Unimpressed with Twitter

Everyone is all a Twitter and I don’t see why. I just signed up for the service yesterday, pasted the embed code on one of my blogs, and watched it sit there and do nothing. It’s a beautiful shade of purple, though. I must admit the color is fetching. I liked the way I could make the color to my liking before posting it anywhere. I am going to post a blue one at the end of this so you can see what Twitter is.

The system updates every two minutes so you can see what your friends are up to. I fathom that the point is so everyone knows what you are doing at any given moment of the day. It was engineered with cell phones and instant messengers in mind, though.

My major problem is how long it takes for the website pages to load, then how long it takes for the status to recognize my newly typed in text. I am still waiting for it to say *hey your new status is now in your window* I have been writing this for about 2 minutes and I am still waiting. Then you have to wait for that information to be sent to wherever your little Twitter widgets are located.

I hope that they speed up their service. Three and a half minutes to figure out that I updated my status so they can update my widgets is beyond me. I also hope they get their IM back up and working. I just tried to set mine up and the service is down. I will be keeping an eye on them to see if they do improve.

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