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I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

Started by webomatica · 1 year ago

So Twitter continues to go down, again today. It’s getting to the point where you can count on it happening at least once a week.
Some folks over on FriendFeed are talking about a “Twit-Out” boycott of the Twitter service next week Wednesday. Feel free to participate if these outages annoy you. ... Continue reading »

15 comments

  • smbeebe

    1 year ago

    Wow, you're very serious about Twit-Out boycott! Well, I am very glad to see you over on Friendfeed! http://friendfeed.com/susanbeebe
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Nice to see you smbeebe. FriendFeed o rama!
    reply
  • smbeebe

    1 year ago

    Friendfeed FTW! w00t!
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  • n8k99

    1 year ago

    i don't think i'll be following this action, as there are numerous services which i have tied together via the whole twitter exchange, but i would like to see serious action on anyone's part to distribute the twitter service so that it is not contingent upon official Twitter servers to operate.
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Totally agree. And if that distributed solution comes from Twitter
    themselves, more power to 'em.
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  • Shey

    1 year ago

    Good luck to you man, I hope they fix the issues soon. I don't have the balls to leave Twitter for good.
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Thanks - i'll mention the one day twitter boycott too. But a big reason why I'm okay with leaving Twitter temporarily is because I have FriendFeed - my cojones are not that big.
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  • Voyagerfan5761

    1 year ago

    I probably won't follow your all-out boycott either. I am planning to blog about next week's Twit-Out thing by Sunday, depending on when I get a chance to blog. Since I use twhirl at home and HelloTxt when I'm away, Twitter outages just mean a few updates get lost on Twitter but show up on Pownce and Jaiku. Since FriendFeed pulls all three services into my feed, nothing is lost unless all three of them are down (which has never happened yet).
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  • Clint Ecker

    1 year ago

    Have fun! Twitter will probably be a better place without you :)
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Heh. And your earth shatterinly wonderful tweets aren't a big draw for me to
    stay :)
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  • Clint Ecker

    1 year ago

    Perhaps I have a hidden motive ;)
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  • Eric Berlin

    1 year ago

    I'm getting pretty frustrated with the outages too -- hope they get their scaling issues under control one of these days
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    I also hope they can figure it out. It would really be sad if they "snatched victory from the jaws of defeat" in that their service can't technically support the increasing number of folks that want to use it.
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    Build it yourself:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/asideshop

    I'm still working out a way to update via SMS, but it looks like it'll be a WP plugin that grabs items from RSS and inserts them into WP. Then, I'll just use a Twitter account for the SMS updates (which are infrequent, luckily). :)
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  • jna

    1 year ago

    You leaving twitter and getting others to leave twitter will make twitter look better and appear to function faster.

    It'll be less load on the servers and less for everyone else to deal with. Nice going!
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