Saravanan Sahadevan

Im sure by now, you would have been fed up by all the rumblings against Twitter outages. To me, the rule goes by don’t bother. Cant we all leave without twitter for a day? I do actually hear “never” from all those rumblings. Its become so important, it has sort of monopolized the whole micro-blogging network. 

I don’t see how twitter’s outages do actually effect people. All I faced was that the twitter messages were delayed or maybe the service was shut for most a day. That’s all. Even machines do get sick right? So probably twitter is really weak. But then again I stress this, “I still do receive people’s messages right?”. Okay, we could argue about liveliness but come on, this stuff does not happen every single day. It works too most of the time. Okay, I know what you are trying to say. I totally agree with you. Hey, Im just being nice to twitter. 

And on the other hand, its just a social media application. Its weird to see how people react so emotionally. Too glued with the virtual world maybe. Twitter no matter what maintenance issues it faces, twitter will still play its role well. The concept of just 140 characters is the bomb. We do have other competitors but non is powerful compared to twitter’s simplicity sense. We don’t need all the extra stuff. We just want to convey text. And that’s why twitter does still rock on. 

In another view point, twitter is part of the social media world where communities are grown. Why not just stop grumbling and build your self on other micro-blogging services for now? We have got a good list go with below. 

• Pownce - The media type of twitter with extra functionalities such as sending files & music. 
• Jaiku - The twitter replica with exclusive RSS feed streams import enabled. But the problem is, you need to be invited to use this service. 
• Friendfeed - A life stream sort of aggregator which has slowly built it own community on it as well. 

As for me, all this listed services above including twitter are just a place to interact with communities. That’s the whole concept of social media. It’s de-centralized. That’s why it rocks ! I would always be with twitter and would also try to build my self on other platforms too. The only centralized thing in the social media world would be bringing back your community on your blog a.k.a Centralized Home on The Internet. 

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There are many people out there who are simply confused on which to use? Well i just felt like sharing this simple solution with you.

Twitter is unique on its own. Its basic concept is to keep your messages short & simple.It uses a maximum of 140 characters per message. Twitter is not for images to be shared or for videos to be embedded. Its simple as what can you send on a basic SMS is what twitter is. Besides that Twitter goes by just this saying , “What are you doing?” So having urls shorten or flickr images becoming links is not a lack of feature on Twitter because that is Twitter’s simplicity feature. This is what Twitter is all about.
I would recommend people to use twitter with your personal one’s, family and immediate friends to keep in touch with simplicity within 140 characters.

OR

Use Pownce to publish your media. Pownce was created to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. At the same time you could build a network of friends and chose who to publish your contents just like Twitter with all the privacy settings and so on.
It would be advisable to use Pownce as in to publish your media to your friends/fans.

There are more microblogging sites out there such as Jaiku & Tumblr. But each has their own identity if you could understand them. So choose your microblogging wisely and separate them to allow people to have an option to interact with you.

So Twitter from a mobile phone via SMS, or IM to get your messages out to your immediate family/friends.
Or use Pownce to publish your media.

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