I didn’t think he would!
Earlier this week, Stephen Colbert took aim at Rupert Murdoch’s “The Daily” (an iPad app) and the Huffington Post-AOL deal. In the riff, he said that the HuffPo was “famous for its extensive, comprehensive coverage of things other people produce and put on the Internet” and announced that he was going to rip-off HuffPo. He has: http://colbertnation.com/ColbuffingtonRe-post.
What changed in how people read their Tweetstream while UberTwitter and Twidroyd were shut off from the Twitter API?
Twitter for Blackberry got a big (more than 50%) boost, which suggests that at least some UberTwitter customers opted for a new client. TweetDeck lost share, which doesn’t make sense (it wasn’t blocked) but moved up in ranking. Another ranking boost: the Mobile Web moved from position six to position five, suggesting some of those Blackberry and Android customers simply switched to their browsers.
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This is a map of the United States (it cost us $200 million) that depicts terrestrial mobile wireless coverage. As presented, the coverage appears seamless. I’m here to tell you that is not the case.
Last summer, we drove from Seattle to Minneapolis, in a meandering way. There were plenty of times that I had no coverage, period, because I am an AT&T subscriber with a phone that will not function on Verizon’s network. There were plenty of times when my iPhone showed that I had a data signal, but I did not. And there were plenty of times when all I had was voice, no data.
What other things might the map be hiding? The cost (for example, taxes on mobile service) perhaps?
Tip: Slashdot
Updated. To put into perspective the impact of Twitter’s having shut down UberTwitter and Twidroyd today, look at these data from TwitterSource for “last day” on the various ways people read their Tweetstream:
Shutting down 7 percent of your traffic?* Ballsy. That must be a serious policy violation: TechCrunch reports that at least part of the complain was trademark violation. From Carolyn Penner, Twitter’s spokeswoman: Continue reading
It’s legislation by budget fiat, and it’s wrong.
Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR, @repgregwalden), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, successfully introduced an amendment to H.R. 1 that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from using its budget to implement net neutrality rules passed in late 2010. A similar amendment lies in wait in the Senate, offered by Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and John Ensign (R-NE). Continue reading
