Apparently, someone thinks this blog is an authorative source for Twitter information.
While browsing through our referrers for the past month, I noticed the Wikipedia listed, which struck me as odd, to say the least.
At first I thought someone had created an entry for AppsLab, which weirded me out, but it turns out that a post I did on Twitter’s MacWorld failure episode back in January was cited in the Twitter Wikipedia entry.
. . . Twitter’s downtime was particularly noticeable during events popular with the technology industry, such as the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo keynote address.[29][30]
If you click citation 30, you’ll see my post listed as a reference. I derive a small measure of geeky pride from this, so if it was you (VoyagerFan5761?), thanks. Maybe someday, this blog and the ‘Lab will be cited in Wikipedia for more reasons germane to our mission.
But until then, you know where to find your updates on Twitter, and at least now, you’ll know this is an authoritative source.
Because Wikipedia said so.
On a related note, Twitter seems to have survived Apple WWDC for at least one day. I guess turning off certain features and lowering the API call limits were effective. Huzzah for learning from your mistakes.
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