Re:Did you lose your tweets recently?
by dryicerx on Friday April 10, 2009 @06:14PM
(#556894)
I lost a few a couple of days ago, a minor annoyance but nothing more.
This is the problem with twitter (and those who use it religiously or base their entire business/startup around). Some people seem to think that Twitter is a service that they are entitled to use, or have a right to use, like the internet.
Instead it's a single privately owned company providing a single service freely to a lot of people without any obligation what so ever towards it's users or dependants.
Yes it's totally radical, yes it's a new platform, yes it's useful, yes it's function, yes it's awesome, but at the end, it's just another volatile platform that has a single point of failure, and if it were to fail, it will do so with a horrendously nasty bang...
This is the problem with twitter (and those who use it religiously or base their entire business/startup around). Some people seem to think that Twitter is a service that they are entitled to use, or have a right to use, like the internet.
Instead it's a single privately owned company providing a single service freely to a lot of people without any obligation what so ever towards it's users or dependants.
Yes it's totally radical, yes it's a new platform, yes it's useful, yes it's function, yes it's awesome, but at the end, it's just another volatile platform that has a single point of failure, and if it were to fail, it will do so with a horrendously nasty bang...
(and no, nothing is ever too big to fail either)
/rant