My morning routine was interrupted today in a big way – because Twitter was down. I hadn’t realized how much I depend on the service for any number of things, from tossing out the headline or two that I find interesting as I read my feeds, to checking the status of the conversation around stuff I’ve written the day before, to logging into other services I use through my Twitter account. In short, this morning when Twitter went down, much of my Internet experience did as well.
Huh. Anyway, I wanted to see if this was a local thing, or if a lot of folks were experiencing it, so I went to Google+ and asked. Within a minute, I had ten responses, nine people said Twitter was down for them as well. In five minutes, it was 21 of 22. That’s a lot of engagement.
So I got to thinking….if Google was really evil, it’d do something like this when Twitter goes down:
I’m kidding, of course, but there are a heckuva lot of Chrome users who are getting this message from Chrome right now….and do every so often. If Google really wanted to make a stir….
Haha! That’s funny. Sadly, I still don’t think many people would care about G+.
Just poking fun. Knowing Google, if they ever were to do this, they’d test the crap out of it, and it actually converted, well, the numbers are the numbers.
I don’t know how well that would work considering Google Talk was also having issues this morning…
It’s back up. Wonder what happened at Twitter. I can only imagine it was a total meltdown, because they are usually not down for this long.
Also the kind of think that antirust suits are made of.
I don’t know if that’s true. There’s nothing wrong with identifying a signal, and leveraging it. It’s what everyone does.
We don’t value a good coffee until we have a real bad one. 30 mins without twitter, and it seemed like i got handicapped. I just cudn’t do any browsing even outside twitter. Twitter is just 10x more awesome then i ever thought.
Well said.
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I am silly easy to mail
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Thanks John. i will follow up shortly.
John, i just emailed you.
Never heard that before