Making the Switch from Twitter to Jaiku

"I thought I saw a putty tat. I did, I did see a putty tat!"

These famous words were never the last from Tweety Bird, but for a growing number of Twitter users they will be. The last thing they will see before giving up on Twitter will be the Twitter server cat, the default screen when the service is completely down.

It’s not just downtime on Twitter lately that has made the service sit somewhere between frustrating and useless. Even when Twitter is up, updates/refreshes fail, pages don’t load, and third-party tools can’t connect. There has been a lot of downtime.