Twitter is down. It’s down a whole bunch. I am admitedly not a software developer so I’m sure there’s some level of nightmarish logistics behind Twitter that I can’t understand but it’s seriously nuts how much it’s down. It makes me want to punch something.
On the other hand, I really shouldn’t complain. Twitter is effectively free. they charge no fees nor do they run advertising. How the heck are they making money? Outgoing links? Do companies like Amazon and CNN “donate” money for alowing them to create accounts to keep viewers informed? Actually, that last idea may not be too off. It would be a decent sort of model, push a bit of revenue towards a simple, popular web service and in rturn you get some traffic. Sure, it would be free anyway but why not keep the cash goign to keep the service up anyway?
Except it’s not up 70% of th time. There’s this huge joke about the “Fail Whale” image.
Anyway, I’m addicted here now and I NEED MY FIX. I could shift away but I just havn’t found the same appeal in Pownce or FriendFeed or Plurk.
July 15, 2008 at 1:01 am |
I suggest you to use Plurk !
July 15, 2008 at 5:51 am |
I’ve been toying with Plurk a bit lately. I can’t really get into the interface for some reason. Why is it these sorts of things always seem to want to read backwards. Reading Twitter “up” has always irritated me.