I am getting increasing pressure to go on Twitter from multiple fronts but am resisting so far. I recently got this message from the Berkman Thursday Blog group I used to attend regularly.

“Tonight, let's talk about surviving Twitter outages - from competitors like Pownce or FriendFeed or Plurk to Summize, tweetscan, clients and any other tricks we've got up our collective sleeves. What do you do when a service you rely on isn't particularly reliable? Tonight, let's talk about surviving Twitter outages - from competitors like Pownce or FriendFeed or Plurk to Summize, tweetscan, clients and any other tricks we've got up our collective sleeves. What do you do when a service you rely on isn't particularly reliable?”

Now I have to admit I would feel lost without my blog and that was not a consideration when I first started going to the Berkman meetings in the Spring of 2004. I do manage to keep the blog going on vacations (when I do not remain online) with advance postings. I am actually in Quebec if you read this on the day it appears. Can Twitter people take a vacation? Can you survive without Twitter? Is it an addiction I should be concerned about?

Here is an old but classic post on The Asymptotic Twitter Curve. It speaks for itself with a great chart. Kathy Sierra writes, "email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about Twitter." and then goes on to say, "Twitter, it seems, is the solution to the one problem we all have: it's just too damn hard to keep updating our blog every few minutes to tell the world what we're doing at that very moment." BTW - Today I am preparing to climb some mountains in New Hampshire where I will be completely disconnected.


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