Mar 24, 2009
There’s Something Very Amateur about Twitter
I’m new to Twitter. The majority of times i have visited i can’t help coming away with a growing impression of how amateur the whole thing is.
The other day i refreshed the homepage a few times checking for updates and found random CSS-styled boarders all over the place. Another time (actually this issue still exists [mar 24, '09]) Twitter would randomly loose my updates and all replies associated with them. Though i’d be able to find them via search, the frustrating thing was they would not show up in my timeline! This is frustrating if you’re like me and still trying to get to grips on how to constructively use the service i.e., possibly combining both personal and professional aspects of my life; i need to see these updates sequentially so i know what direction to lead off into next. Other times i’d run a search and get a blank screen with just Twitter’s default background and have to refresh the screen just to get the results.
Don’t get me wrong, i love the service and check it a million times a day; i’ve even installed TinyTwitter on my BlackBerry to keep up on-the-go. I just find it funny that a site with such broad reach seems to play it so lackadaisical when it comes to its operations.
“The world can be seen as only connections, nothing else…. A piece of information is really only defined by what it’s related to, and how it’s related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.”
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Hope it comes around soon.
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