{"id":28396,"date":"2012-06-21T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/fail-whale-watching.html"},"modified":"2012-06-21T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:53:17","slug":"fail-whale-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/fail-whale-watching.html","title":{"rendered":"Fail Whale Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s noteworthy about Twitter being down is not just Twitter being down, but Twitter-based services. So, for example, I usually log into Disqus commenting services via my Twitter account (I decline to do so with either my Google or my Facebook account, for different reasons). \u00a0But that&#39;s not working, either.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well &#8230; I guess this means I need to focus on real work. \u00a0And maybe a soda in my Fail Whale Ale pint glass.  <a class='ot-hashtag' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23TwitterDown'>#TwitterDown<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106790394183446968954'>David Badash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthenewcivilrightsmovement.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F06%2Ffail-whale.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/breaking-twitter-broken-entire-platform-down-outages-worldwide\/news\/2012\/06\/21\/41913'>Breaking: Twitter Broken. Entire Platform Down, Outages Worldwide.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYes, it\u2019s true, Twitter is broken. The 140 characters platform that has become as ubiquitous as \u201cCoke\u201d and \u201cMac\u201d has been down for more than 30 minutes, forcing people to actually look at Facebook and&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/UWbYDe5KuiD' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s noteworthy about Twitter being down is not just Twitter being down, but Twitter-based services. So, for example, I usually log into Disqus commenting services via my Twitter account (I decline to do so with either my Google or my Facebook account, for different reasons). \u00a0But that&#39;s not working, either. Oh, well &#8230; I guess &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/fail-whale-watching.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fail Whale Watching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-28396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-twitterdown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":159970,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/13\/giving-up-the-bird.html","url_meta":{"origin":28396,"position":0},"title":"Giving (up) the Bird","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-22 12:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"A Farewell to Elons.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"Mastodon icon","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mastodon-icon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mastodon-icon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mastodon-icon.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mastodon-icon.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/in-the-market-for-a-multi-account-twitter-client.html","url_meta":{"origin":28396,"position":1},"title":"In the market for a multi-account Twitter client","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Sep-09 7:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I already have two Twitter accounts -- one for \"me\" and one for my Blog of Heroes blog. 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