say something similar about South Park]

http://twitter.com/RevRunWisdom (yeah, that's the Run from Run-DMC :P)
Even if you aren't much for religious messages, a lot of his stuff just plain makes sense.

(I'm KingAlanI on twitter as well; I'm not going for serious inspiration, LOL)

http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays eh? Nice one. Some apparent crudity, but had some darn useful things to say if you can see through that. [FWIW, I'd say something similar about South Park]

http://twitter.com/RevRunWisdom (yeah, that's the Run from Run-DMC :P)
Even if you aren't much for religious messages, a lot of his stuff just plain makes sense.

(I'm KingAlanI on twitter as well; I'm not going for serious inspiration, LOL)

It's great to hear that, like any communication channel, that Twitter can have quite serious purposes. I've noticed a bit myself in a much less grave context - for example, Twitter noise on the matter has sometimes been the first to point out various news stories to me.

And even if your main use for it is another way to goof around, then what's wrong with that? :)

http://www.twitter.com/KingAlanI

Ask Michael Yon.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
http://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage
http://twitter.com/michael_yon

He's been pretty active on Twitter lately. Doesn't seem like the thing one would do if they're "dropping out of public life". http://twitter.com/therealNimoy

Also, Jason Chen pointed out:

"The point was to help him KEEP his job. Apple already knew he lost it, now everyone knows. Public scrutiny helps pull back the veil"

I have to hope they asked Gray before releasing his name since the ding to his reputation may be worse than losing his dream job. Yes, maybe if Apple was already going to fire him, they'd have already done so a month after losing the thing. However, the Giz hitting the fan might have changed the situation.

Or, it was a purposeful leak, and he's got a little bonus coming in his next check.

1. Develop beautiful, functioning prototype for hot next gen gadget.
2. Drop said prototype in a bar in the middle of tech heaven.
3. Wait for tech media outlet to predictably get hold of prototype.
4. ???
5. Profit!!!

Ok.. Jeff Foust is a great guy to follow if you're into spaceflight. He goes to all the conferences.. reports what he hears. He also makes up the hash tags and most people follow his lead. Hash tags seem to work but they're primitive and they take up valuable characters. Twitter doesn't seem to know how to separate metadata from message. The list functionality they've added recently is interesting. Being able to save searches is also interesting. As for third party clients... yeah, the website is superior, imho.

I didn't think that Flash was a problem because of Apple's high "Not Invented Here" mentality. I thought it was because they want to to keep applications that are programmable off of the iPhone to prevent device hijacking and other not so fun things from happening to customers' iPhones. Anyone have some concrete information on this?

Adobe wasn't able to produce a decent player for OS X in terms of security and performance. Do you think they are going to keep up with iPhone updates? They won't, but they don't care either, because anything special on one device, can't be ported to another. And their intention is to get a piece of the mobile market cake, not just to run on the iPhone. So the expected result will be applications featuring the lowest common denominator of all devices. So it's basically, you let me get to a position of power over your platform and I will give you sub standard applications in return. Not a good deal.

So foreseeing that, Adobe used the cry baby Lee Brimelow to create public opinion against Apple. Example: Flash is slow because evil Apple won't provide accelerated h264. That's a lie, you have accelerated video using the Quicktime API (which they finally use in the next Flash player), but don't expect a security nightmare like the Flash player to get direct hardware access just because you are Adobe. Not even if you really really want the chance to control the video codec to keep your options open.

And then there is the "work for a more ethical company", and "screw you Apple". No Adobe, YOU go be ethical creating a decent player for OS X, and forcing your tools into someone else's platform.

Kile Orton's (of Chicago Bear & Denver Bronco 'Fame') Twitter is the quintessential collection of tweets ever. I hope it gets highlighted. NECKBEARD FOR PRESIDENT! http://twitter.com/Kingneckbeard

TWOOP!

http://twitter.com/twoop

Math for the day:

Without compression, all tweets in human history will fit on a single hard drive costing less than $100.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=a (to find the latest tweet number)
http://twitter.com/about (character limit)
http://www.pricewatch.com/hard_removable_drives/ (1.5TB drive)Delete

http://www.google.com/buzz/fulldecent/18tfNfPHSBp/Math-for-the-day-Without-compression-all-tweets-in

Math for the day:

Without compression, all tweets in human history will fit on a single hard drive costing less than $100.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=a (to find the latest tweet number)
http://twitter.com/about (character limit)
http://www.pricewatch.com/hard_removable_drives/ (1.5TB drive)Delete

http://www.google.com/buzz/fulldecent/18tfNfPHSBp/Math-for-the-day-Without-compression-all-tweets-in

http://twitter.com/mzzt/status/12179834899

It had to be done.

Forget Buzz. Give me an astronaut I can relate to and admire...

http://twitter.com/RichardGarriott/status/12163859542

Is that you, Kaiji?
I hardly consider twitter respectful, but even you knock it down a notch.

Corporations already advertise on twitter, for free! Look at nike plus twitter feed http://twitter.com/Nikeplus
They make proper use of channels too so it's already targeted ads!

and this has certainly something to do with it

Bruce Schneier is also wondering what cipher they used.

Followed up by http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/9412020034 a few months back

"Finally cracked the encryption to US military video in which journalists, among others, are shot. Thanks to all who donated $/CPUs."

I was under the impression that they sniffed a satellite feed, and created a BOINC project to crack the key.

maybe this has something to do with it?

Dave Winer's 1-Tweet review: 'As much as it pains me to say it -- this fcuker is pretty fcuking cool.'

