Twitter downtime leaves millions wondering what to do
The rise in popular “social media” tools has lead to the imminent degradation in structured media into one that is limited to 140 characters. Andy Warhol is rolling in his grave as he learns nobody received their 15 minutes of fame - instead fame comes in the form of small chunks of text fodder that seem to never end.
One such tool, Twitter, has lead the charge in the creation of a Newsspeak reminiscent of a Brave New World. Words such as ‘tweet’, ‘twit’, ‘twitterverse’, and ‘twitterzone’ have crept into our language and rumor has it the OED editors have taken notice.
With such a craze upon us, the overload of interest caused Twitter to go down yesterday leaving thousands millions of Valley employees wondering, “f*uck, what do I do now?” Forgetting they even had a job, the inability for Twits to tell the world that, “I’m going to the bathroom, bbiab” has left them wondering about the meaning of life.
We called Jack Dorsey, cofounder and CEO of Twitter, to ask him when the site would be back up but his voice mail only said, “Check my Twitter stream you Twit!” In a cyclical, divide-by-zero moment we realized this would be a long week.