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Twitter is broken. Thanks @JamesKirk

Twitter, originally uploaded by willnorris.

Has twitter always had the “blog this” option right from their web pages? I thought at one point I had added a GreaseMonkey script that would allow that to happen.

Anyway, this image was captured by our friend Will Norris, just to show his gratitude at my tweet of exactly 140 characters. Unfortunately, most of those characters were not broken by spaces, causing any page that my tweet showed up on to be jacked all to hell!

Taking bets on how long it takes the great folks at Twitter to fix this with an overflow: hidden in their css (or some other equally groovy solution)

Geesh, and I was just trying to be me. At least I’m not known as Glitch, hey Joseph?

03/30/2008 | Notes | Comments

2 Responses to “Twitter is broken. Thanks @JamesKirk”

1. Posted by: James D Kirk - 03/30/2008

   Unfortunately, Will Norris posted a nice follow up comment here, however, Spam Karma flagged it as spammy (though for the life of me, I wasn’t able to figure out why.) And when I marked it “not spam” (really, Will, I did mark it!) the system just vanished his comment! Poof! I did take a screen grab of it, as I was going to follow up his comment with a copy of that grab. I’ll post it right after this comment.

   I’m amazed at how much faster Google is getting at indexing blog posts now, as evidenced by this grab:
   

2. Posted by: James D Kirk - 03/30/2008

   Is he?
   

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