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Twitter down? Twitabit to the rescue!
It's no secret that Twitter goes down on occasion. But what are you gonna do if you just neeeeed to tweet?
The great minds at betaworks pondered that question as well and developed twitabit. A simple website that stores your messages and forwards them once Twitter is back up and running. Simply enter your username, password and message and you're off.
If you love Twitter so much that you haven't jumped ship, twitabit may be that life preserver you were waiting for.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pete said 10:48AM on 6-22-2008
What a bad idea. Now the second twitter comes back online it will be bombarded and break again.
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Jay Ridgeway said 11:46AM on 6-22-2008
Hi Pete. I'm one of the developers. Twitabit is built on the store and forward posting technology of switchAbit. This technology is designed to be tolerant of disruptive networks and also play nicely when availability returns. There is a configurable throttle per queue.
Btw, any developer can use the switchAbit post engine. Here's a link to the Twitter compatible api.
http://api.switchabit.com/twitter.updateStatus.html
Tom said 3:05PM on 6-22-2008
It wasn't a bad idea when Twiddict did it first, either.
http://twiddict.com
thePuck said 6:04PM on 7-03-2008
This is a great tool. You guys should try to get Twitter to implement a side server running it and then they can switch off when their main server goes down.
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