If I were to draw a graph of my Twitter use over time, I think it would looks something like this:
This is because several weeks ago, probably around the time that Twitter decided to turn things off when their server loads were too high, everything I use stopped working.
I can’t use Hahlo on my iPhone. I can’t use PocketTweets. I no longer get text notifications from the people I am following. Whenever I look at Twitterific I see this:
(all I did was pull up twitterific, right now, and take a screenshot)
Stopping various services in order to keep the system up would be a great idea except that the value in twitter is inextricably tied to all the the ways in which you can interact with it. Following updates on my phone, tying new blogs posts in as tweets, getting updates on my desktop…Twitter itself has always been infrastructure.
If all you have is the web site, Twitter exists in a vacuum. And it’s pretty useless.
I know other people have already said it, but I think I’ll add my voice to the pile: Twitter had better get its servers in order, or their going to miss their shot.
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