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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 from 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:: - jcunwired

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, Jamaican of FF

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, Jamaican of FF

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, Jamaican of FF

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

lol@Brad oh man - Shey, Jamaican of FF

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