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Most of the people I know that complain about Twitter when it is down are just frustrated.  Most of them are not even mad.  They just miss Twitter.

Like a High School friend that chooses a different college than you - when Twitter is gone you wish it wasn’t - but you forgive them.  Because they are, after all, friends. 

Twitter has done a great job building a sense of community.  Ev and Biz talk back to people.  When Twitter is up.  Not so much when it isn’t.  I can fix that!

Hell, I am a Twitterholic (12 step post to follow, I am sure!).

I even suggested yesterday that we send Twitter some Pizza. Shannon Whitley ran with it (and I donated) and he made it happen.

I Tweeted the first real-time blind date in Twitter. As far as I know.

I created the first Startup Company developed completely on Twitter.  Staffing, ideas, finances, etc.  As far as I know.

I started Tweeting about the need to relieve the Twitter servers of their workload before most people started Tweeting about a "distributed" Twitter.  I think we need smart clients that have an open source API they can all use to add features such as Peer To Peer, filtering, groups, etc.  But I think Twitter needs to be "the network".

I’ve blogged about all of these things over the last few months.  Right here, on this blog.

I deserve to be the Twitter Evangelist that they don’t know they need. Look at my Social Networking footprint (Google Search kr8tr - or just click it on the menu bar).

Oh - and I understand the API, and I have blogged a tutorial about using Track with GTalk.

So vote for me.  Tell @ev and @biz that I should carry the Twitter Torch!

written by rob tags: Community Leader, Evangelist, Twitter

This odd looking image is not an alternate universe with a sun and moon of the same size. This is actually a very odd artifact being displayed by my front yard camera. The two lights are on my neighbors house, about 200 feet away.  Normally they look like the tiny lights that they are. 

Tonight though we have an odd layer of fog that rolled in, and it is distorting the camera.

It’s actually pretty cool looking outside right now.  The fog goes from ground level to about 40 feet high - then it is clear again.  As it thins out in the breeze, the lights get very small again. And then they grow as the breeze subsides.

written by rob