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4 months ago

in Twitter: Please Charge me for Biz Tweets instead of Suspending my Account! on Gabriel Weinberg's Blog
How would that work when you read the tweets via a third-party client (e.g. TweetDeck)?
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Gabriel Weinberg If it were tied to the click, it could run through a redirect and record the click in the process like bit.ly does. Otherwise, maybe it could count as reading if the API requested the tweet, i.e. assumed read. Getting paid tweets would presumably be turned off by default, so if it was requested I think it would be fine to assume it was read.

9 months ago

in Virtual Server Sprawl on Mike D's Virtualization Blog
Another reason for apparent virtual sprawl:

When using physical servers, sometimes a small app will get installed on an existing server alongside another app, to avoid buying new hardware. When you virtualise such a landscape, those apps typically get split onto separate virtual machines. And in future they'll get their own VM from day one.

1 year ago

in Profile Mini-Feed Filtering Proves Misleading on AllFacebook
Yes, I was also under the impression that removing items from my mini-feed would stop them appearing in friends' news feeds. I'm now going to have to reconfigure most of my apps to not generate such items in the first place, if I can't delete them after the fact. If everybody did that, the mini-feed would become useless...
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