mediaphyter: @Scobleizer Ha. Nice. :) less than a minute later reply fix threading

CrunchyCarpets: @Scobleizer I know...twitter is easy...plurk is fun but takes WORK! 2 minutes later reply fix threading

rreader: CrunchyCarpets: @Scobleizer I know...twitter is easy...plurk is fun but takes WORK!: CrunchyCarpets: @Sco.. http://tinyurl.com/5nj7ft 3 minutes later reply fix threading

Hank_DeBar: @Scobleizer HAve you tried Kwippy? 3 minutes later reply fix threading

SalesBlogcast: @Scobleizer I guess that's what happens to companies, organizations, "inventions" etc. that are on the "bleeding edge." 3 minutes later reply fix threading

CyberCoder: @Scobleizer I agree on Plurk UI, I wonder if it is just an issue for us older guys? 4 minutes later reply fix threading

abiteofsanity: @Scobleizer Twitter doesn't need defenders, it needs to be usable more than half the time. Too many whales and too many limitations. 4 minutes later reply fix threading

chrisabraham: @Scobleizer Hey Robert, it was great finally meeting you in DC at Spank! It was well over due, that's for sure. 6 minutes later reply fix threading

snapCandy: @Scobleizer I blame Pownce for killing my enthusiasm for social networking. I couldn't get it at all. Now I know it just sucked. Big time. 7 minutes later reply fix threading

gattaca: @Scobleizer I couldn't agree more. The devil you know. :-) 7 minutes later reply fix threading

charlieanzman: @Scobleizer Robert - Plurk has gained a lot of group (I think the UI is ugly too) but there's strong ongoing adoption there. 7 minutes later reply fix threading

Rammi: @Scobleizer I don't like Pownce, Identi.ca or Jaiku that much, but Plurk is amazing once you get used to the UI. 7 minutes later reply fix threading

trishussey: @scobleizer true to all those points,but this is still early days. Remember AOL? Compuserve? Pine? Elm? Email sucked then. Now? 7 minutes later reply fix threading

BlondeByDesign: @Scobleizer Hi Scobie! Happy Fourth to You & Family! *hugs* 8 minutes later reply fix threading

charlieanzman: @Scobleizer Pownce has a known issue with heavy volume followers as pointed out by Veronica the other night. Too bad, it's nice 9 minutes later reply fix threading

bowlerinaz: @Scobleizer yep...when operating right Twitter is still king!! :) 12 minutes later reply fix threading

hypercrypt: @Scobleizer Linux on the server is the *beep*! On the desktop it is coming along nicely too, Ubuntu is very good! OS X is the best though! 13 minutes later reply fix threading

gletham: @Scobleizer what sucks about Jaiku?? you should actually try it sometime! 15 minutes later reply fix threading

bostonwriter: @Scobleizer - I agree 100% Plurk's UI is as attractive as its name. 15 minutes later reply fix threading

BobStemen: @scobleizer thanks for kicking the others to the curb it saves me a lot of time 16 minutes later reply fix threading

igerard: @scobleizer preach it scoble! 17 minutes later reply fix threading

mentor972: @scobleizer And of course... Twitter is always down. 17 minutes later reply fix threading

Spinn12: @Scobleizer How is it trolling? Seems obvious enough to me, as a user of all of them, at some point or another. 17 minutes later reply fix threading

gailelaine: @Scobleizer maybe you really do love twitter and don't know it.. 21 minutes later reply fix threading

andrewho: @scobleizer with no offense to one @kevinrose of course 23 minutes later reply fix threading

rcphq: @Scobleizer i sorta agree, twitter usage seems to be resilient to fail-whale's mystic powers. loyal loyal base.. 23 minutes later reply fix threading

joeszabo: @Scobleizer For all the reasons why we bitch about Twitter, those are the reasons we love it. 27 minutes later reply fix threading

liamm: @Scobleizer Open source usually does kick ass. It's not always widely adopted though. Don't confuse the two 27 minutes later reply fix threading

tweelings_en: LOVE> @Scobleizer For all the reasons why we bitch about Twitter, those are the reasons we l.. http://tinyurl.com/5c9w8x 28 minutes later reply fix threading

