Downtime
Jun 6th, 2008 by Jack Lhasa
In this recent war of microblogging sites, it seems that none of them can really get it together and provide what we really need: reliability.
Twitter is always down and some features don’t work, people moved to Friend Feed. People realized that Friend Feed’s user interface was complete crap and came back to Twitter. Twitter still having the same issues and not moving forward in any noticeable way, when Plurk lauched there was a mass exodus. Now Plurk is putting us through the same bullshit as Twitter. Down half the time, not all of the features work, etc, etc, etc.
I think Brightkite might be the only reliable microblogging site left. I’ve yet to see it go down.
So the question remains, can someone get a microblogging site together, fuck all the frills and special features, we just need something that is reliable, supports SMS(in the US, unlike Jaiku), and allows posting via IM.
Throw everything else out the window, it’s worthless and just causes more and more issues. I don’t care about my karma score. I don’t care about rooms or cliques. Just make it work. Can it be that hard?
But what do I know? I just listen.
-Jack.
I Also Travel.
There is no hope. Everyone wants to be fun and interesting, thinking to draw folks in. But Twitter is already bare bones and has problems. But if someone built twitter from the bottom up, that would work.
I’m not sure if a truer thing has ever been said, my friend. Twitter is the ideal. But it needs a total overhaul.
YES!!
I love that I met so many wonderful people on Twitter, but that just makes it all the more frustrating when Twitter is down! I also love that so many people flocked to Plurk, because that meant i could still talk to the same people … but now Plurk is having the same issues in reliability as Twitter.
Preferably, I’d like some database/coding genius to go to Twitter and say, “Let me help.” Twitter is *home* to me. I want to stay. But I need to be sociable. And if Twitter can’t minimize the downtime, I’ll go back to chat rooms and message boards.
~Devyl
Google to buy twitter? I wish
@Hunee hey sis. Google bought Jaiku and then it went to hell, so let’s hope they stay away from twitter.
@jacklhasa for twitter to do the overhaul….would you like twitter to do some ads?