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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6-22-2008 @ 10:48AM
Pete said...
What a bad idea. Now the second twitter comes back online it will be bombarded and break again.
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6-22-2008 @ 11:46AM
Jay Ridgeway said...
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
6-22-2008 @ 3:05PM
Tom said...
It wasn't a bad idea when Twiddict did it first, either.
http://twiddict.com
7-03-2008 @ 6:04PM
thePuck said...
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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