I’m sure you heard the news! Twitter was DOWN!? Denial of Service attack which crippled Twitter, LJ, Facebook and more!

re: Serious Twitter Outage Ongoing, Denial Of Service Attack (Updated)

What really affected me in this outrage are all the poor countless souls who lost their lives as a result of this dramatic service outage.

Yes, you know what I’m talking about.  

All the poor helpless plants which expect their owners to water them when they tweet.   What if you were on life support and the only means of informing a nurse you needed food, antibiotics or pain reducers was twitter? YOU’D BE DEAD TOO!

Next time you think about Twitter, it’s more than just a communication medium.  It is a lifeline for the very beings who provide us clean oxygen in this world! My Oak Tree out front twitters me regularly, though he keeps retweeting Guy Kawasaki so I’m not sure what’s up with that!

So, you’ve been using twitter for awhile, infact you may have even used How to mass unfollow or follow people on Twitter .. and more! and found the tools to be just absolutely amazing! until.. your cumulative follower/following exceeded 10k, and found the tools to break, oh my!

Well, once you’ve exceeded 10k and want to keep growing (Yea I know who you are!) welcome a new tool! Yes, while Huitter and others give you a nice ‘whackamole’ mentality to unfollow everyone, let’s take it up a notch with.. Tweepular!

It’s broken down into a few key areas most of which have features like Bulk Follow or unfollow!

It’s all driven by checkboxes… so you can bulk-checkbox them all and unselect the ones you want, then hit Go!  It’s rightly proper and amazing and very colorful, oh my!

I suggest you give it a try today! “Srsly Guiz” said the lolcat, so it’s lolcat approved! Tweepular!

Hey, I use Twitter, you use Twitter right? Want to follow us on the Career Express and beyond on Twitter? me thinks you’ve come to the right place! Stay tuned for impromptu tweetups!

You ever wake up to look at your tweet and come across this type of completely insincere DM?

This would be great if my name were infact John, but it isn’t.  And this is sheer spam!

Well, @jesse has taken SocialToo to a new level by taking responsibility to not promote the sending of DM Spam.  As Twitter grows at the exponential rates it is, vehicles to manage this relationship between real sincere users and fake autobots had to be taken somewhere.   I’m glad to see Jesse step up on this issue.   @louisgray has great coverage of this as well, as an advisor to the Socialtoo team and other boards, his knowledge and skill really provides context for these type of situations.

One of the greatest pieces of this, is as Jesse puts it:

In addition, starting today, while you will no longer have need for blocking SocialToo users’ automated DMs, we encourage you to invite all your friends to come check the same option you were using to block SocialToo DMs, and we’ll block other sites that do automated-dms. If you provide your Twitter username and password (this is required because other services require it – it will be via OAuth in the near future) and check the box, “Turn off automatic Direct Messages from other services?“, we’ll set you up to block DMs from as many services that do this as we can, automatically.

So, if you don’t like to get Auto-DM Spam, whether it WAS from Socialtoo, or from other third party services – subscribing to SocialToo, a responsible social service is the way to go.

I wish you all the best on this, and John you can remove your own Bubble of Spam like this ;)

So, here is a breakdown of the NetApp folks on Twitter!

	Name + Blog	Twitter ID!
	Christopher Kusek	@cxi
	Michael Moeschler	@moesch
	Eric Pederson	@onStorage
	Kostadis Roussos	@kostadis_netapp
	Jeff Bearer	@jeffbearer
	Val Bercovici	@valb00
	NetApp	@NetApp
	NetAppUK	@NetAppUK
	Jeremy Merrill	@JeremyMerrill
	David A. Chapa	@davidchapa
	Samantha Moulton	@SamMoulton
	Mike Riley	@MSR11
	Kaitlyn Dierkes	@kdierkes

And a specific mention for the NetApp+Virtualization folks! ;)

	Name + Blog	Twitter ID!
	Chris Gebhardt	@chrisgeb
	Abhinav Joshi	@Abhinav_Joshi
	Brian Gracely	@bgracely
	Jack Mcleod	@VirtuallyNetApp
	Keith Aasen	@keith_aasen
	Vaughn Stewart	@Vaughn_Stewart

If you feel you should be added to this list, let me know and I’ll be sure to add you accordingly!