Thanks for Buying Us Lunch!
Wow, we had a surprise delivery of Extreme Pizza for everyone at Twitter HQ at lunchtime today thanks to a friendly group of Twitterers. Thanks for doing that, Shannon Whitley, Michael Doeff, MarhabaLife, LLC, Heike McDoniel, Michael Keliher, Ben Jackson, Micah Apparel, William Knoll, Jennifer Leggio, and Suzanne Ally. You guys are awesome!
18 Comments:
Are you done eating now? Perhaps someone could do something to keep Twitter online. Twitter is quite unreliable lately.
I never knock a service that's free. Despite it's outages, let's remember it's free.
Twitterlings, you deserved that pizza, and a whole lot more.
Yeah, while you guys were having pizza, the rest of the Twitter world was cursing the pathetic excuse for reliability.
You're "this" close to be rendered irrelevant.
Bloody hell people, why don't you people stop complaining and actually help them? Do they have a donate button? If they do, put your money where you mouths are and support them. This is free, remember?
Please, oh please, hire someone to act as a community liason. The tiniest amount of telling us what's going on would go a long way to reducing our angst.
Oh, for the love of...
Seriously, Bob, "rendered irrelevant" because people, who provide a free service, which purely because of its appeal, suffers from difficulties keeping up with demand, took time out of their day to eat?
I'm sorry, you're right, I won't be happy 'til I see Evan and the team chained to a desk, slaving away so that such life threateningly important updates as, "Just did a Quicken analysis of my YTD gasoline expenses '07 vs '08. Last year $363.61. This year $364.20. How did I do that? I slowed down." (your most recent Tweet) can be delivered promptly to the world.
Yes I don't like Twitter outages either, but get some perspective.
Me-ow! Put your claws back in boys.
Wow. 10 people buy you pizza. 1000's participate in a 'Twit-out' and you choose to blog about the pizza?
I agree with ggjeffy completely. Major outages every day this week and they choose to blog about free pizza. I'm grateful for a free service like Twitter, but whether it's free or not has no bearing on whether it's relevant or not. If Twitter doesn't fix the problems they're having on a daily basis, they will be out of business, free or not.
@ggiefy
Thousands participated in the Twit-Out? The poll said 20. FriendFeed was dead when Twitter wasn't down. Let's not sensationalize. ;-)
You're welcome, Twitter.
That's just awesome! Gotta keep those coders fed to fix the Twitter :D
Hope y'all figure it out.
Wow with some of the vile I see in the comments here I hope you had an intern handy to test for poison first ;)
I am so disgusted by the comments from Bob Collins. Unbelievable.
Free does not mean compromise with quality, else people will go for options which are not free or some other free service with good quality will take over.
Free word can not be excuse, because you decided it to be free, not the users.
I'm sorry folks are disgusted but an application is only good if it works. Twitter has a lot of possibilities for revolutionizing things. But only if it stays up.
Is this hard? I imagine it is. But Twitter invited me to try their service and if you didn't want to hear that it doesn't work, then you shouldn't have bothered trying to get me to use it.
The first site to get their service to work reliably and consistently is the one people will use. If that's Twitter, wonderful. If it's not, it won't be the first time someone's fabulous idea was left in the dust.
That's just the nature of the beast.
OMG...seriously, my ears are bleeding from listening to you people whine about a service that is not only free, but someone else put their hard time and energy into creating so you arses can tweet your boring, horrible nonsense. Are you losing money out of your pockets? Are you losing business? No. And if the answer to either of those things is yes, then you need a new business plan.
If you all can do it better or find a better twitter...go ahead. I'll be glad not to have to see your inane tweets in the public time line.
Rock on with yr pizza people.
Ill be happy to resume Twittering when you all are fed, happy and figure out the problem. Because twitter is my pastime NOT my life.
Bob, and others, I think the thing to remember is that the service works most of the time and when it doesn't it can be frustrating but not hugely detrimental to your livelihood of your interaction with the community.
For the general comments that just because its free doesn't mean you should accept a broken service, you're completely right. It does however mean that if Twitter went down tomorrow and never came back you have no right to complain other than to say you're disappointed. By signing up all you did was register interest in riding the wave and seeing where it goes, and all you're owed is the experience.
As for the claims of the 'Twit-out', I have only this to say:
1) Why get involved with a group of people who describe themselves as Twitter power users' in the first place, and
2) much more importantly, the twit-out, the righteous protest of indignation at Twitter says less about the service than the fact that all those people will be back tomorrow.
Twitter is growing, and yet, as the event I attended with over a hundred users in Sydney demonstrated yesterday, it's still fun, helpful and *shock* *horror* relevant.
So, to sum it all up. If you don't like it; if you can't handle the realities of the service at this stage; or if you just like to make yourself feel big by spouting crap on a blog, I have this to say:
Get out of the Twitter stream – you're blocking the tubes for the rest of us.
Everyone who is so quick to criticize Twitter employees, read about the challenges that Twitter faces in scaling with the increased demand.
Then, come back and throw your stones if you believe you can do a better job.
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