Is Twitter's Breakneck Growth Causing A Backlash?
Basically it talks about how much Twitter has grown recently, and how the original crowd of users are "annoyed" by the new users who take the "what are you doing?" question too literally. One user even blames Shaq.
I think if you're getting your panties in a bunch because too many people use Twitter and are causing too many "fail whale" sightings, then you're using Twitter too much and need to get a real life. I love Twitter and post on it an average of four or five times a day, and check it even more frequently, but let's get real. It's a social networking site. The crowds of people using it are kind of, uh, integral to the process.
Then again, there are some freaks out there who do things like this:
A Fail Whale tattoo? Really? Check out this gem (on how some users aren't bothered by the increase in the frequency of site overloads):
Bill and other fail-whale followers aren't bothered, though.
The 36-year-old San Franciscan has organized parties in honor of the whale. The most recent, held in California in February, was attended by more than 300 people, including Yiying Lu, the artist in Australia who created the image.
Bill says the whale represents a contrarian philosophy.
"It's sort of an adorable whale but also this thing that represents the Herculean tasks that we sometimes go about from day to day," he said.
"We're all trying to do a lot of things that seem pretty impossible," Bill said. "It's nice to identify something positive with those failures."
Yikes.
Then again, I'm most likely going to add him to my follow list. Shit.
More soon.
JS
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