Comments on: I’m Boycotting Twitter Until They Get Their Act Together

By: Netflix Back, Sorta: How Much Slack Do You Give Companies? » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:55:39 +0000

[...] on my past behavior – I tend to not give much slack to companies. This is likely evident from my Twitter boycott when I got pissed off enough at the downtime that I’d refrain from using a fre…. But this comes about in other ways in the real [...]

By: I’m Back on Twitter: Blame The iPhone » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:55:06 +0000

[...] A few months ago I “quit twitter” or, more specifically, did a personal boycott because their downtimes were making the service unusable. [...]

By: Twitter: The Too-Popular-For-Its-Own-Good Restaurant » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:06:15 +0000

[...] back to Twitter: I personally haven’t been affected by the downtime because I quit Twitter about two weeks ago. Life has moved on, and I’m looking for a new joint with better [...]

By: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Sat, 24 May 2008 03:47:34 +0000

[...] the past week, I have been ignoring Twitter, and noticed several [...]

By: Rumor Of More Funding For Twitter, While They Admit Cluelessness » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:11:39 +0000

[...] Despite my frustrations with Twitter, I still think the last situation a fairly safe bet, especially with the recent wave of acquisitions (CBS + CNet, Conde Nast (Wired) + Ars Technica, AOL + Bebo, Sugar + Coutorture and Shopstyle) [...]

By: jna

jna — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:53:58 +0000

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!

By: Twitter Is Down Again: Quit Twitter For The Twit-Out » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Tue, 20 May 2008 23:55:39 +0000

[...] I’ve had my own personal boycott going on since last week and the world hasn’t ended. Since then, Twitter has gone down twice, once today. The outages occur so often that even Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has taken notice. Jeremiah Owyang suggests FriendFeed as an alternative (so do I). [...]

By: Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook: It’s A Great Time To Be A Mac User » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:06:06 +0000

[...] I have been on a tear lately, quitting many services and boycotting others. But there is a reason for this madness. I’m determined to support businesses I believe in. [...]

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:37:53 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:15:24 +0000

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).

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:18:48 +0000

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

By: Clint Ecker

Clint Ecker — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:43:04 +0000

Perhaps I have a hidden motive

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:24:03 +0000

Heh. And your earth shatterinly wonderful tweets aren't a big draw for me to
stay

By: Clint Ecker

Clint Ecker — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:22:58 +0000

Have fun! Twitter will probably be a better place without you

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:24:01 +0000

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).

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:24:01 +0000

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:23:50 +0000

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.

By: Twit-Out: 24-Hour Twitter Boycott | introspective snapshots

Twit-Out: 24-Hour Twitter Boycott | introspective snapshots — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:24:24 +0000

[...] about it. Believe it or not, some feel a little more passionate than me and threaten to leave Twitter for good until their issues are fixed. Jason’s reasoning: does it make sense to rely on an [...]

By: Shey

Shey — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:41:40 +0000

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

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:25:03 +0000

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

By: n8k99

n8k99 — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:11:26 +0000

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.

By: smbeebe

smbeebe — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:24:14 +0000

Friendfeed FTW! w00t!

By: webomatica

webomatica — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:14:09 +0000

Nice to see you smbeebe. FriendFeed o rama!

By: smbeebe

smbeebe — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:09:54 +0000

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