A Tweetcar named desire

Some folks are just never satisfied. Maybe it’s because they’re professional critics who don’t do much else other than voice their opinion for a living, or maybe they’re just cranky people in general, but I’m just sick and tired of people bitching and writing useless articles about Twitter. All this bitching is just noise, data and information pollution, and most importantly… not productive.

I think people are putting a silly amount of weight on this company and it’s service. If anyone builds a component of their business that relies on ANY webservice they don’t control to the point that that service is mission-critical, then they’re optimistic (which is admirable) and an idiot (which is not admirable).

They’re having scaling issues, the end.

Almost every service that I’ve come across in 12 years that didn’t start with some supermegacorp style backing has had scaling issues. People used to just deal with it. Circa 96′-97′ (pre Microsoft) Hotmail used to be (and still is IMO) a super slow piece of garbage, yet people still use it.

If the folks that I see that claim to be so dependent on Twitter that they feel the need to fill Technorati with tons of useless complaint posts, they should either stop bitching and maybe invest in the company, donate money to them, send them pizza, go to work for them to fix things and make things how they want them to be, OR just build another service themselves. They even use someone else’s service for their status blog now themselves.

I’m sorry, but I’m really tired of all of the useless noise about this service being unavailable. If only people were this vocal about stuff that matters more to more people we’d be in a different world. Like a extremely large percentage of personal computers and laptops shipping with a broken & POS operating system. Or Hillary Clinton just generally being an idiot and getting in the way of a candidate who can kick McCain’s ass… anyway, you get the point.

The real point is this…

Twitter doesn’t have a revenue model that user have to “deal” with.
Twitter doesn’t have a sketchy policy regarding the content that is posted through it’s service
Twitter was initially engineered for SMS
Twitter has a decent API that many people have built neat tools and services with, some of which are even useful!
Twitter has changed the way many people communicate with one another… “@” now has two purposes on the web, cool.
Twitter doesn’t edit or censor content that passes through their system. (unless it’s actually damaging or abusive to a specific person… read here and here)
Twitter is I18n friendly.
Twitter is free.