20 May
2008
Everyone's favorite new mass communication service, Twitter, has been having some issues lately. Namely, two down times on consecutive days. This has cause some Twitter-ers to organize a "Twit-Out" to "
send a message to the powers that be".
Honestly people? Do you think twitter's "powers" start the day saying "how can we make our service fail today?" They are tackling an incredibly challenging problem that grows in difficulty as it scales (Check out Alex Iskold's
excellent post on the scaling issue). Your message will not motivate them to solve the problem anymore than they currently are. Go ahead, move to some other service, but once it scales to the same level it will likely have similar problems.
Bottom line is that we love Twitter. For those of us that have embraced it, it is hard to remember how we got on without it. That makes us act crazy when it lets us down. Lets just remember the Twitter team's good intentions, ask how we can help them, and enjoy the good times while the kinks of this service get ironed out.
