I've been working on an application for an upcoming project that uses Twitter.  I've never seen something that everyone loves fail so regularly.  I'm smashing my head since I can't do proper debugging while people are like "Oh twitter, you're down again." and they slap their knee.

I like twitter, the idea is decent despite what some people may say.  It gives me a place to rant that isn't my blog which has a very targeted outline.  I get to make statements like "Why do people think it is OK for google to have applications for 4+ yrs in beta?"

Now if twitter was produced by any other company, we'd all freak out.  When Friendster was having these issues of uptime, people moved to MySpace.  When MySpace was running into the same issue, people moved to Facebook.  I know most will say MySpace's rise and fall was due to the ability to customize it, but I think it was hugely due to their social site being down. 

Flickr would have lost the war I believe if it acted like Twitter.

Twitter needs to be fixed.  Wether that means it gets neutered and people move on to a different micro-blog site OR they fix their issues.

Maybe people view the Twitter service as pointless amusement and doesn't matter if they have like a 50% uptime rating with developers that constantly produce broken builds on what appears to be a SUPER simple application.

I also do love that their error pages have formatting errors.  They make me think everything is alright and twitter has robots fixing everything.