Is Qwitter Back?
Qwitter went dead over the holidays. I am wondering now if it has risen from the dead. Heh. Kind of like the social media zombies that Fanboy wrote about? :)
Here’s what spooks me. I just received four emails from Qwitter notifying me of folks who have decided not to follow me anymore. Actually, these are the first Qwitter messages I have ever received. I have a few theories here:
- Qwitter actually has risen from the dead and social media monsters are shunning me for my tweet that accused them of being thin skinned.
- This is a spam scam created by some evil soul who knows how insecure I am about people unfollowing me. :)
- Somehow, the new tweak to the Twitter API caused a jolt that gave life back to Qwitter. The Qwitter zombie lives!
How does Qwitter relate to the new Twitter API? Marshall Kirkpatrickwrote today about the latest tempest about the now famous Twitter API and how it may affect services like Qwitter.
Last night Twitter announced on its developer email list that API calls from a single IP will be limited to 20,000 per hour. Desktop clients and services seeking only status updates won’t be affected, only services pinging Twitter over and over again for information like users’ friends lists or other relatively unsupported data types will likely run up against the limit.
That Twitter tweak means that services like Qwitter are pretty much kaput. So, what explains these Qwitter messages? Contrastdeveloped Qwitter, though you would never know it. There is not even a mention of Qwitter on their site.
My gosh - what zombie is at work here?
Update: I just saw on Twitter search that users are also receiving email from Qwitter.
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