Just a reminder – if you want to keep current on news of JBoss releases, events, customers stories, etc. you can follow JBossNews on Twitter. We currently have almost 280 followers.

And if you have your own JBoss related news – then send JBossNews a direct message.

I’ve been using Twitter for about 8 months and I like it. I like the conversational nature and the low time investment and the brevity. I like the new and hopefuly permanent reliability. I like some of the Twitter clients – Tweetdeck, Twitterific, iTweet, Twhirl. I like the mind-numbing simplicity.I like my fellow Tweeters.

You can follow me @richsharples and I’ve recently created a work related handle at @JBossNews.

Note – you can change your Twitter handle at any time – I’ve just changed mine to something less anonymous. Here are some instructions on doing it right; and remember to update FriendFeed, Facebook, etc.

I’ve just started a new feed for JBoss related news using twitter. If you Tweet, you can follow JBoss News or just subscribe to the RSS feed if you don’t. If you have JBoss related news or articles you’d like to see included – send me a message (rich dot sharples at redhat dot com)

But Twitter is *really struggling* these days – it was never great (in terms of availability) but lately it’s become significantly worse. In a way it’s a good job that they haven’t switched from consumer ramp to revenue yet because angry paying customers are far worse than angry free loaders (like me).

Which is interesting in itself – maybe this downtime is all part of the monetization plan ? Maybe they’ll start offering a premium service for a superior QOS. I might be interested if it was very cheap (like SMS cheap) and Twitter can actually demonstrate some credibility.

Oh – and you can follow me on Twitter when it’s working – @pixelfodder.