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Twitabit: For Twitter Fanatics

June 23, 2008

Have you been bitten by the Twitter bug? If you still haven’t heard of Twitter, I’d have to wonder under which rock you have been hiding all this time. But never mind, just crawl out of the hole you’ve been hibernating under and join the rest of us Twitter addicts who have absolutely nothing better to do.

Twitter is a cool little thing that allows you to quickly send short messages to your Twitter friends/followers on the fly. You don’t have to be in front of the computer to send these messages– you can send them from your mobile phone as well. Pretty soon you’ll just have to think of a message and it’s already on Twitter. Never mind.

The not so good thing about Twitter though, is its tendency to be ‘down’ once in a while(that’s a euphemism right there). And when you’re in front of your computer with no lengthy post in mind, it can be a bit exasperating waiting for Twitter to be up and running. It’s not like Twitter will be calling you once they’re back online now, is it?

Enter Twitabit. I do think the guys behind this website are folks who dream about Twitter when they’re not Twittering away. Recognizing the err, tendency of Twitter to be down when you most need it to be up, they’ve come up with Twitabit. This website serves as your Twitter Outbox– a temporary holding facility that stores your Twitter messages while waiting for the Twitter site to resume operation and forwards these messages when Twitter is up. Its behaviour is very similar to the outbox of Microsoft Outlook. Messages that you sent while you’re offline that were stored in your Outlook outbox are automatically sent the moment you connect to your network.

So when you feel a very strong to urge to Twit but Twitter is down, have no fear; head on over to Twitabit’s website and Twit away! At least you’re assured that your message will reach the intended recipients once Twitter returns to normal. Your Twit’s delivery may be later than what you hoped for, but hey it’s not like you’re paying Twitter to be up all the time.

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Written by Javi Durado · Javi, a.k.a. the Third World Geek, is a bored corporate guy who considers his night job(no, he doesn't work in a call center) as a hobby. His real work happens during the day when he blogs like a guy whose fingers are about to be chopped off. He is the guy behind, you guessed right, thirdworldgeek.com

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8 Responses to “Twitabit: For Twitter Fanatics”

  1. AJ Batac on June 23rd, 2008 10:48 am

    Twitabit looks simple and cool. There’s also Twiddict. A “post on twitter when it’s down” tool just like Twitabit. http://twiddict.com

    Switch to Plurk? Anyone? :)

  2. dYu dYu on June 23rd, 2008 11:07 am

    Wow they’re making good business out of twitter’s problems huh :D Very innovative hehe. Is this the trend right now? *lol* I guess the big guys at twitabit and twiddict are always hoping that twitter should be down once in a while. hahaha. What would happen to them when twitter gets 99% uptime?

  3. little light on June 23rd, 2008 2:44 pm

    lol. this is nifty. i prefer twitter over plurk no matter how unstable it is, so i guess this would be helpful.

  4. mel on June 23rd, 2008 11:10 pm

    Nice twita bits…

  5. icy on June 23rd, 2008 11:53 pm

    Twitter is currently in the long process of re-writing the whole application. So it will stay the same for a quite a while I think.

    I remember I’ve read an article where they hired a software development company to rebuild Twitter for them instead of doing it themselves.

    Switching to plurk temporariy might be a good idea hehe…

  6. Third World Geek on June 24th, 2008 8:33 am

    I tried Plurk. Gave me a headache. lol.

  7. dYu on June 27th, 2008 6:20 am

    may widget na bang pwedeng mailagay sa mga blogs containing yung mga plurks ng mga fina-follow? nung last time na nag-check ako eh wala pa. sana magkaron tulad ng sa twitter :)

  8. Shaley on February 22nd, 2009 11:34 am

    I wanna moblog thru twitter using my Nokia N70 since I’m always on the road stuck in traffic. I am a little bit hesitant to use twitter service since it may cost a lot. I had been checking out blogs and no cost had been mentioned, just some complaints that it is expensive. So does anybody know who can give me a figure? How much does it really cost?

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