By Jim McCarthy Oct 8, 2009 4 comments

Twitter: The Most Successful Website Ever that Only Kinda Works

If you use Twitter today, you know what I mean.

It goes down frequently, often in the middle of a session for just a few seconds.

Today, it’s up, but tweets are in a time warp, stuck 3 or 4 hours ago and not updating properly.

Often, you click on a button and the progress wheel turns and turns, finally stopping, but nothing happens.

If Amazon were like this, they would have gone out of business a long time ago.

If Facebook were like this, MySpace would still rule.

If email were like this, well, I’m not sure where the Internet would be at all.  Possibly still in the basement of your college’s Comp Sci department.

To me, this means two things:  People really like what Twitter provides and that’s they put up with it.  That’s the good news.

But now the bad news: it means Twitter should be a protocol, a way of communicating that doesn’t run through a single company.  It’s not an entirely original thought, but imagine if Email were a single company.

Not a pleasant thought.

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