Friday, March 02, 2007

Twitterphobia

twit·ter·pho·bi·a

–noun

an abnormal fear of being disconnected, or unable to send, receive, view or otherwise interact via IM, Mobile or Web interfaces to Twitter, sometimes accompanied by anxiety attacks, uncontrolled fits of rebooting, clearing cache and consist complaining.

Common signs,

was Twitter offline there for a while?

seems to have lost several updates as well

twitter doesn't advance pages :-(

Can't submit messages via Gtalk to Twitter. Switching back to web client.

twitter seems to be swallowing updates

Usually followed by feelings of elation and peace once the problem as subsided,

Twitter in Gmail works again. Yeah...

 

 

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3 comments:

Craig said...

Currently zero results in Google for "Twitterphobia" so here's seeing how good Google is.

Nigel James said...

This morning a search for "Twitterphobia" comes up with 3 hits that all point back to this post!

Not bad Google!

MCP said...

a year later there are 112 hits, and twitterphobia.com is still open! =)