Twitter May Suck, But Pownce Sucks Just as Much
Saturday, June 7th, 2008;
-- Andy Beal |
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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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.
June 7th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
@mark - yeah, as I complained before, it takes about 20 seconds to add each friend.
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!
June 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Andy here is a little present for your Fail collection!
Twitter Whale Fail
http://tinyurl.com/6nwaq3
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?
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June 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
That’s a good looking error page. LOL. At least, they got that right.
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
June 8th, 2008 at 5:03 am
I am like you , still looking for a better of the two.
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.
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!
June 8th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
@Gregory - no idea where “FAIL” came from, but it can be satisfying to use it.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:49 am
LOL image. I think that’s the best way to talk users about some errors here
June 9th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Never heard about Plurk before.
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June 9th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I would try Plurk if I were you!
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.
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June 9th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Kind of scary picture!
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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?
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.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
At least in Twitter we won’t see that bad creature.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:06 am
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