There other other sources than The Register, including posts by Twitter devs linked from the Scala language site.

More likely Wikileaks than Pirate bay, especially with recent release of highly questionable CIA documents plus the imminent release of that video.

http://twitter.com/pinskia/status/11230057232

This isn't looking good.

The artilce includes a sample of Twitter tweets, all in Chinese. Unfortunately, just entering the Twitter search URL into Google translator doesn't seem to work, as the "Realtime results for Netnod" (http://twitter.com/search?q=Netnod) are apparently served via JSON or something. Anyone got any ideas?

It's called select, copy, and paste.

And you go to Slashdot for news?

The artilce includes a sample of Twitter tweets, all in Chinese. Unfortunately, just entering the Twitter search URL into Google translator doesn't seem to work, as the "Realtime results for Netnod" (http://twitter.com/search?q=Netnod) are apparently served via JSON or something. Anyone got any ideas?

Nice idea

But

1) When are ISP's going to get off their Fat backsides and implement IPV6? Most in my part of the world have no plans to do this for 1-2 years.

Mine already has. I get Google and Youtube via IPv6.

2) When are the DSL Modem makers going to implement IPV6 in the devices that are sold to the majority of us?

Shame that it ain't going to get a lot of use outside the corporate world.

I'm running native ipv6 over ADSL PPPoE right now (sure, it's a cisco 877..). But there's an OpenWRT custom build that does the exact same thing if you have a modem to run in bridge mode. There seems to be an all-in-one router on the way: http://twitter.com/bigjsl/status/11082108182

The only problem I've had so far has been Windows 7 not liking newer versions of Cisco IOS - 12.4-24T and 15.0 both have some issue with route advertisment. Funnily enough, there's no problem with WinXP, Linux, or FreeBSD. Only Win7 (and possibly Vista, which I don't have).

Actually, Twitter is not Unicode-safe.

What happens is you can post a Tweet with astral-plane glyphs and it all appears to work fine, but mysteriously --- a week or so later --- the astral-plane glyphs just vanish. (I don't know if this happens to basic-plane glyphs; I haven't tested it.) I suspect what's happening is that they have different short-term and long-term storage systems, and the long-term systems don't handle Unicode properly.

For example, see this message. That one lasted for about two weeks before the last word vanished. I should probably go hunting for a bug report form...

Actually, I’ve perused the Twitter help pages and it doesn’t seem to use secret questions at all... it looks like it sends a password reset to your e-mail address via this interface. So to get into the Twitter account, you’d first have to get into the e-mail account that it was registered under... which seems to contradict the story, which said that he posed as a Twitter site administrator and got access by answering secret questions.

I’m going to need more data before I can rule on this one...

I believe I've found the source of the taste drain.

Perhaps, but everything old is new again. Would you have thought back in 1999 that we would be sending messages to each other using a proprietary centralized system with 140 statically allocated character arrays? I don't think so.

I was watching Sky News today and the tech correspondent reported it was 25 years ago since Tim Burners-Lee invented the Internet. Ugh.

https://twitter.com/simonhowes/status/10514026928

Orcon's stance seems to be "We're not implementing it, yet." http://twitter.com/Orcon/status/10339783484

... the article linked in the story starts off by debunking the submission.

UPDATE (March 10, 12:45am PST): With thanks to Prof. Jon Butterworth, member of the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC, I've been informed that the plan to shut down the LHC for an extended period of time was actually announced in early February by Dr. Steve Myers after the LHC Performance Workshop, in Chamonix, France. So rather than this being a sudden development, it is part of a planned shutdown.

Prof. Brian Cox, also an ATLAS physicist, confirmed this fact via Twitter:

There is nothing wrong with LHC - lazy journalism. Schedule announced in Jan, 18 months physics, 12 month engineering shutdown afterwards.

Cox pointed out that accelerator shutdowns are more routine than the BBC article (the source of this blog post) suggests:

ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how complex machines are operated!

... the article linked in the story starts off by debunking the submission.

UPDATE (March 10, 12:45am PST): With thanks to Prof. Jon Butterworth, member of the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC, I've been informed that the plan to shut down the LHC for an extended period of time was actually announced in early February by Dr. Steve Myers after the LHC Performance Workshop, in Chamonix, France. So rather than this being a sudden development, it is part of a planned shutdown.

Prof. Brian Cox, also an ATLAS physicist, confirmed this fact via Twitter:

There is nothing wrong with LHC - lazy journalism. Schedule announced in Jan, 18 months physics, 12 month engineering shutdown afterwards.

Cox pointed out that accelerator shutdowns are more routine than the BBC article (the source of this blog post) suggests:

ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how complex machines are operated!

... the article linked in the story starts off by debunking the submission.

UPDATE (March 10, 12:45am PST): With thanks to Prof. Jon Butterworth, member of the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC, I've been informed that the plan to shut down the LHC for an extended period of time was actually announced in early February by Dr. Steve Myers after the LHC Performance Workshop, in Chamonix, France. So rather than this being a sudden development, it is part of a planned shutdown.

Prof. Brian Cox, also an ATLAS physicist, confirmed this fact via Twitter:

There is nothing wrong with LHC - lazy journalism. Schedule announced in Jan, 18 months physics, 12 month engineering shutdown afterwards.

Cox pointed out that accelerator shutdowns are more routine than the BBC article (the source of this blog post) suggests:

ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how complex machines are operated!

They acknowledged that they had shipped non functional units on Friday:

http://twitter.com/Newegg/status/10050889498

They probably would have done better to say less, but they never denied the issue entirely.