Eye on Winer

So I’ve gotten a few emails about Tweet Scan which is nifty for a few reasons. For our purposes here, it allows unmitigated access to things people are saying about Dave. So far the biggest problem I’ve found is that I can’t seem to find a way to put an “or” operator in the search… so while it would be ideal to have a joint listing of all twits that contained either “winer” or “davewiner”, it seems that you have to pick one or the other.

At any rate, I’ve added the Tweet Scan for “davewiner” to the sidebar. There’s a lot of interesting stuff on there.

Dave wants Twitter to brief him on their new hardware. Thinks it makes sense because the President sometimes briefs Congress.

huh?

I’d like to really understand what’s going on behind the scenes at Twitter, Inc. They say they’re confident the new infrastructure will hold up better, I’d like to understand why. Can we have a meeting, with a few people from the tech community who actively use Twitter and a few people from the company, to be briefed on what’s going on. The same way the President briefs Congress when there’s some kind of international crisis.

The answer to this is “no” for so many reasons. Further, even if it’s “yes”, the only reason Dave would be included in that group would be the “squeaky wheel” syndrome.

“Hello there, I see that your cleaning solution is being marketed as ‘new and improved’, I’d like to schedule a time that some other consumers and I can be breifed on the changes.”

“Your gym was recently remodeled, I’d like a briefing on why you believe this to be a more efficient setup. Me? Oh, I’m a member of the gym!”

NPD in full effect here. Twitter has thousands upon thousands of members… what is it, exactly, that makes Dave think he’s one of the handful that would actually be selected? The only thing he does better than the rest of the Twitter community is bitch and run smear campaigns.

…come to think of it, that might be enough.

Apparently EOW has joined Mahalo’s Top 7 for Dave Winer. Just in case Dave needed another reason to hate it.

An email from an observant reader discusses the ridiculous nature of RSS over XMPP…

Dave’s latest idea for a decentralized Twitter (which isn’t really an idea, blogging is already here as you mentioned…) is RSS over XMPP.

Think that over for a second and it even makes less sense. Sending an XML document (RSS) embedded into another XML document (XMPP). For a 140 character message. Overkill much? Well it gets worse since he’s trying to do this with UserTalk which is a scripting language environment run inside of his OPML editor which runs as a PPC app being interpreted on the fly by Rosetta. What a cluster fuck.

Speaking of Twitter, I snatched up twitter.com/eyeonwiner, mainly so that Dave can’t. If there are people that absolutely need to be followed, please let me know. If you have good ideas for what can be done with the Twitter presence, I’d like to hear those, too. (It took Dave roughly 30 seconds to block me when I followed him… hooray for echo chambers!)

Most people don’t bother to read the Terms of Service of sites they join. Dave obviously doesn’t.

From Twitter’s TOS:

4. You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users.

Twitter is Dave’s favorite place to abuse and harass people, though. So what are the consequences? (emphasis mine)

Violation of any of these agreements will result in the termination of your Twitter.com account.

So… when can we expect Dave’s account to be terminated?