Twitter sucks, m'kay?

Well, yes I suck as a "blogger"... so for the 1 person that lands here, I'd like to point you to some reasons Twitter, as a company, sucks even more. I will do this very briefly, and not really through my own words, but via a couple links.

First, please read this.

...and this.

To sum things up: please consider moving to identi.ca or some other StatusNet open service. Especially do this if you happen to love developers. Also especially do this if you love things that are open.

My Twitter widget on this blog will be coming down shortly also. I plan to maintain Twitter integration on my identi.ca account for a while, mainly to not completely lose touch with the people on Twitter who are great people but have not yet chosen to display their love and affection for devs by migrating away. Some day I hope either Twitter changes their stance and embraces the community that got them where they are today, or everyone is on an open platform instead. That relies on educating the mainstream first, though, as to why they should care about such things as openness in platforms, and a "dev community".

UPDATE: Twitter widget is now gone. I'll eventually replace with a StatusNet/identi.ca widget if I ever get_to/decide_to spend more time on this blog thing.