Tweet tweet, follow me! (Is this thing on?)

Published: July 13, 2008, 7:32 pm

Tags: social media, technology web, about this interwebs tubes thingie, twitter, twitter apps, web services

(About this interwebs tubes thingie: Part Two) Twitter has been having a lot of problems lately. In the past few weeks months, the Twitter servers have been buckling. The Fail Whale has become something of a pop icon. (Buy the t-shirt!) Ironically, Twitter's problems may have actually helped Twitter. After all, what have people been Twittering about? Twitter. Twitter's up. Twitter's down. Twitter was down but now it's up. Twitter is partly up but some features are down. Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter.... As Mary Hodder Tweeted this morning: i really wish one twitter client would get the whole thing right. then we could concentrate on making tweets. Screenshot: Scoble How may other web services could possibly seem to get more popular by having so may problems? Twitter stands out because there really is no other web service that has the service has the apps ecosphere, and has the community. That last one is a biggie. Plurk, FriendFeed, Pownce, Tumblr, and others have their

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