Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 3/12/2009

New blog post: Why it's time to break out of Twitter. http://bit.ly/QpbQ3
@mortenaa -- Twitter is different things to different people. If you start a sentence with "Twitter is..." someone else is going to say no.
Insightful Chicago Tribune piece about celebrities and Twitter. http://bit.ly/CUGhu
Jason Calacanis offered Twitter $10K per month to be on the Suggested Users list. http://bit.ly/7ooCq
http://smallpicture.com/
New blog post: What I meant by 'breaking out.' http://bit.ly/13Y4vH
Twitterati post on the Suggested Users Page. http://bit.ly/L8Xjc
Mike Arrington provides TechCrunch's numbers before and after Twitter added them to the SUP page. http://bit.ly/tNXDW
Noted that Mike doesn't point to my piece. Sad. An Internet outage.
Someone posing at Mike implies that he paid me to point to TC in the early days. I only pointed at his stuff when it was good.
There has *never* been a paid link on Scripting News. I really hope that wasn't actually Mike who said that, cause that's ugly.
Re Adam Curry paying $10K to be in the initial subscriber list for Radio's aggregator in 2002, yes he did pay.
But get this: We would have included his feed even if he hadn't paid. He was a friend then, and he was helping us out and we needed the $.
Back in those days they didn't lavish startups with $50 million before they showed revenue. We had to make it go with sales. Weird times.
And as you know, Adam was pioneering a very interesting form of RSS that eventually became podcasting. He *deserved* a spot in our OPML file
No regrets, we did the right thing, both in including him and in accepting his gratuity.
I wish more people had been that generous with UserLand. We got a lot of grief and worked really hard, and our stuff made a difference.
And yet to this day people give that company shit. It was ridiculous the way people resented us.
Guy Kawasaki says what matters is how often you get retweeted. I don't see why, but okay. http://bit.ly/nPHAF