radiofreesrini: @Scobleizer sometimes you strike me as the Lester Bangs of Web 2.0 !!! 32 minutes later reply fix threading

cemcatik: @Scobleizer Maybe because Linux doesn't really have giants behind it like Microsoft and Apple? 34 minutes later reply fix threading

thecolor: @Scobleizer plurk is only "ugly".. so why not use just the mobile version. 37 minutes later reply fix threading

gale_: Retweeting @Scobleizer: Why do I keep coming back to Twitter, even with all its problems? Because the competitors [...] all suck more. 37 minutes later reply fix threading

thecolor: @Scobleizer I too enjoy the vertical layout over the horizontal, but prefer the threads in plurk and "stability" over twitters "just tweet". 38 minutes later reply fix threading

thecolor: @Scobleizer plurk is more of a game as well as a communicative social network. Twitter, feels more like a "statement made" only type of SN. 38 minutes later reply fix threading

threethirty: @Scobleizer: when was the last time you ran Linux on the desktop, because I run Linux on my Desktop, Laptop and Nokia N800, and it kicks ass 38 minutes later reply fix threading

BMIML: @Scobleizer Isn't it also because FriendFeed lacks whatever it is that Twitter gets right? 38 minutes later reply fix threading

thecolor: @Scobleizer "Beat" is subjective (as is everything) it all depends on what the end user really wants from their soft/mach, no? 39 minutes later reply fix threading

thecolor: @Scobleizer I prefer in many cases to just save doe on the OS all together. 39 minutes later reply fix threading

jamesstorm: @Scobleizer I agree about Plurk. It looks like a gantt chart - that sounds like "work" 43 minutes later reply fix threading

simonpure: @Scobleizer I believe the mainstream end user doesn't care what platform he runs. How many iPhone users know what's running under the hood? about 1 hour later reply fix threading

ursulas: @Scobleizer I agree. Don't see the point if they suck. about 1 hour later reply fix threading

Spinn12: @Scobleizer For me, Twitter is perfect for what it's supposed to be. Save for the server issues, of course. about 1 hour later reply fix threading

pokai: @Scobleizer its July 4th...grab a couple beers and your family and go outside...enjoy your life, everybody is out now. about 1 hour later reply fix threading

twHIVE_W20: [-O] @Scobleizer sometimes you strike me as the Lester Bangs of Web 2.0 !!! http://tinyurl.com/5kpq3j about 1 hour later reply fix threading

tonysteward: @Scobleizer My issues: Pownce has no conversation, Plurk has no one I know, Idecti.ca = useless and what is Jaiku? :) - FF or Twitter plz about 1 hour later reply fix threading

rm_blogger: @Scobleizer I tend to agree. I've tried pownce and din't like it in the least. Twitter is simple and easy. They just need to get their i ... about 1 hour later reply fix threading

bjorntipling: @Scobleizer How do you track? I used to be able to do it with Jabber IM/Google Talk, but it doesn't work for me anymore. about 1 hour later reply fix threading

WDC: @Scobleizer LOL! Twitter is the best, if they could get thier act together. about 2 hours later reply fix threading

rjamestaylor: Aha. Now @Scobleizer 's comments against identi.ca make sense to me: http://is.gd/M6p about 2 hours later reply fix threading

sharemefg: @Scobleizer Ping.FM Robert all the kids are doing it :) about 3 hours later reply fix threading

davidsim: @Scobleizer I love Friendfeed, but want SMS texts. Please. Maybe I could write something to pull FriendFeed posts into a twitter account. about 3 hours later reply fix threading

hardaway: @Scobleizer Identi.ca isn't ready for prime time. It doesn't even keep me logged in. Pownce is good, but no one is there. about 4 hours later reply fix threading

hardaway: @Scobleizer And Twitter has the people about 4 hours later reply fix threading

sobrepownce: hardaway: @Scobleizer Identi.ca isn't ready for prime time. It...: ...hardaway: @Scobleizer Identi.ca.. http://tinyurl.com/6ng588 about 5 hours later reply fix threading

vlv: @Scobleizer NOT. about 5 hours later reply fix threading