Twitter is Not Only Unnecessary, But Also Unreliable
The Low-Tech Times previously asserted that Twitter, a service for for people to send frequent updates to each other about what they are doing, is totally unnecessary.
In addition to being an unnecessary, time-wasting service, Twitter is also somewhat unreliable. According to MG Siegler’s ParisLemon blog, Twitter service had three days of trouble and did not clearly communicate what was going on to its users:
It’s just not working correctly. You shouldn’t just leave a broken site up with no explanation that it’s broken.
Apparently, this most recent problem is not the first time Twitter sputtered or failed. Doug Caverly, of WebProNews, reports on Twitter problems from last year:
…the revelation that Twitter experienced about six days of downtime in 2007 has proven fairly embarrassing.