We fought it. We resisted. But now we’ve capitulated to the twitter tsunami and have ‘twitterized’ digitalmissive. During the process, though, we’ve noticed something – twitter seems to ‘bounce’ a lot (network-speak for short sporadic outages).

Not surprising, given the numbers: Nielsen has February year-over-year twitter usage growth at 1,374%. That’s well over a factor of 10.

Amazing – and that’s not counting the countless tweets that will now be coming from the new and improved digitalmissive….

In the meantime, will short-term outages contribute to a backlash against the service?

And hey don’t forget to tweet this article – if the twitter’s up at the time.


You have the operating system.  You have your web browser – maybe it’s Firefox or some other extensible browser running half a dozen or more add-ons.  Maybe (like me) you have the Thunderbird email client, also with several add-ons installed.  Then there’s iTunes, Acrobat, Flash, Office – not to mention all the apps you’ve installed on your iPhone.  All in, you could easily have a dozen or more pieces of software, all regularly ‘phoning home’ for updates and alerting you to install them  – it all gets to be a little much at times, doesn’t it?
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