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steph says:

Why use SMS?

It’s push and immediate (I want that for my DMs or for some stuff I’m tracking — when it was possible).

It’s a higher priority channel than e-mail and the Twitter stream (which I don’t “get” on my phone: I go and look at them, 100% pull, because the cost of having them on all the time here is not acceptable).

Would I pay to receive DMs by text? I would, if I can control the cost.

steph says:

Well, I can see you’re not living in a country of bad data plans who’s just had Twitter SMS cut off.

I agree it’s a good business decision, but wouldn’t putting in place a paid alternative — see http://www.crushofthemonth.com/a/2008/08/no-more-free-tw.html been more of a reason for applause?

Right now, this decision leaves a huge amount of Twitter users stranded. Not nice. Makes sense, but not nice.

steph says:

Oh, what a shame! Getting messages by text is one of the great selling points of Twitter, for us poor people living in countries where data costs an arm and a leg.

steph says:

Très joli mais… bon sang, qu’est-ce que c’est que cette nouvelle mode de vouloir noyer le blog absolument?

Je m’explique. A la base, le blog, c’est une grosse pile d’articles les uns derrière les autres, dans leur intégralité (oui oui), et sur une page. L’avantage: quand on débarque, on commence à lire en haut, on continue, on continue, on continue… et avant de se rendre compte de ce qui nous est arrivé, on a lu 6 articles.

Bien sûr, faut pas faire des pages hénaurmes…

steph says:

I also get really tired of bloggers who complain (let’s call it like that) about the pressure to post and be out there. At least that’s one problem I don’t have (proof of it my regular — well, over the last 8 years — over-a-week blog breaks that I didn’t even realise I was taking).

Oh, I do the “<a href=”http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/07/20/i-need-to-blog-more/”>I need to blog more</a>” thing, but that’s more for me than because I feel pressure.

And just recently,…

steph says:

You guys are probably doing it, but I guess factoring in time and tweets into the limit makes sense. Somebody who has 3 tweets, a one-week-old account, and is trying to follow 2000 people is probably not legit.

OTOH, Roberts and Loïcs who have been around a while, are clearly active users, get significant numbers of @ and DMs… well, I guess those are hints that they are probably legit, even though they may follow a spam-like number of people.

steph says:

Elle marche pas pour moi simplement pour une question de “workflow” — c’est pas comme ça que je veux organiser mes cartes. Rien à voir avec la boîte qui est très bien, mais plutôt avec moi qui finalement ne veux pas une boîte :-)