Twitter doubly dead for some TMobile users
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TMobile is blocking Twitter SMS, but users won't notice since the service is going offline for 12 hours on Saturday.
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By DAVID TWIDDY    KANSAS CITY, Mo.  -- Sprint Corp...
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T-Mobile says an online attacker had gained access to its network. Also: Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university.
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AT&T's wireless data network is down in the Midwest and Southeast U.S.,  and BlackBerry and iPhone users are without data services. AT&T said service was expected to be back up soon.
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Bonjour mes amis! If you post a twit with my name in it following an at-sign that is exactly 140 characters in length, my little script will pick it up and add you Le Club 140. (Practicing my French!) For example... @davewiner, you are a very nice person and I enjoy sending you replies. I have actually nothing to say, but when has that stopped me before? If you posted that, your name would appear here... http://club140.org/  Of course you will be more original, won't you?  Meanwhile, in other news, Club 140 has caused at least one person to swear off Twitter forever. Too bad so sad! :-(
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T-Mobile USA, owned by Deutsche  Telekom AG , said on Tuesday it would offer unlimited  text messaging and voice calls for $99.99 a month, starting on  Thursday February 21.
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TechWeb - The unannounced service apparently targets teens and young adults, for texting and photo and video sharing.
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Micro-bogged news feeds While struggling to get its chip machismo back, AMD has decided to distract itself as much as possible by rolling out a new Twitter-based news service.â¦
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Does this down-and-out telecom have any juice left?
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T-Mobile USA, the U.S. wireless unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE), does not expect to offer broadband mobile data services for at least the next two years, its chief executive said on Thursday.
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Sign your Â£Â£Â£ away The search for more stuff to sell to mobile phone owners, who have had their fill of Crazy Frogs and versions of Tetris, continues with celebrity autographs from Mobile Fun.â¦
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Some Rhapsody users are huffing and puffing but the service won't let them in. Second outage since March blocks an unknown number of customers and some are frustrated that the company doesn't know when it will be fixed.
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Also: Treo troubles trigger Palm plunge. Read these stories and more from around the Web at News.com Extra.
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NEW YORK -- T-Mobile USA added nearly a million cell-phone subscribers in the fourth quarter, but full-year results fell short of its parent company's target.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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The social network Pownce, which acts as both a microblogging and file sharing platform, quietly released a mobile version Tuesday. While still in alpha, the new site narrows the gap between Pownce and its closest competitor, Twitter.
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Over the last 24 hours Twitter has been down as much as it's been up. As always this gives us a reason to think about what the world would be like without Twitter and then those of us who are engineers or would-be engineers, start thinking about ways to fix the problem, whatever it is. The Twitter folk say that the recent problems are related to an infrastructure overhaul. Of course I believe them, I take it at face-value. I think the MacWorld Expo outage was about traffic, I don't think last night's Republican debate took Twitter down. Anyway, I'd like to really understand what's going on behind the scenes at Twitter, Inc. They say they're confident the new infrastructure will hold up better, I'd like to understand why. Can we have a meeting, with a few people from the tech community who actively use Twitter and a few people from the company, to be briefed on what's going on. The same way the President briefs Congress when there's some kind of international crisis.  Twitter wouldn't exist without its users. Everyone wants to know what's going on. Let's have some real honest direct communication?