A couple of days ago Amy asked if I was going to join Twitter. I responded

Convince me that I need Yet Another Login For A Service That I’ll Be Incredibly Unlikely To Use? :-)

This morning, I signed up. Honestly, it’s incredibly underwhelming. For one, they really need to speed things up. Before I started typing up this post I clicked Amy’s “request to follow me” link. It’s still loading. Adding an update or tweet or whatever the hell…

Break in the action. Amy’s “request to follow me” link finally did something. It loaded a blank page. Did it go through? Was there an error? It’s a mystery! I’m going to click it again and hopefully not spam her a second time.

…it’s called took a couple of minutes to go through. This is…

Great, now Amy’s twitter page isn’t even loading. This is a fantastic display of technology in action. I can’t even load their front page to see if there’s some sort of twitter blog or status report or anything that might give me some indication that this is either normal behaviour or some kind of freak occurrence. Oh wait, the front page loaded to a blank page.

So yeah, Twitter. Why should I sign up for a service that’s going to make me try to load a page, wait five minutes to see if it loaded, reload the page, get a blank screen, and generally waste my time?

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