On the one hand, I admire your positive outlook on everything and, like Albert here says, “not a big deal.” Yes, absolutely, in the grand scheme of things nothing that goes on with Twitter is a *that* big of deal. I live a good part of my life outside the internet and in comparison, whatever happens here is only marginally important in the greater context of my life as a whole.

However, that being said, when analyzing what's occurring right now online as web services grow and change, Twitter is a shining example of what not to do. The main problem is that it was built incorrectly from day one. Other web apps should take note of this – you may think that you're just a fun little side project, but what's your plan B if you do become popular and need to scale up rapidly? Twitter's continuous issues are truly a worst-case scenario of what that looks like.

So, although I appreciate your take that we should just look on the bright side because “twitter is up and running”, I simply cannot concur. Twitter essentially took everyone's friend graphs and communities – things that people have taken time to build, nurture, and grow – and ripped them apart. For a service that mainly provides a tool for conversations, that is an incredibly large misstep on their part.

I believe you're fortunate to not be as affected by this as others because you're a much beloved Twitter maven (ahem, Twitter rockstar that is). Your friends will come find you again quickly….Not everyone is as lucky.

Perhaps I've now just thrown too much analysis on top of what was meant to be a light-hearted post, but I couldn't help myself. :)

/End Rant

What I'll take away from this is that even when times are tough, you can still find ways to have a positive outlook on things. That's a nice philosophy to have both online and off….However, it's not necessarily convincing me that Twitter doesn't need to be held accountable for their mistakes. :D