The Love/Hate Relationship with Twitter

Posted on July 2, 2008 by keith

I love Twitter. Some people don’t get it, but once you get hooked, you can’t live without it.

I hate Twitter. It’s down half the time. You get me hooked and then, just when I need a fix, you’re gone.

I just got onto the private beta of TweetDeck, installed it, gave it my username and password, and the Twitter failwhale makes an appearance:

fail whale

I’d boycott Twitter til they got more stable, but that kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?

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8 Responses to The Love/Hate Relationship with Twitter

  1. Phillip Kerman says:
    July 3, 2008 at 11:13 am

    I feel almost identically as you–except I really think if they ever come back it’ll be too late. It’s sad… but they obviously can’t solve their problems. Then again, maybe it really is an impossible programming task… see my vid:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93dGW_hDuQ0

  2. kp says:
    July 3, 2008 at 11:26 am

    i don’t think they’ve reached such a failure point where they need to “come back”. still plenty of people using it. it’s getting to a critical point though. lots of people getting pissed off at it. then this identi.ca thing comes out and everyone flocks to it. to the point where it almost instantly collapsed. i first heard about identi.ca yesterday and today their registration and login is busted. i can’t say for sure that’s due to the influx of traffic they had, but i bet it is.

  3. Phillip Kerman says:
    July 3, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    For me, twitter definitely needs to come back. It’s way less useful when I get up and can’t click the “older” button. Borderline useless. It is funny though because such statements prove I’ve got a dependency issues.

  4. Scott Janousek says:
    July 3, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Let’s all go back to hand paintings in caves. Works a lot better … and no downtime! 🙂

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixtura/138943872/

  5. James says:
    July 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Listen – you can live without Twitter, it’s the sugar-candy addiction of the ‘now’ Internet, it’s only marginally useful, and one of the most selfish personal propaganda elements of the YouTube generation. Start with this: NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW! … REALLY! Get a life – the beach is beautfiul, the sun is bright, free yourself from your neurotic addictions.

  6. kp says:
    July 16, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    James… um… might want to cut down on the coffee there dude. 🙂

  7. Kristin says:
    July 16, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    It’s not so much twitter that I’m addicted to, but the people I twitter with. Most of us only see each other at conferences, and twitter helps us in touch. Twitter is just the platform we’ve all stuck with. It’s like a bar we all hang out at. 🙂

  8. Niqui says:
    July 16, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    I care what you are doing @bit101. I listen. Don’t stop tweeting…

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