People use Twitter in many different ways and there is no standard way to use it. There isn’t a rule book about how to use Twitter. Most of us even ignore the question Twitter asks us “What are you doing?” most of the time. Because it is an evolving community it can be complicated to determine whether a specific behavior is appropriate or not but you can find behavior and usage patterns emerging.
Earlier on the bloggersblog twitter (using PollDaddy’s nifty poll feature) I posted a poll asking “Is it okay to Tweet and Run? How long should someone remain on Twitter after posting a tweet?” The responses have varied but most people don’t have a problem with someone tweeting something and then disconnecting from Twitter. There are many people who connect to Twitter with mobile devices who post to Twitter in brief bursts. Some of these users are almost always tweeting and running. However, if you have posted a question or tweeted a message that invites responses it might be appropriate to linger for a few minutes to see if anyone sends you a response tweet. There are Twitter users who prefer people to linger a little while after they post a tweet.
You can see the poll and comment on it here.
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Jim Kukral is a awesome guy, and a enormous fan of the Flip video camera. Today, he uses the Flickr video service to inquire “what color is your Flip?”
If you want to participate in his experiment, add a video or photo to flickr and tag it “myflipcamera”.
I love it when bloggers attempt to interact with people on a different level. This is also a awesome time to blog about the camera and attach it to the event. I have yet to purchase a Flip video camera, but it is definitely getting more and more attention every day as the Flickr or WordPress of video recording devices.
Original post by David Peralty
So a very interesting article has popped up on Coding Horror that paints the WordPress software in a bad light. A friend of mine Mark from 45n5.com posted about it on Twitter, using it as another jab against all the WordPress “fanboys” in the world.
This is an incredibly scary result; blog.stackoverflow.com is getting, at best, a moderate trickle of incoming traffic. It’s barely linked anywhere! With that kind of CPU load level, this site would fall over instantaneously if it got remotely popular, or God forbid, anywhere near the front page of a social bookmarking website.
For a bare-bones blog which is doing approximately nothing, this is a completely unacceptable result. It’s appalling.
I looked over the article, and didn’t see anything wrong with it. I think it tells the truth and is just a fact when working with WordPress. I have heard from numerous people that WordPress doesn’t scale very well, but I would also like to add that Automattic and all of the WordPress developers are doing better and better with each release at addressing that issue.
I also want to say that I have never seen WordPress cause such high CPU usage in any of my dealings with the software.
Some people have made fun of the article, saying that WordPress is a PHP application and the Windows server that the author is using isn’t a good platform to run WordPress on, but I don’t know enough about the Windows Server environment to agree or disagree with them, though commenters have been rapid to point out that the operating system shouldn’t matter “that” much.
One thing I will point out is that WordPress does need some form of caching to work effectively at higher levels of traffic, and that many plugins are not optimized well, and can cause excess database calls and thus more load on the server.
People always inquire why certain advanced features are not part of WordPress’ core and why certain things are defaulted in what they consider “odd” ways, and I think the answer is fairly obvious: some WordPress users are unable to do simple computer/server related things.
Setting up caching and dealing with any errors that arise can sometimes be more difficult than just turning on one of the plugins that have been created for WordPress. I have heard of many people how they tried one caching plugin and it didn’t work correctly for them while another did. These features are not in the core as they would make WordPress too complex for the average user. WordPress is designed in such a way to work on as many different environments as possible, as quickly and easily as possible.
People are suggesting things like Drupal which is a pain to install and configure. It absolutely blows my mind. I think that the issue of CPU usage was blown out of proportion and that ninety percent of the people that blog would be better off on WordPress, Movable Type or something comparable rather than moving to a full blown, complex CMS.
Original post by David Peralty
Jeff of Jeffro2pt0, recently put up another episode of WordPress Weekly, the informal podcast he runs to talk about WordPress, and this week the show ran two hours thanks to the interview with Lorelle, a powerful presence to be sure.
From the show notes:
we coveruddy everything from WordCamp Dallas to tips on using WordPress and then dove into some of the concepts of using WordPress to make money as well as general blogging issues.
The interview was less like an interview and more of a discussion between like minded friends with questions bouncing back from interviewee to interviewer from time to time.
All in all, its a awesome listen, and I highly suggest you check it out.
Original post by David Peralty
