Well, not really all of Twitter. Actually, I didn’t break Twitter at all, but you would’ve thought I did.
First off, let me apologize again to those of you that follow me on Twitter, or should I say, those who are still following me after this morning. I really am sorry! It’s not like I sat there slamming down the Tweets to blow up your streams. In fact, to be honest I was trying desperately to recover The Garage this morning after a core upgrade started throwing 500′s.
It wasn’t until I started hearing from those who still give a damn, that I realized the same thing happened again that happened when I migrated my site to my own hosting solution. I immediately tried to apologize to my followers, but due to the slam, I was over my limit for the time being and had to wait. In the meantime I deleted every one of those Tweets. And there were indeed several.
If you are a true follower and have come to know me by now you can skip all this if you want. You know by now that I like to tinker.
Yea - I'm sorry too, see ya!
The Garage has always been a playground for me, and to an extent, at your expense. Everything I know is self-taught for starters, and as I learn more things, and play with different code, I tend to blow things up. I’ve only had the site since 1998 so cut me a little slack 
Yea, I know. A development environment might be a better place to play with my toys in case they explode, but I guess I just prefer a LIVE environment. More often than not, I can back things out quickly before you even notice and go back to the drawing board.
With regards to what happened today, I think I have identified the plugin that was the cause of all of this. It essentially bridges my posts to Twitter seamlessly as I post them. The trouble is, when I was coming back from my 500′s, it reposted I can’t tell you how many of my posts back to twitter and filling your streams. That being said, I am pretty sure I have identified the culprit and will keep it off in future updates. I can’t say for sure so please don’t hang me out to dry when accidents happen. That may not be it at all. I have never claimed to be a pro at all of this.
Apparently those who don’t know me seem to think every now and then, it’s my intent to flood our Twitter streams with redundant garbage. Why in the world would I want to look like a complete ASS and flood your stream intentionally, let alone my own? If I didn’t do anything to try to clean it up, or didn’t try to aplogoize, then fine, unfollow me or whatever you need to do. But an honest mistake which I really had no knowledge of? @Stang5_0 is my personal account folks. I’ve taken pride in the building of my follower base as well as the friendships I’ve developed.
Again, I am very sorry for flooding your streams. If you feel I am not a big enough boy to handle a Twitter account and need to unfollow me, so be it! Shit happens, and what happened today was an accident that I didn’t even know was happening.
Those of you still reading this and still following me, Thank You for your support! Thank you for understanding it was an accident. Yes, it was not the first one of this kind, but I play with code. It’s what I enjoy. When possible, I try to learn from my mistakes as well. Just because I play with it, doesn’t mean I know it. I don’t always know what causes my site and things to blow up, so I don’t always have an answer. And sometimes, it goes BOOM again. But I usually try to figure it out.
That is all. Thank you.
Stang
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