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July 11, 2008


News I Can Use

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know Twitter is just a silly web app. And man, is it down an awful lot! But, I tell ya, it's going to have to try harder than that to drive me away. I just found out from my network that the line at the Apple store on 5th Ave is 200 people deep and the wait at the Soho store five hours long The first tweet was a result to a question I posed; the second was just the right bit of info bubbling up at the right time. Both are bits of news that potentially saves me hours of my life -- if I wasn't such a fool that I'm probably going to go try anyway.

Yeah, I'm going. I'll probably Twitter my progress, if it's not doing its Fail Whale thing... (Photo thx workinpana)

UPDATE: The second tweet concerned the wait at the Apple store in the meatpacking district, not Soho. My bad.


 


 
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Nancy Scola I'm a Brooklyn-based writer obsessed with technology, networks, social organizing, and the politics of food. This is my online home where I talk about those things and whatever else strikes my fancy. Learn More

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