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I was watching the local news the other night. There was a story about a woman that setup a Twitter account page for her dog. She apparently has nothing better to do or something. Who on earth has time to post things even if they are short and brief for their dog? Talk about not having a life or something.

It doesn't matter to me what anyone does with their spare and free time, but honestly I could think of a few other things.

The news story went on to say that this dog has something like 2,000 followers now. Can you believe that. Not only does this woman posting these tweets on behalf of her dog not have anything better to do. There is apparently 2,000 Twitter members that have nothing better to do than to read virtual mythical tweets about someone's dog.




I understand the internet can be education and even a good source of entertainment when there is nothing better to do, but come on reading tweets about someone's dog!

People never cease to amaze me when it comes to online and internet related things they do.

I seriously think people need to unplug from all this digital stuff once in a while, and come back to the real world. Maybe socialize with people face to face might be a good start rather than in internet land all the time.

The other night Twitter was down for scheduled maintenance according to the message I received when visiting the site. I don't know for sure how long it was down. I really don't mess with Twitter that much, but I'll attach a screen shot of the message I saw when I visited below.

I know there was talk from the folks over at Twitter that they are going to be moving, upgrading, or something to their own datacenter. Perhaps this outage had something to do with it. I don't follow them enough to know for certain.

They have had their share of outages and down time lately. From attacks to stolen information, you name it. People have complained about it being extremely slow at times recently too.




I can live with or without Twitter. In my opinion, it's really not that exciting. I really don't get how thrilling it is to read 140 character or less text messages from everyone in the world. Apparently a lot of people do though. Then again I don't understand how some people send a couple of hundred text messages every day from their cell phone either. Guess I am just old school or something.

I do kind of like the domain name Twitter.com though. It's kind of short and catchy. I really don't think of the bird they use for part of their logo thing.

Anyway the Twitter maintenance page I saw was kind of less than ordinary and not what I would have expected. Here it is:

So what is all this Twitter stuff about? How did it get so big? I honestly don't know but there isn't a single day that goes by that I don't here the word Twitter, Tweet, and follow me on Twitter.

I haven't been on Twitter until recently. I guess I was Twittered out maybe. So I decided to log back in tonight and play around with it. The more I mess with it the more I actually like it. It's a fairly simple site that I think just about anyone could navigate and find their way around unlike most others where you have to spend hours just trying to figure out how to update something.

Twitter can be a powerful traffic tool if used properly. I was doing some promoting with it a while back and I did get an unexpected flow of traffic. However, it didn't last for an extended amount of time. Like anything though, I would assume regular posting and updating would help.

So if you have never been to Twitter, you might check it out in your spare time. You would be surprised who is on there. You might just find someone you have been trying to find on Twitter too.

And Twitter is one of the few sites that the not so technical or Internet savvy folks can actually figure out.

They apparently even have their own little lingo and terms they use, twits, tweets, you name it. Go figure who would have thought something so simple would be so big?