#FailWhale v2.0

#Fail Bot?
-- Someone's been watching too much made-for-tv sci-fi, I think

So long and thanks for all the faece

I'm done with Faecebook. Here's why. And here's how to quit. I encourage you to do the same.

Instead, find me on Twitter and LinkedIn.

RIP twitter@twitter.com

Last month I complained that Twitter's XMPP service for tweeting by IM has been down for a while.

Tonight, I noticed that the "we're working to restore service" blurb is gone from their site (but as Opal suggested, there's no mention of it ever having existed in their list of changes). Way to rewrite history!

I also noticed it's been a lot longer than I thought since the daemon was online:

RIP, twitter@twitter.com. You will be missed.

Twitter: who needs reliability? We have graphic designers.

Back from my Great Alaskan Wedding/Vacation, I decided to finally get on Facebook. Because I'm an IM junkie (actually, a Pidgin junkie) I immediately installed the Twitter application so that I can tweet my Facebook status updates.

That's when I noticed that Twitter's gtalk/jabber IM interface is broken... and has now been broken for at least a week, if not longer. Apparently it's being worked on and will be fixed Real Soon Now...

Today, I found this:

Twitter is over capacity.
Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.

Twitter: Proving that reliability isn't important if your error messages are cute enough.

Now we know!

Whoops! Something went wrong. Now we know about it!
-- 'Mmkay. And when will you fix it?