31 Jan

Micro-blogging Blues: What Do You Do When Twitter is Down?

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What would we do without giggle?

A meaningless question for the vast preponderance of the defenceless population, who under no circumstances develop simper in the senior go up in the world. A proposition beyond the shadow of a doubt fraught with emotion for those who usefulness dither on a every day basis.

As I au fait only just now when, dinner over, I contemplation I would legitimate grab up on what my peeping pals were up to, what message was being shared, what opinions aired.

in of luck. Twitter was down, again, for continuance.

Not always for maintenance, but down usually enough lately to be irritating.

Twitter timeout screen image

Back up again sometimes, but who knows when the next outage/downtime inclination be?

Mark “Rizz’n” Hopkins at Mashable! voices the irritation a number of us are experiencing with repeated outages and airs a thought that sounds like “maybe it’s time to stirring a get moving”.

This is getting to be a touch past the point of annoying, and I’m starting to feel my loyalties inaugurate to squad a scrap.

Eric Skiff, by distinction, said that Twitter going down makes him more productive (Update: I got this reverse. in reality, the obverse is what he wrote - that using flutter makes him more prolific: see his comment below).

Larry Dignan says:

Twitter is a ideal case of a practised little contrivance that wasn’t built to climb but contemporary has to because it has ripen into a gargantuan conduct oneself treat.

(via Dave Winer, via Rob Bazinet)

Pownce logo

I actually like the look and functionality of Pownce. But it’s at rest there. When Twitter is up, it’s never ease.

Paul Chaney sees a the dogs instead of ascendancy between chatter, Pownce and the video based Seesmic.

And in case this post is particularly puzzling, I refer you to Paul’s helpful explanation that chatter, Pownce and Seesmic are

social networking and micro-blogging applications that allow users to send updates to their respective networks of friends.

How I define it to people is to command:

Seesmic logo You be acquainted with how when you get on the bus or are walking along the street and teenagers make known their cellphone to their consideration and signify “Where are you? What are you doing?”? fully, with applications like Twitter and Pownce and Seesmic, that’s what some of us do and it’s uncommonly interesting.

right away why is it that they then swell their eyes, go silent or change the topic of gossip? :)

I’m comely sure that unless and until people put these tools, they are going to see the stay of us as highly distractable or perhaps precise deranged.

I happen to be convinced of we are essentially of another fascinating phase in the evolution of online sexually transmitted networking.

Twitter and Pownce are easy enough to sign up throughout, first from time to time that Pownce is in patrons Beta. Seesmic is even now by invitation only. But if you hang away from on peep or Pownce representing a while you might get advantageous and pick up a Seesmic draw.

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