Twitter, where I can have open conversations with amazing people.

Just had an interesting twitter @ exchange with Werner Vogels, who happens to be the CTO of Amazon. It's incredible how accessible Twitter, Friendfeed, and other socnets make folks such as he. Scoble proved that it also seems to be working in the US Government. Interesting times these are.

It's a Twit-Out! When Twitter Goes Down, Where Do You Go?

I go to Friendfeed. Apparently, so do a lot of other people. It's cool to see the conversation light up over at Friendfeed when Twitter goes down. I've seen this happen a couple times now. I find it a fascinating to see it unfold. Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE Twitter fan, but the outages are getting old, especially with the rapidly growing ecosystem of third party Twitter sites.

To send a message to Twitter, that we are sick of the downtime, some are suggesting a Twit-Out! A day where you boycot Twitter and move the conversation to Friendfeed (and possibly other socnets?). Thanks to Shay for starting this meme, and Bwana, Susan, and everyone else on Friendfeed who got the conversation going!

At this point, it's not entirely clear where we are "taking the conversation", but I think the idea is to boycott Twitter next Wednesday (May 21, 2008) and continue the converation over at Friendfeed. What do you think? I'm game. Not that I really think it will have much affect on Twitter uptime, but I'll be keeping an eye on the conversation to see where it goes.

I'm finding that there are somereally interesting conversations happening on Friendfeed these days and a Twit-Out! might be a great way to see how many people on Twitter will move their conversations to Friendfeed. I think there will definitely be some resistance to this idea by the Twitterati faithful.

It's unfortnate that we don't yet have DataPortability for syncing friends across socnets, because I have a lot more friends on Twitter than I do on Friendfeed. Either way, I'll be following the conversation unfold.

This weeks' latest craze. Friendfeed > Twitter > Quotably > Tweetburner

In case you haven't tried any of these sites out, I'd highly recommend you take a look. This is for anyone who is relatively new to social media, microblogging, and socnets (social networks) in general and hasn't yet heard about twitter and the amazing things you can do/learn from the twitterverse.

1. Twitter - the center of the interwebs. http://twitter.com

2. Friendfeed - the latest uber-socnet aggregator. http://friendfeed.com 

3. Quotably - new site that allows you to better track twitter conversations. http://quotably.com

4. Tweetburner - nifty new URL shortener, but geared for Twitter. Similar to TinyURL. http://tweetburner.com 

That's all for now.

PS - I so want to get this new gadget to compliment my Verizon EVDO USB modem.