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Twitter Keeps Breaking. Will Twits Be Patient?

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Twitter has had a rough week. What has been one of the quirks of a budding new communication medium (new to most people but not to those who have been paying attention for the last year and half), downtime is beginning to be a more frequent pain for Twitter and Twit alike. The micro-blogging service has admitted that there is a lot of work to do to make the system stable. But here’s the deal. Most people who use Twitter just roll with it. Though I’ve observed more comments about Twitter’s instability in the last few weeks, the overall tone isn’t that they’re going to abandon Twitter, rather they just want Twitter to fix what’s broken and move on.

Twitter’s growth is both helping it and hurting it right now. It hurts because so many more people are using it and the system keeps crashing. It helps, because more people are using it, connecting with their friends, and realizing it’s where everyone is…rather than leaving to find people on a Twitter-like service such as Pownce (where everyone isn’t.)

So…to all the fellow Twits (I’m not sure if that’s what we’re calling Twitter users but it works for this post) in waiting, here’s a little something for your desktop I made using the Parody Motivator Generator.

Twitter Downtime