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I’m on Twitter
Ok, so I’m slightly late to the party on this one, but I finally signed up for a twitter account the other day, to see what all the fuss is about.
I’ve read a number of articles and blog posts (many of which I’m afraid I can’t for the life of me find) about the scalability and load issues faced by the chirpy social site and my initial (and subsequent) experiences using the site have confirmed each and every one of them. Page load times are slow, often with CSS failing to load at all. It took me a number of attempts to even register to use the service!
I also question the how on a service called ‘twitter’, the individual updates are ‘tweets’. Surely they’re ‘twits’, or is that the name to a user? Not very good for marketing, granted, but perhaps more gramatically correct?
Not put off, although confused as to how anyone ever manages to post anything given my registration experience, I’m gonna give it a go and have found me some people to follow! How exciting!
I’ve also got the twitterific app for my iPhone, which seems nicely polished.
All I’ve got to do now is use it a bit, I suppose… see you on Twitter @rtoldham!
