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Twitter Status - Lost a database

Twitter Status - Something else is broken.

That is what the message should say. I am not a hater. I’m quite the Twitter fanboy actually. I’ve went so far as to call people who bitch about Twitter downtime a douche on public forums. Not something I’m proud of, I’m just saying, don’t think I’m a hater.

I’m not really sure this new transparency that Twitter is trying out is helping to strengthen their public image. From what I’ve seen it mainly gives the haters ammo. Before they would just whine about Twitter being down, now they can point to parts of the architecture and sound knowledgeable.

I would prefer to know what’s going on with my favorite web app and I’m glad they make us aware. However recently the “web2.0 community” has suffered from quite a few negative memes, i.e. the “FriendFeed is better than Twitter” garbage. So I’m not sure if Twitter is really doing what’s best for Twitter by trying to fill in the end user.

You may have noticed that I called Twitter my favorite web app in my previous paragraph. That was no slip on my part. Twitter is my favorite web app. That being said, I refuse to fall into any of these silly arguments. FriendFeed is a strong contender to replace Twitter as my favorite simply because memetracking is inherent in it’s design and that’s what I look for in most of my apps. That’s what I’m interested in. While others use Twitter as a communication device, I use it as a real time memetracker. All the Twitter tools out there help quite a bit though. FriendFeed won’t need those tools.It should be noted that even if Twitter is replaced on my favorites list, I will never abandon Twitter.

I think I’ve about said all I can say for now (and I don’t really think I’ve said anything at all) so…
Insert catchy “signing out” phrase here.

UPDATE: Friday morning DB problem meh.