[sevenlake]

"We _thought_ that this would be a quiet, stealthy beta for us while we finished the technology and the client"

Then maybe don't invite journalists onto your Quiet Stealthy Beta!!!

I hope you get rest, work is not that important

[ciroduran]

The issue there is that journalists is a good reason why Twitter became mainstream, it makes sense to invite them to your Twitter clone

[drakonka]

Sure, but that's not really compatible with the "quiet, stealthy beta" thing OP claims they were aiming for. If it was meant to be a quiet beta journalists should probably have been invited at a later point.

[pfraze]

It’s a waitlist plus invite codes given to users. We have had only a vague influence over who joined.

[mrguyorama]

Isn't this just way more evidence you don't even know your users?

[steveklabnik]

Can anyone know 65,000 people?