Looks like Twitter is down again for database maintenance.  They have come up with this humdinger of a “be right back” image.  I have yet to scope the “failwhale” recently.

If spammers can spam it, they are going to spam it.  So it goes with Twitter.  I’m sure many already deal with this, but today is the first I’ve seen of it as three or four nonsensical Twitter accounts have started to “follow” me, thus resulting in an email notification.  Death to all spammers.

12Seconds.tv launched in late July with a Twitter-like purpose.  Let others know where you are and what you’re doing, but 12Seconds does it with video — up to 12 seconds worth at a time.

Mowing on 12seconds.tv

Embedded above is 12Seconds user tw3nty3ight mowing grass.

One point ABC News makes in its write up about 12Seconds: the ability to scan large amounts of information fairly rapidly is an obvious drawback of 12seconds compaired to Twitter.

12Seconds is currently in private alpha.