I don’t know about you guys, but I think Twitter is a wee bit crowded these days. Remember the days where NO ONE had over 10,000 followers? Or when we all weren’t drowning in a sea of spammers?

Lately, I’ve been seeing people posting in their facebook status “Follow me on twitter.com/sceneusername”. These are the same people up until recently were still stuck on their myspace account in 2005, and the same ones who post pictures of themselves getting drunk every weekend. Granted, not all of them are. But mostly.

I consider Twitter to be a confluence of knowledge and resources. It was an excellent way for me to connect with people in Chicago when I moved here. If I have a question and post it on twitter, I know I’ll get a reply. It’s not just about how I use it either. How many people use twitter as part of their job?

We can thank all the celebrities adopting twitter for the sudden popularity. Does anyone else find this annoying as I do? If I wanted to know the goings on in a celebrity’s life, I’d just go to PerezHilton to read about it (which I do). Celebrities and the riff raff of myspace have no idea that Twitter is supposed to be a community. It is a place for people to share ideas and communicate with one another. It seems like those days are starting to fade. It is a sad day when you begin to realize Twitter is the new Myspace.

Can the nerds/geeks/bloggers have our little piece of the internet back?!

Update on the Twitter crisis: I woke up this afternoon to a stream of txts from Twitter!!

Although this pleased me, I was also confused since I deleted my number and had not tried to reactivate it since the failed attempts this morning. So of course I log onto Twitter and reactivate my number and SUCCESS!

I am overjoyed.All is well once again in the universe. There will be no ugly divorce.

Maggie+Twitter=<3

Everyone who knows me knows how much I love Twitter. Its the perfect way of communicating things to your friends in 140 characters or less. But one of the main reasons I love Twitter so much is because I can do many things via SMS like send updates, receive friends’ updates, direct messages and so forth. This is probably the feature I love the most about Twitter because even if I can’t be in front of the computer 24/7, I am still updated as to what is going on while I’m away. 

Sure, sometimes all those updates can get annoying, but to be honest the SMS updates are what keeps me from using other platforms such as Jaiku and Pownce more readily.

So, what is with the title breaking up if all I’m doing is raving about their service? Well, here’s the thing: Twitter has been having a lot of problems lately, causing many avid users like myself many frustrations. In the past few days Twitter has been seeming to be more on track. I thought these frustrations were drawing to a close until today, when I deleted my mobile number from the SMS updates. I did this mainly because I thought maybe if I deleted it and then reactivated it, I would solve the SMS issues I was having. I ended up creating more of a headache. Instead of a quick reactivation like I had hoped for, I am now unable to reactivate my number for reasons unknown. I have attempted several times, with different verification codes with no success. I’m stressed: I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, I can’t stop worrying about not getting updates (okay exaggerating just a little there). 

So I do the next logical thing. I cry and stomp my feet and email Twitter Support for help. So now I keep my fingers crossed and pray to the Twitter gods to please be kind and give me back my SMS updates.

So now comes the even more frustrating, agonizing part: waiting. Will I get my SMS updates back or will I be forced to break up with Twitter as I keep threatening? After all, wouldn’t I be crazy to stay in a relationship in which I was no longer happy?

Twitter, if I can’t have you with SMS updates despite your quirks, then maybe I don’t want you at all.