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What To Do When Twitter is Down

As huge as Twitter has become, it does go down time to time for scheduled maintenance. I found this topic covered at TechCrunch and thought I would re-post here for convenience. I know some of you that follow this blog are dedicated Twitter users, so here you go…

Twitter just went down. Don’t worry, it was plannedt What To Do When Twitter is Down twitter down time twitter alternatives twitter . It should only be offline for about an hour today but there’s another downtime planned for Monday as well. I’m sitting here not quite sure what do with myself, as I’m sure many of you are. So I’ll go ahead a prepare a list of alternative activities for today and Monday, in order of importance/likelihood:

  1. Talk about Twitter being down on FriendFeedt What To Do When Twitter is Down twitter down time twitter alternatives twitter
  2. Talk about Twitter being down on Facebookt What To Do When Twitter is Down twitter down time twitter alternatives twitter
  3. Talk about Twitter being down over IM
  4. Leave a comment on a blog post about Twitter being down (preferably this one)
  5. Talk about Twitter being down via text message
  6. Talk about Twitter being down over email
  7. Tip TechCrunch that Twitter is down
  8. Write your own blog post about Twitter being down (for an example, see this blog post)
  9. Talk about Twitter being down on Pownce Plurkt What To Do When Twitter is Down twitter down time twitter alternatives twitter
  10. Talk about Twitter being down on Identi.cat What To Do When Twitter is Down twitter down time twitter alternatives twitter
  11. Talk about Twitter being down internally on Yammert What To Do When Twitter is Down twitter down time twitter alternatives twitter
  12. Think about Twitter being down
  13. Call an actual friend to talk about Twitter being down
  14. Invite an actual friend over to talk about Twitter being down
  15. Go outside

And here are some other alternatives inspired by commenters:

  1. Compose a tweet using Birdhouse to send out when Twitter comes back [thanks Josiah]
  2. Bitch about the Twitter coverage on TechCrunch [thanks Austinite]
  3. Question the timing of the planned maintenance [thanks Carl]
  4. Accuse TechCrunch of being paid to promote Twitter [thanks what? (and Scoble and Winer)]
  5. Find a homeing pigeon [thanks courtney benson]
  6. Talk at a conference about Twitter being down [thanks Scoble]
  7. Talk to Walt Mossberg and Jimmy Wales about Twitter being down [again, Scoble, who loses a point on the leaderboard for name-dropping]
  8. Resort to hyperbole [thanks Shanky Baba]
  9. Compare TC to a pubescent boy and Twitter to Scarlett Johanson [thanks Beer Universe]
  10. “losers” [thanks Max]
  11. Fix typos [thanks Erick]
  12. Update IM status [thanks Drew]
  13. Visit this sitet What To Do When Twitter is Down twitter down time twitter alternatives twitter [thanks Orli]

Source: TechCrunch

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  1. May 12th, 2009 | KikolaniNo Gravatar (4 comments) says:

    I’d say, in general, get away from the Twitter withdrawal madness that is further instigated by watching more people fuss about it on other networks. :)

    ~ Kristi

    Kikolani’s last blog post..SPNbabble for Web Professionals – No Twitter, All Babble

  2. May 18th, 2009 | clickktdotcomNo Gravatar (8 comments) says:

    I think Twitter will become the king of social networks ^_^

    clickktdotcom’s last blog post..Oprah Reaches 1 Million Followers On Twitter In Less Than 1 Month

  3. May 31st, 2009 | StancjeNo Gravatar (3 comments) says:

    When twitter is down I can finaly get some free time. Because once it’s up again I know I’ll start wasting time twittering again.

    Stancje’s last blog post..Wrocław 31.05.2009: Mam do wynajęcia

  4. June 24th, 2009 | affiliate ebookNo Gravatar (2 comments) says:

    It is currently shut down for about an hour. Just wondering how often it goes down. How often? Once a week? Thanks.
    .-= affiliate ebook´s last blog ..Hello world! =-.

  5. August 1st, 2009 | Attorney OptimizationNo Gravatar (8 comments) says:

    I keep getting notifications to my email that random people are following me, and I don’t care. I signed up, but I never use my Twitter. I want to no longer receive the emails.

  6. November 4th, 2010 | seo softwareNo Gravatar (6 comments) says:

    when twitter is down il do facebook or checking digg…that is no big deal for me :)

  7. March 8th, 2011 | IT support LondonNo Gravatar (1 comments) says:

    I’m not a user of Twitter at all but I know that people seem to panic whenever the site is down! I guess it’s because most people keep up with their favourite celebs for news of gossip or sports news so when it’s down people feel as though they’re cut off. This is what we’ve come down to now…

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