{"id":117,"date":"2008-05-29T06:38:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=117"},"modified":"2008-05-29T06:38:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:38:59","slug":"twitter-problems-reconsidering-jaiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2008\/05\/29\/twitter-problems-reconsidering-jaiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Problems – Reconsidering Jaiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter’s<\/a> had a number of problems lately. Seems it all started when they had the system down for upgrades a couple of weeks ago. Since then they’re on par with Second Life<\/a> for technical problems. The two blur together for me: is it Twitter that has the database problem, with Second Life affected by VPN connections between servers, or is it the other way around?<\/p>\n

All of this has me looking for alternatives. I don’t think I could stand Pownce<\/a> again. I never liked the design and their AIR client was too buggy.<\/p>\n

Jaiku<\/a> was worth another look, though. It’s missing my social network, but overall it wasn’t as awkward as Pownce. My biggest problem with Jaiku was that I kept getting redundant Twitter feeds hours after the fact.\u00a0 A Tweet from D’Arcy<\/a> would echo from Alan<\/a> and Andy<\/a> long after I’d seen it, with the attribution confused. It was like an echo chamber, with no way to stop. So I stopped watching.<\/p>\n

But with Twitter in trouble I thought it was worth another look. And I’m glad I stopped by.<\/p>\n

First thing I noticed was a note from Jaiku itself (1 month, 2 weeks ago no less):<\/p>\n

Jaiku will be moving to the new Google App Engine. More on the Jaiku blog: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3o2kkr<\/a><\/p>\n

I figured by this point the move would be done. So what had changed? The first thing I checked was if I could use SMS on my iPhone to send Jaikus. Back in the day, it just didn’t work. My only choice was to have a Safari bookmark, which I didn’t like. Now? The test message went through, I was able to reply, and now I can use SMS to sent to Jaiku.<\/p>\n

More importantly, as I started browsing my friends, I noticed an option for each feed they send to Jaiku: I can unsubscribe from just that feed. So now I can get Alan’s Jaikus, his Flickr stream, but not his Twitter feed or CogDogBlog if I don’t want.<\/p>\n

That’s exactly the kind of control I would need for Jaiku to work. And so I’m back. Not giving up on Twitter yet – I’ve been playing with brightkite<\/a> lately and like the ability to send posts to Twitter – but I am going to post to Jaiku more, just to see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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