Comments on: Does Twitter Work For The U.S. Government?

By: Ryan Jones

Ryan Jones — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:24:00 +0000

Everytime I run it the Market starts to load and then tell me I need to be logged on. I can do everything else (gmail, latitude, etc.), rolled back to former Market, works fine.

By: Sammyv

Sammyv — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:37:00 +0000

Because there are a bunch of sites that are hosting it and you can’t directly download from them. I’m not affiliated with this site, but I’m sure if you want to host the file they would gladly put the QR code up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:52:00 +0000

I think this is a slight example of how apple is begging to fall behind, but they do have the ability to improve on other people’s ideas. The notification centre looks like its from Android, and the split thumb keyboard seems to ring a bell from the video for win8 a week ago. The iCloud looks great though.

By: Gary Bing

Gary Bing — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:16:23 +0000

It is a known fact that some of our men in Iraq were saved by twitter before the majority of us even heard of it. So,yes this being a good thing after all. I don’t deal with the twitter twits out there as I have more important things to do than read about someones errant bowl movement and other such drivel and trivial matters.

By: Glenn Roberson

Glenn Roberson — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:50:24 +0000

I agree, CB. Exactly how is Twitter working for the Government? Are they “encouraging” the Iranian people to post comments that aren’t true? Are they encouraging the Iranian people to stage the photos that show violence in the streets?

If the State Department asked Twitter to delay their maintenance schedule (it was delayed a few hours so as to conform to Iran’s early morning hours) so that Iranians could express their views and relay information, so what? That’s a far cry from the insinuation that Twitter is a U.S. Government-controlled organization that is instigating violence and revolution.

I think it much more likely that, upon receiving the Government’s request, Twitter decided that it could delay it’s maintenance schedule to enable Iranians to express their views and relay information, especially to those concerned about the welfare of their friends and family still in Iran. Yes, and to let the rest of the world know what was going on in Iran.

By: Connor Bryant

Connor Bryant — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:59:28 +0000

twitter working for the gov’t sounds a bit extreme to me.

By: Ryan S

Ryan S — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:25:09 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly with OP. This is an internal affair and the US’s mixing in is only giving the current regime more reasons not to trust the US government, or at the very least, it’s giving them easy rhetoric to put off cooperation with the US government. How would we have felt, if say, violent protests in the streets had erupted against Bush when he was reelected, and the European governments encouraged it?

By: fjuf

fjuf — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:39:30 +0000

certainly we dont wanna refuse or deny them service thatd be cruel. america is not the only twitter user and twitter is a business not a government branch. the us needs to get their own shit together before trying to go out to save a country that has been sending out war ships as we speak. we dont want russia on our tail nor iran. someone else should maybe intervene this once…

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