“This is the most dysfunctional technology relationship I’ve ever had.”
… in response to Twitter’s on-again/off-again relationship to its features. I feel his pain, and I’ve only been using Twitter for a couple of months. I don’t remember being very demanding with earlier apps like AIM, but I also don’t feel like this is necessarily being demanding. Twitter says it’s going to do Thing A, gets a few million users that like the idea of doing Thing A, and then promptly drops functionality regarding Things A.1, A.2, A.3 … or, in some worst-case scenarios (read: every day or so), drops functionality for all of Thing A. That is, it drops off the face of the intarweb altogether.
Sometimes it doesn’t even bother to use the cute but trite image of the whale flying on a web held aloft by birds. It just goes down. All the way down.
And it’s the strangest thing, this feeling that Twitter owes me something. Because it most certainly doesn’t. None of these free Web services do. And yet … if it would just would run smoothly, I’d be wearing Twitter T-shirts and singing its praises. As it is, I’m just singing its praises (the kid can’t help it) and hoping for the best in the long run.
C’mon, Twitter. Fix thyself.
