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By on June 7, 2008

Twitter May Suck, But Pownce Sucks Just as Much

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So, like all Twitter users, I’ve been somewhat frustrated with the amount of downtime. As a back-up plan, I decided to go back to my Pownce account.

Twitter has problems, but it’s not alone. Look what greeted me on my attempt to add new friends to Pownce…

FAIL!

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21 comments on “Twitter May Suck, But Pownce Sucks Just as Much”

  1. Mark Frost Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    I’ll take Twitter downtime over Pownce’s slow and laggy messaging interface anyday. While the service is great for media lovers, it takes too long to do any task and the site goes down just as randomly as Twitter, if not more.

  2. Andy Beal Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    @mark – yeah, as I complained before, it takes about 20 seconds to add each friend.

  3. Chris Bartow Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    Email us about it? They know enough to throw the error page, why can’t they just log it?

    Fail!

  4. Igor The Troll Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Andy here is a little present for your Fail collection!

    Twitter Whale Fail
    http://tinyurl.com/6nwaq3

  5. TonNet Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Is it Plurk the solution? Even though, this new Plurk is also reported many times down! How can they handle the situation when too many users come and go at any time?

    TonNet’s last blog post..Congrats Jenny D. She’s now a PhD!

  6. trexpenn Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    That’s a good looking error page. LOL. At least, they got that right.

  7. Samirb Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    I really like Plurk a lot better, It does go down but not for nearly as long as Twitter or Pownce, and they’ve already starting scaling up. They definitely are taking lessons learned from Twitter.

    Samirb’s last blog post..Plurk and Karma

  8. Henry Says:

    June 8th, 2008 at 5:03 am

    I am like you , still looking for a better of the two.

  9. UKSBD Says:

    June 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    I never really got in to twitter, but someone invited me to Plurk the other day and I must say it is great, no idea how reliable it is, but it hasn’t been down since I started using it.

  10. Gregory Brine Says:

    June 8th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    I’ve been trying twitter recently, but Plurk looks much better – and love the a-team reference. Just hope there’s a wordpress plugin.

    And anyone know the history of the ‘FAIL’ phenomenon? It’s come from nowhere and has been doing the rounds like crazy at work!

  11. Andy Beal Says:

    June 8th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    @Gregory – no idea where “FAIL” came from, but it can be satisfying to use it. :-)

  12. Keylogger Guy Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 3:49 am

    LOL image. I think that’s the best way to talk users about some errors here :)

  13. Symbian Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 5:31 am

    Never heard about Plurk before.

    Symbian’s last blog post..Nokia S60 Symbian Windows Live client available in Europe

  14. Nicole Price Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    I would try Plurk if I were you!

  15. Temi Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    In terms of simplicity, twitter is dead! it’s messy but pownce is a little more technical and damn beautiful.

    Temi’s last blog post..Webmaster Marketplace

  16. Mobile PC Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Kind of scary picture!

    Mobile PC’s last blog post..Nvidia has presented new Tegra platform

  17. Web Marketing Man Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Mxit is a South African messaging service that has spread from mobile (via GPRS to server)to web based too. They’ve been going far longer than any of these
    two, so go check them out, maybe they can add value somewhere?

  18. Goran Web Design Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    I like the way they use comedy to resolve a problem. Its clever thinking. I prefer this over other error pages. The lighter side of bugs.

  19. Tiffany Says:

    June 9th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

    At least in Twitter we won’t see that bad creature.

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  21. ablackanimal Says:

    May 29th, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    If you are tired of facebook or twitter but want a way to connect with artists and musicians then you should check out www.putiton.com

    If you are tired of facebook or twitter but still want to connect with your friends then pick up the phone…