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At least 15 rolls of thermal paper. Who knows how many tweets. One sad, broken, thermal printer.

Earlier today the Thermal Tweeter printer stopped working. Probably due to rough continuous abuse. A few replacements are on the way. We dressed it up for a proper send off. There’s an eerie still in the lab now that it’s gone. According to USTREAM there were 26,037 total views and 3,694 viewer hours. The statistics […]

It looks like Thermal Tweeter has come to an end. After 15 rolls of paper the printing is light and the paper isn’t feeding properly. We tried adding some extra delays in the software, but even at 4 seconds delay per line the problems still happen. It’s supposed to have a life of 30 miles […]

The Thermal Tweeter started its 10th 11th roll of paper.  It’s averaging a roll a day. The Czechs took over this morning though, and we’ll probably use 3 or more rolls today.  Keep it coming. For more Thermal Tweeter facts see the this post.