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Twitter Down Again — 10 Ways To Deal With Twitter’s 12-Hour Outage on Saturday
"Twitter Come Back!"
Update: December 28 2:40 Eastern - apparently Twitter is down now for several hours. Here are our suggestions from earlier this month and they apply now. If you know someone with Twitterdiction, you might want to check in on them to make sure they are making it through ok. The post below refers to the outage on Saturday December 15 but the ideas still apply to the current outage.
Apparently Twitter will have a major outage on Saturday during the light hours from 10am to 10pm. Apparently Twitter doesn’t want to stay up and do maintenance during the dark hours like most apps.
Since I know several people with Twitterdiction including one person who is on Twitter 25 hours a day (cough Jeremiah) and at least one person who uses it for ego-boostin’ (cough Jason) and for all of you who raised your hands on the Twitterdiction, here are 10 ideas for how to use the time effectively — add your own suggestions in the comments!:
- Consider completely unplugging from the ‘Net. If you can’t Twitter, why even be online?
- Go to the Spa for a hand treatment – this will allow you to come back refreshed and ready for more tweets!
- Consider washing the bathroom – probably about time to clean the bowl – you can time bathroom cleanings with Twitter maintenance windows
- Go for a walk without your mobile – since you won’t have Twitter on sms, why even bring the mobile? What else does it really do besides Twitter?
- Upgrade your computer – perfect time to stick in some additional ram or get a sweet 24" LCD to handle even more tweety-goodness!
- Check the batteries in your smoke detectors – again, perfect thing to do in sync with Twitter maintenance windows
- Catch up on geotagging your photos on Flickr
- Write your New Year’s resolutions early and start on them early as well
- Turn your mattress – once again, do it on Twitter maintenance windows – this way you sleep better which will allow for more effective Tweeterin’
- Keep hitting Refresh on Twitter.com and Pray it comes back early!
I have a way to deal with it – never turn it on again. I seriously don’t get why being more and more hyper connected is interesting. Twitter is going way too far for me. I can see why you, Alan, can need to be connected b/c after all it’s part of your job, but anyone would needing to know where I am or what I’m doing or thinking 24/7 is asinine. Turn. It. Off. Happy New Year! :)
there are people that need fans to survive… and for others it’s an addiction.
:( now im sad… :)
sorry, Allen, my bestest buddy in the whole wide world…. i misspelled your name (I get it all the time and i hate that, so my apologies)
There. Now there are three. Happy? I’m going to take your first and best piece of advice: a kind of e-sabbath. Don’t pretend like you’re not all going to miss me. Aw. Who am I kidding? You WON’T miss me, will you? I hate you, I hate you, I hate you! *stomp stomp stomp stomp SLAM*
Read, read, read! ;-)
Pownce looks cool, but is it open to the public yet? Hrm….
/Keith
There is always Pownce. http://www.pownce.com
Read, go to a movie, play with your kids, go on a photowalk, listen to music, catch up on RSS feeds.
Me, I’m going to be helping a friend set up a computer for her son, a computer of his own for Christmas.
I think I’ll just sleep all day – the wake up just in time to commence twittering.
Andrew