This whole "boycott" thing is really getting annoying now. Did I miss where people were paying for the service? - Cyndy
I agree with Cyndy. Twitter is a free service without guarantees, what if it is 5 minutes or 5 hours offline, common you are not gonna die. - Arturo Servin via Alert Thingy
Oh, you might not post but you know you'll be reading them! - Sean Blake
gosh, we sure will miss webomatica and all those FB users! Please twitter, upgrade your infrastructure soon! ::sarcasm off:: - Jody C
Now, now, just because I bookmarked this doesn't mean I'm going to do it. - Louis Gray
The mere idea of it offends me, Louis. Today is supposed to be Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day and all people can think about is posting about their Twitter issues. It's one of those days that makes me want to quit writing about tech and move to an ashram. - Cyndy
The "I don't pay for it" argument doesn't really fly with me. I'll complain if the bus driver doesn't turn on the heat in the bus during winter. I'll complain about the only weather radio station or the only TV news station that goes offline too often. Just because I don't pay for it, doesn't mean I have to put up with crappy service. - Shey
To be honest Cyndy, I didn't even hear about it. Are you saying that we care more about Twitter outages than human rights? - Shey
We all pay for it with our time. Twitter uses its user base to increase its valuation when it gets funding, and for leverage in any possible acquisition talks. By using twitter, people make twitter more valuable. Thus we are, in fact, paying for it. People are frustrated, and this boycott talk is merely a way of telling Twitter, "you need your users to be you, and your users are restless. Are you going to listen?" - Mark Trapp
Shey, at the rate the day is going, yes, that's exactly what I'm starting to think. Not one headline all day on Techmeme about it today. Doesn't that seem a bit odd? And yet I hear all the whinging about Twitter outages and the fact that the Facebook vs. CollegeHumor beer pong contest is cancelled. 50,000 people dead in China. Thousands more in Myanmar. But yes, let's all whine about Twitter. - Cyndy
For what it's worth, me personally: human rights >>> twitter outages. Had I known, I would have definitely pitched in. I think the bigger problem is that word wasn't really spread about BUHRD - Shey
@Sean, certainly, but it will be through FriendFeed. - Jason Kaneshiro
Cyndy, the great thing about the internet is that discussions about the tragedies in Asia can occur simultaneously as discussions about web 2.0 drama, and countless other discussions. The internet is not serial, it's parallel. - Mark Trapp
Anybody wanna help me organize a boycott for the boycott? :P - Brad McCrorey
@Shey I disagree. It was on CNN today. I've been blogging about it for two weeks. Again... it's the patented tech navel-gaze. @Mark I disagree. If that were the case, why was there no mention of it on Techmeme today? It wasn't considered a big enough story to hit there, but beer pong was. Which is exactly the reason why there needed to be a day at all. - Cyndy
Cyndy, why wasn't there any mention of the earthquake on Techmeme? Probably because it isn't tech news. If you look at CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, ABC News, et al they are all discussing the quake extensively still. - Mark Trapp
Mark, the earthquake itself isn't tech. A day when BLOGGERS were supposed to be highlighting human rights issues IS tech. An aborted beer pong match is tech news? Never mind. You made my point for me. - Cyndy
Well, wasn't the earthquake on Techmeme as a result of it's connection to Twitter? - Jeff Brewster
Cyndy, when it involves the 800 lb gorilla of web 2.0 over "legal issues," it's a tech story about its change from a startup to faceless corporation. I'm not sure what you want people to do. Maybe the tech community isn't something you're into; there are countless other communities, more focused on issues you care about, that are out there. That's what makes the internet great. - Mark Trapp
Boycotting twitter seems redundant -- lately it seems to have been spending most of its time boycotting us. - Chuck Lawson
One thing to think about when considering why we're not discussing China or Myanmar or whatever. A few days ago John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama, which led to speculation that John Edwards could conceivably become the next Vice President of the United States. So, how did the Twitter users cover it? Answer - they didn't...because Twitter went down right about the time that Edwards endorsement was announced. But hey, Twitter's free, so it doesn't matter if the word doesn't get out. :) Not that I have any illusions that the Twit-Out will result in better service from Twitter, but it will give me an opportunity to put FriendFeed through its paces. - Ontario Emperor
