Twitter A MESS right now!

[johnrr6]

I'm getting so I hate Twitter....there---I said it-----now you can throw stones.....

You daily see the articles about Twitter being the fastest growing social networking company and how their company value has raised into the billions of dollars.....

OK---that may be so.....and the problems I am going to speak of are probably a direct result of their tremendous explosion in growth and demand. But be that as it may----the BOTTOM LINE is this: Twitter is a mess right now....

Many (far, FAR too many) accounts created since as late as mid September can't be searched for and "found" making it impossible to "follow" someone's tweets (Why have Twitter if you can't "follow" someone??)
Email notifications are spotty at best.
SMS text notifications problems continue to bedevil the site
Site speed has become unuseable far too often
Too many error messages
Things just get "lost" far to often.....

Twitter Support replies to posts detailing these problems with a lot of "we are devoting a lot of engineering time to fix this" responses---and also a bunch of other cutsie little sayings on error pages like "Whoa----something is wrong!"

Well DUH!

I have experienced all of these issues in trying to set up a Twitter site for a very progressive official in our public school system. Boards are rife with Twitter issues.

Problems stem from a new update, tremendous demand and also Twitter trying to shoe horn in, additional features.....

If you are trying to set up an official Twitter site for a person of stature, a school or a business----you may want to hold off until Twitter's technical abilities actually match what they promise. Heck----if you re just trying to set one up for yourself----I wouldn't bother right now......

Why is it when a company has just ONE THING----that it does REALLY WELL-----they AWAYS try to add a bunch of other things to the product which ultimately causes failure.....

Twitter----today's Billion dollar valued company.....tomorrow's Blockbuster Videos.....

Have you had bad experiences as well?----or quite the opposite?? I invite you to post your comments in this thread.

[bajo]

I simply do NOT use any "social network", ever.
I use a good ole email to communicate with my family & real friends.

[johnrr6]

When it actually works----it has a lot of actual application.....

Two quick examples:

Baseball coach has a Twitter account and can send tweets by his cell phone.... Team subscribes to follow those Tweets----and get's instant notification on the Cell phone via Text SMS:
Rainouts, practice schedule changes, bus changes, etc......

Shool Principal has a Twitter account where she can post quick changes to the school's routine----even changes to the children's bus pickup routine.....
Parents and teachers at that school subscribe to her Tweets and get instant Cell Phone SMS notification of changes----again----via SMS Text message.....

Actually pretty slick and it's FREE

WHEN IT WORKS!!