Good ideas are flying in for dealing with a Twitter that has been put on life support to try to keep a pulse going through the Apple WWDC keynote event later this morning. Watch the news on the Summize Apple search page, and if the service goes down, hop on over to Twiddict, which will post your messages to Twitter right away if the service is live, or will queue them up and hold them until the service is back online.
TwitterMail provides a similar feature via email, so choose your poison. But the good news is, you don’t have to stop Twittering just because Twitter’s stopped letting you.
A warning on both services - you have to enter your Twitter credentials to make it work. Don’t come complaining back to me if something ridiculously awful happens to you afterwards.
Why on earth do people HAVE to use twitter?! :s
Sure it’s not a life necessity!
We are still considering adding this feature to Twitter for iPhone but we think not only is this a very limited window before the downtime issue is solved but you could wind up with the same issue on your hands that Twitter has. Not to mention weird multi-post backlogs that make it look like you are spamming twitter. I commend them for doing and interested to see what happens.
That could be helpful, but not if twitter fails during the keynote
or some other big event at least if that is what you’re writing about.
They’d be much less interesting after the event is over. So hopefully, twitter will be able to handle the load.
how cool is this site allowing people to post their Twitter post if Twitter goes down
Thanks
Mr. Arrington
Oh my, Twiddict has been Techcrunch’d.
See the effect on the twitersphere: http://tinyurl.com/448ohb
Quite amazing…
Thanks for this great update. I recently jumped on Twittermail, and find this great…especially for the smartphone updates!
twitter is not life sustaining. but i think it has gain such a following. dare i say it ‘cult’ following that we have a collective of developers looking at other ways to post content when it down. this i find fascinating in that it has become more than just a messaging system. how many other services do you see that have this kind cirvumventing of the process in place.
this was the dailytwitter
nice Tijs! nice!!
Thanks for mentioning Twittermail. I has been offering this same feature for more than a year as just a feature. More choice is always good so welcome Twiddict!
tweetqueue.com does this too
http://twitturly.com does this too. And you can easily see the most talked about URLs on twitter in near real-time.
Sorry for the shameless plug Michael.
It’s sad when you have to have sites dedicated for not if, but when Twitter goes down.
MessageDance is been doing this for more than 6 months. Delivering your Tweets to twitter when it comes back up. You do not have to change your tweet pattern.
Let me guess, Arrington has some covert $ in this . . . .
I put together some design notes for a decentralized Twitter at the weekend. It’s actually pretty easy to do using existing standards, mostly Atom + AtomPub. I’m not sure I care enough to build an implementation though.
I don’t get Twitter nor do have the time to spend every 10 mins writing a post… that’s what RSS feed are for
But seriously we cannot ignore the incredible success of twitter. I guess that they should have thought of a queue service or improve their servers… either way its a nice cool and simple idea for a web service. Congrats and good luck