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What to do when Twitter is down?
As any good Twitter user knows, the service is notoriously unreliable. Sure, they can have uptime of 99.9%, but that’s not really good enough for a microblogging service.
Ever since I started twitting1, I’ve been torn about whether something is more appropriate for a blog post or a twit. Some hold that it is possible—and perhaps even commonplace—to twit too often, and things too inane. I most certainly do not fall into that category, although I cannot substantiate that with examples of inane twits, because the damn service is down.
Trying to load the webpage, all I see is that damn whale graphic:
“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”
Kind of embarrassing that I had to Google for Moby Dick quotes, because I never read the book myself. I mean, had the folks at Twitter decided to use an albatross graphic or something, I’d be all over that. But so it goes.
I shall suffer through this madness by constantly refreshing When Twitter Is Down.
- I understand that most people use the verb “tweet” instead of “twit” when referring to using the service, but only the latter satisfies my penchant for abbreving words. ↩
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- Jun 27 2008 / 13:01
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- musings
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