Today, apart from being Independence Day, is the day that Twittercott is set to make Twitter founders Biz and Evan sit up and listen to the 1,700,000 or so community members who are disgruntled about the frequent Twitter outages.
However this is not the first time that Twitter has been ‘boycotted’.
Keen bloggers Andrew Dobrow and Bwana McCall promoted Twit-Out after reading the following post on FriendFeed [click to enlarge]:
As I begin to write this the Fail Whale is indicating Twitter’s ongoing problem — ‘Twitter is over capacity’. It is the frequent outages that Twitter suffers that has prompted Paul Chaney, Internet Marketing Director at Bizzuka, to arrange a 24 hour boycott of Twitter on July 4th.
Paul Chaney explains his idea:
It’s time fans of Twitter express some tough love by joining in a 24-hour boycott - a “twittercott” - starting at 12:00 a.m., July 4th. Let’s declare our independence from Twitter by not using it the entire day. We send a message by NOT sending messages. Get it? If enough of us were to participate it would be a shot heard round the world wide web!
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