“…over the last few weeks, the micro-blogging site’s outages have become more rare and the headlines have started to turn positive.”

A cool visualization of your Twitter Follower count

Remember Flooz?

As of July 23, 2008, this index is down 16.77% for the year

“I’m all for Twitter taking action against spammers before they become a problem, but the target should be the obvious spammers, not the respected power users.”

Install a Stream-pad powered mp3 player on your Tumblr blog

“It may seem counterintuitive given Twitter’s expressive constraints, but stating a thought in a 140 characters or less can be a rich, illuminating experience. Is it blogging? Who cares.”

Twitter gets some coverage from the mainstream press

“Today sees the launch of Favtape, a new mashup that mixes Pandora, Last.fm, Seeqpod, and Slinkset to offer full playback of your favorite songs on demand, without any limitations.”

Interesting concept – charge third parties a premium for real-time data