Surviving a Twitter Outage
June 5th, 2009
Twitter will be down for scheduled maintenance for a full hour tonight (Friday June 5 2009) at 8PM Now, I know what you’re thinking. “I can’t live without my Tweetz!”, “How will I survive?!?”, “What, for the love of God, will I *do* with all of my opinions if I can’t tweet them??!?”.
Settle down. You’ll be fine, as long as you don’t panic. Panic is the first refuge of the uncreative.
Below are a few suggestions for surviving tonight’s planned apocaly^H^H^H er… maintenance. I certainly hope this is helpful to the more addicted among us:
While you’re wishing you could tweet, you could:
- Go out to dinner: I mean really, the outage is planned for 8PM Friday — prime date-night dinner-out time. And it’s rude to tweet from the dinner table anyway. You knew that, right? Right?
- Go see a band play and save your review for after the show: Seriously. I hear you can still enjoy a concert even if you can’t tweet the setlist — and how cute the bass player looks — in real time. Try it.
- Turn your mobile device off and get in an hour of cardio : This one needs no explanation.
- Nap: I mean really — you don’t tweet your dreams in real time, do you? Do you!?
- Punt: If you get really desperate, type out or write down all of your tweets, and send them all out in a flurry at 9:01PM. Or, you know, you could just express your opinion to the person closest to you (physically, I mean).
Hope this helps at least a few of you avoid being curled up in a ball shaking and sweating between 8 and 9 tonight…
Got anymore suggestions? Share ‘em here…
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