Twitter Fail and the WWDC Nerds

There are tons of articles and posts about how Twitter has lots and lots of problems. KC sums it up well here (and also here in a more serious way).

They’ve been down *a lot* recently. I don’t care that much, but I do think it’s interesting to follow as I’m a casual user of their service.

This week is Apple’s WWDC and Twitter has a blog post up about how they’re anticipating the load and are making some changes to handle it. Because lord knows, all the geeks are out in force . . .

And something interesting happened this morning.

I have twitter set up to ‘post’ anything I share in my google reader feed as a link. Basically, when I’m reading various blogs, if I find something interesting, I mark it as shared and people who follow me on twitter see the link (or they can look at the shared links I have on various pages on my site in those sidebar widgets).

So this morning, I’m cruising through my feeds and I read a snarky post on a financial blog I read called Infectious Greed. Here’s the post. Anyway, I thought it was witty and I clicked share, which 20 mins later sent it through the tubes™ and it went out as a ‘tweet’.

So just a few moments later, some goober called eggmanjohn posted a tweet basically telling me to stop harvesting traffic.

He’s obviously trying to follow WWDC and iPhone news and is tracking it on twitter. So he must think I’m a problematic user trying to get more eyeballs or worse, someone whose spam can either a) mess up those trying to follow iphone and wwdc or b) mess up twitter itself (zomg!)

Twitter needs some serious work, and people need to stop treating it so seriously. It’s just a fun site for now- nothing more (until they get their kinks worked out at least, then the power of it could shine through).