I concur - Jason Lister from twhirl

Yes, this puzzled me as well - given the number of blog posts published on the topic it is rather strange. Maybe Gabe has removed Twitter from the list of preferred words to track? - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

GOOD POINT Thomas! where's the love for twitter now?! - Susan Beebe

I've just stopped blogging about it. There's way more interesting news out there than the constant fails of Twitter. - Cyndy

Or maybe Twitter mis-steps are just so frequent these days that it's stopped being news when something breaks. Still, I was surprised when I went to Techmeme this a.m. expecting a veritable Twitter bitch fest and found absolutely nothing on Twitter at all there. - Thomas Hawk

Cyndy is a prime example of loss of interest in a tired subject - twitter fail whale re-run episodes! - Susan Beebe

It hasn't been on TechCrunch yet.... hmmm - Bwana ☠

as you eluded to Thomas, i think that that is exactly what has happened. The constant negativity that is sparked from the manifestation of the failwhale does not make it newsworthy anymore. - Carlos Ayala

I think they are paying attention to other things. Abandoning Twitter because it is a pain in the ass is like abandoning your teenager because they are a pain in the ass. Stick with it people!! Users need a product they can rely on for a long time, not the newest, shiniest thingy. - Mary Anne Davis

I'm feeling a bit of malaise. When I wonder if I'll leave, I think about the network I have there, and ask myself whether it's worth it to do that again somewhere. That and the SMS short code made my barrier to leave a little higher than I could've predicted. I haven't blogged about it because it just feels too inside baseball to bother at this point. Besides, it looks like Louis Gray already did. : ) - Chris Brogan

Twitter was fun while it lasted, but the thought of doing it all over again somewhere else is just a non-starter. Interestingly, after using the Internet duct tape twitter -> friendfeed importer, and then having subscriptions grow organically over time from there, there's nearly as many people following me on friendfeed as there were on twitter, and I didn't have to work at it at all. - Jason Wehmhoener

Dean: Lots of folks are migrating to http://Identi.ca - Susan Beebe

The Twitter fail whale is cliched - TDavid

I dont think folks have moved on, what I think is that Twitter problems and outages have become so common that its not news any more. - Steve Mann from twhirl

Yes Louis has blogged on it. http://www.louisgray.com/live... and his blog post is the top story on FF for the past day. But it feels eerie at Techmeme. All the usual suspects are there. Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, but do a search for "Twitter" on the site and nada. Nothing. Fail Whale oversaturation I guess. - Thomas Hawk

I lost half of my followers! wtf? - orionstarr

Or it's not really a huge issue, since most everyone didn't actually lose followers. (According to Evan, at least): http://status.twitter.com/post... - Jordan Hofker

I saw a twitter message from ev very quickly after that happened saying that they new what the problem was and the fix was on the way. I think that despite its problems, twitter still provides a lot of value to its users and people have learned to leave through their growing pain (twitter is quickly growing to become mainstream and for more mainstream users I think that those lack of reliability issues are less painful) - Edwin Khodabakchian

Twitter still rocks compared to other services. - orionstarr

@Jordan Then Evan is full of s!@#. And that's not what annoys me. I want MY follows back. I don't particularly care who is following me. I care about who *I* am following. - Cyndy

Or maybe not knowing exactly how may people are following us isn't a real problem. - Jack Baty

now people are talking about it on ff... ;) - Dieter Schwarz from twhirl

I wonder what the noise level would have been if the counts went suddenly way up instead of down. I suspect many would have taken screenshots and casually mentioned the counts as if they were correct :) - Jack Baty

Maybe all the influencers in the world stopped caring about Twitter. That's what Gabe would probably say. - Robert Scoble

Uhm....WTF is Twitter? Is that like Identi.ca or something? - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Maybe its not that everyone is not caring anymore - maybe its simply that it has grown old talking about Twitter's issues. I mean when have they done a maintenance recently that hasn't had issues afterward? So what if following/follower counts were off at least the service was up. - Brandon LeBlanc from twhirl

Twitter is the worst web service I have seen in my life! It never does work when I need it. - Dimitar Vesselinov

at the same time we had 2 stories in the media (ABC news and USA today) about twitter this week. - Phillip Jeffrey

I think people would care more about this Twitter problem if Twitter hadn't prepared us by progressive FAILing in bigger & bigger ways. Way to ease out your customers Twitter! Give us the easy way out. Gradual progressive failure... - Mitchell Tsai

Funny! Twitter rewarded me for quitting Twitter early. Since I had just started using Twitter 3/28/08, just as I started enjoying Twitter, it started major flaking, and I stopped trying to follow people 5/30/08 (Coincidentally, about 5 days before the first missing people). Got lucky. Haven't lost a single person of the 140 that I'm following (just lost 74 of my recent 78 followers). - Mitchell Tsai

Strangely enough even though I am not using Twitter and my profile clearly states so I get many twitter friend requests (which I ignore). Spammers is all I can guess - Brian Sullivan

ya its kinda like :: shurg :: at this point - sean percival

Hm, well I'm one of the peeps that still cares immensely about Twitter. It's taken me a while to build up 2300 loyal followers, so it was v. scary to see 1700 drop off like a calving iceberg! It was quite a fiasco yesterday... the dust has settled now. I've yet to see a platform compare... Plurk, Identi.ca, FriendFeed all have their place. But Twitter rocks! - Mari Smith

Frankly, I don't think it helps giving them any more attention. I'm on hiatus from Twitter - blogging, Twittering, etc. unless they do something profound. I'm tired of this. - Jesse Stay

I don't know if people stopped caring. I think they just realized all the yelling and angst wasn't helping. Millions still depend on twitter... we're just patiently/anxiously awaiting that infrastructure overhaul. - Gregory Go