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Twitter down? Twitabit to the rescue!
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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Subscribe to commentsPeteJun 22nd 2008 10:48AM
What a bad idea. Now the second twitter comes back online it will be bombarded and break again.
Jay RidgewayJun 22nd 2008 11:46AM
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
TomJun 22nd 2008 3:05PM
It wasn't a bad idea when Twiddict did it first, either.
http://twiddict.com
thePuckJul 3rd 2008 6:04PM
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.