Twitter just got sh**tier: Natter emitter hit by code critter, fritters web glitter

Oxymoron?

Twitter and "useful functions"

The folly of continually fiddling.

This fiddling with features and UIs etc. is getting out of hand. If it's not Microsoft with abominations such as the Ribbon and Windows 8 then it's Twitter et al.

Earlier today I used Flickr for the first time in ages and found it too had fucked up the slide show feature, it's now a real pain to use. Frankly, I'm getting pretty pissed of with it nonsense. What makes it worse is the little authoritarian and faceless bureaucrats behind the show who insist on forcing a single UI or set of features onto ALL users. If they have to change things then why not an easy choice?

Seemingly, these monopolies have an overabundance of programmers who'd be out of work if they had nothing to do, thus it's change just for the sake of it. Of course, they're aided and abetted by useless marketing types who can come up with nothing more original than the notion of a single corporate look and feel--the 'image' thingy that marketing types are obsessed with.

Well, it's time they were told that not all consumers are the same.

Before these large internet monopolies took hold, we used to have a notion which we called 'choice'.

Up .... down ... up ... down ...

As of 2210, the whole of twitter.com appears down: just getting a blue banner page with "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing - we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

"Technically wrong" my hairy arse - something's literally wrong! And, I LOVE the chutzpah they show, thanking the user for "noticing" their error screen. Do Twitter employ Mel Brooks to write their error pages?

Oh, and while I was writing this, it appears to have come back on line again - I expect it was due to Nargles.