Anyone else hate status announcements via twitter

[stevech]

...most people use Twitter is ....

Most? Wrong

[scott2020]

Most? Wrong

C'mon man. What he said was "The reason most people use Twitter is that it's easy to update..."

He's not saying most people use Twitter. He is saying out of the people who do use Twitter, most chose to use it because it is easy to update, etc.

Twitter is easy to use, fast, and has multiple ways to obtain information from it. It is off VOIPo's network infrastructure, so it can be updated in the event of a major failure. I can't count how many times VOIPo had datacenter issues back in the day, where the phone service was down, forums were down, main web site was down, etc. I haven't seen that happen in awhile thank goodness.

That being said, I can't get to Twitter and other social networking sites from my work computer. I would rather check here or at DSLR. The problem is 90% of VOIPo's subscribers don't know what DSLR is! But I would guess a majority know what Twitter is.

I would think a separate site with the status would help, with RSS feed, but there has to be an easy way the average Joe can use it.