Twitter went down yesterday morning.
While on FriendFeed, I saw reports that Facebook was also experiencing problems.
What would happen if all social networks went down at once? What would you do with yourself?
Would you start sharing things by rapid fire email? Would you launch Skype chat? And the most pressing question is:
What did you miss while Twitter was down?
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5. The incessant "click ... click ... click ..." of Robert Scoble trying to refollow the 100,000 people he unfollowed this week.
4. The short-lived #peterpanman meme. Nutella still rules.
3. As it turns out, you can have THOUSANDS of new Twitter followers overnight! If Twitter had just been up, you'd have gotten the DM telling you how.
2. Thursday's #kaizenblog chat renamed #kaizenbeer and adjourned to local brewpub.
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AND FINALLY
1. You missed the sight of people actually getting some work done while you constantly attempted to reload an empty Twitter screen.
SEE!! I asked last week what would you do if Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn disappeared over night... and Mike Billeter suggested it would be a "social mediapocalypse." Well, I wasn't far off, was I?! ;-)
I love #1 (and #5, heh). I have to say I got a bunch of work done and was happy Twitter was offline for a bit. That said, I was also suffering from a bit of withdrawal. ;-)
Now for that #Kaizenbeer...
Have a great weekend Valeria!
Beth Harte
Community Manager, MarketingProfs
@bethharte
Posted by: Beth Harte | August 07, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Classic. Reminds me of the Jimmy Fallon bit
Too Many Social Networks:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/75017/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-too-many-social-networks
DJ Waldow
Dir of Community at Blue Sky Factory
@djwaldow
Posted by: DJ Waldow | August 07, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Ha, great stuff! I actually wrote a post on a similar note enjoying the whole experience... What You Missed While Twitter Was Down. You guys have an awesome catalog of articles and ideas!!
Posted by: Brandon Cox | August 07, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Super stuff! Love reading all your posts. Thanks for all the great information.
Posted by: Pushan | August 07, 2009 at 10:48 AM
I was actually worried a bit yesterday.
Not so much that I couldn't share random thoughts during the day or otherwise continue to voice my unhappiness with this cash for clunkers, broken window, failure, but that I recognized I've come to know quite a few really good people through Twitter and some, it seems, only participate through that medium.
Most of the people with whom I engage have their own sites and I'm likely already subscribed to their feeds, but it sure would be nice if someone came up with an app that, instead of promising eleventy-billion followers a day by DM, actually backed up a list of people you follow and their profiles, so you could contact them no matter what.
In the meantime, I think I'll see about reminding people that, even if they don't have their own website, using the URL field in their bio to tell others where they can be found online, away from Twitter, could be a good way to strengthen those connections.
Posted by: Brian DR1665 | August 07, 2009 at 12:28 PM
The only thing I really missed when Twitter was down was #Kaizenblog. I'd just about finished my early twitter fix at 6am when the stream stopped.
In order to not get totally consumed by Twitter#Chats, I am selecting 3 /week :-) #Blogchat, #Kaizenblog as these address my current interest (obsession) of blogging, and one other to vary. So I was REALLY geared up to go when I sighed into #Kaizenblog :-) love it and find it very helpful. @CASUDI
Posted by: CASUDI | August 07, 2009 at 01:02 PM
Social Media Commando admits nothing (Wink/Smile).
Posted by: Social Media Commando | August 07, 2009 at 03:19 PM
Thank you all for the great comments! I confess I also thought that it would be neat to have conversations back at blogs - longer form comments, answering each other's comments (Beth does that very well), expanding the thinking (Brian is a master at that). The post by Brandon was hilarious, thank you for sharing! DJ, Pushan, Joe, good of you joining in the fun. Caroline, so sorry we missed the chat.
Posted by: Valeria Maltoni | August 08, 2009 at 03:02 PM
Oh my -- I just HAD to add "social mediapocalypse" to the Marketing Addictionary! (http://words.marketingprofs.com)
Posted by: Ann Handley | August 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM