29 Apr
Recently, TweetChat was hit hard by bots emanating from the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
On their heaviest day, they accounted for 15 GB of traffic. Yeah, that is no fun.
Geographically speaking, these bots were all hitting my service from IP blocks coming from their EU (Ireland) datacenter.
I used this handy chart available on Amazon’s forums to block all future traffic from Amazon’s EU EC2 service. Problem solved, for now…
19 Apr
I was recently looking at some of TweetChat‘s site traffic and saw a few interesting uses of my service from three high-profile sources.
CBS
CBS daytime talk show, The Talk is using TweetChat for a “Tweet Up Tuesday” where viewers discuss a question in real time as the show is live on the air.
New York Times
The New York Times held a #nytmuseums chat to discuss the use of social media in museums and promoted the chat in one of their articles.
Seventeen Magazine
Seventeen Magazine offers you the monthly opportunity to go on a Twitter Date with one of Seventeen’s Hot Guy Panelists using the #17HotGuys hashtag.
It is always cool to see something you created being used for reasons you never could have imagined. Now if I could just come up with a business model…
