Archive for July 21st, 2008
Why Twitter Will Never Happen
Twitter had a good run. But I think it will never be more than a novelty.
I signed up for it for the sole purpose of being able to use Sandy through an IM interface. But Twitter’s IM service went down on May 23 and hasn’t been back up since.
The folks who run Twitter just don’t seem to care. And it’s sad really. It looks like a lot of people want to give Twitter a chance to really catch on. It had the chance to be the next Facebook, something on the web that completely changes the way things work.
But really, how can you trust/rely on a company that seems to thumb their colletive noses at the users? It’s been almost 2 months since Twitter’s IM bot went offline. Two months of cery scattered “We’re working on it”s. 2 months of avoiding even talking about the issue.
Really, I’ve had it. I don’t care if this is a free thing. If WordPress was free and has this sort of service, nobody would use it. MySpace has this sort of service, and people are starting to leave in droves. This makes Wal-Mart’s tendancy to have roughly 2% of its registers open look really good.
I wanted Twitter to work. I really did. But if this is the sort of service that Twitter will provide, I can happily move onto something else.